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Beacon Scout

Bluetooth & BLE Scanner/ Tracker

HDWRHardware & IoT·PHProduct Hunt

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2+2IPO

votes · since listing → Oct 18, 13:29 UTC

Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~48h old (window closes ~Oct 20, 07:01 UTC).

comments · buzz +1 in latest interval

listed Oct 18, 07:01 UTC

Traction (votes) over time

1 reading (one per daily ingest run). Dots are recorded values; lines just connect them — nothing in between is measured.

Key statistics

Traction: 2votes
Comments
Rank in HDWR this week: #14of 93 PH
Rank overall this week: #851of 6,772 PH
Sector hit rate: 3.6%3/83 · 7D
Traction line: Below10+ votes
First reading: 2Oct 18, 13:29 UTC
Last reading: 2Oct 18, 13:29 UTC
Readings: 1over 6h

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Data as of Oct 18, 2026, 12:36 PM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works