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Beat 56% of Show HN launches that day
#56 of 141 on Oct 23
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points · since listing → Oct 24, 13:53 UTC
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Oct 30, 19:27 UTC).
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Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in SECR this week
- #12of 30 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #280of 954 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 21.7%5/23 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 2Oct 24, 13:53 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Oct 24, 13:53 UTC
- Readings
- 1over 18h
Launch-day race · #56 of 141 Show HN launches on 2026-10-23
- #54Build a wonky machine, a pixel-art physics puzzle2 points
- #55Argus2 points
- #56MXValidation2 points
- #57I made a professional audio time-stretcher in Go2 points
- #58The cost of slop. Subscription-adjusted2 points
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