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Beat 97% of Show HN launches that day
#5 of 188 on Nov 3
#2 of 15 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Nov 3. 4.3% of Games & Entertainment launches (2 of 47) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Games & Entertainment →
points · traction gained Nov 8, 12:36 UTC → Nov 9, 10:27 UTC
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 151h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 3, 03:10 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 72points
- Comments
- 57
- Rank in GAME this week
- —not listed in the last 7 days
- Rank overall this week
- —
- Sector hit rate
- 4.3%2/47 · 7D
- Traction line
- Hit10+ points
- First reading
- 70Nov 4, 21:23 UTC
- Last reading
- 72Nov 9, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 6over 151h
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Top on Nov 3 · 188 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1HackerTVHN's most-recommended Youtube videos as 24/7 TV channels488 points
- #2Hacker Times, a New York Times-inspired version of Hacker News475 points
- #3Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie127 points
- #4KairosOpen-source risk and fraud decisioning platform107 points
- #6HackerChurnwhich SaaS tools HN wants to cancel71 points
More in Games & Entertainment · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- Ghanaian street games you can play in the browser115 points0
- Fable52.gamesPlay and inspect Fable 5.2 single-file HTML games68 points▲ +68
- My daily word puzzle Jointter revisited9 points0
- Jigwise, free jigsaw puzzles in the browser8 points▲ +8
- Totle, daily math puzzle game; Saturday puzzles have the fewest answers7 points0
Grades · each graded against other Games & Entertainment launches from the same source
Momentum
——
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
A1.50 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 96% · vs 248 Games & Entertainment · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
—7.9 per 10 points
Comments per 10 points
Too few peers to grade (18; need 20)
Staying Power
—1.0×
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Too few peers to grade (18; need 20)
Launch-day race · #5 of 188 Show HN launches on 2026-11-03
- #3Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie127 points
- #4Kairos107 points
- #5I built a little browser game to practice Vim commands72 points
- #6HackerChurn71 points
- #7Tmux-restore saves tmux windows and agent sessions across reboots62 points
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