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Middle of the pack
Beat 62% of Show HN launches that day
#59 of 164 on Nov 4
#3 of 8 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Nov 4. 4.3% of Games & Entertainment launches (2 of 47) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Games & Entertainment →
points · traction gained Nov 9, 10:27 UTC → Nov 10, 10:45 UTC · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 154h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 4, 00:59 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 3points
- Comments
- 8
- 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
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 3Nov 4, 21:23 UTC
- Last reading
- 3Nov 10, 10:45 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 154h
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Top on Nov 4 · 164 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1A decent text-to-image model trained for ~$20K (Apache 2.0 Weights)286 points
- #2After a decade of reversing, I got co-op working in DOS Wing Commander256 points
- #3Vegetable Gardening for Engineers217 points
- #4I built a tool that prices a pre-built PC part by part122 points
- #5Kino AI (YC S23)AI media manager and video editor112 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
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Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Not re-read in the latest run, so no recent gain
Velocity
B0.06 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 67% · vs 248 Games & Entertainment · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
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Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
——
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #59 of 164 Show HN launches on 2026-11-04
- #57A live-built agent newsroom for tracking midterms today3 points
- #58Rendering 3D Models in the Terminal3 points
- #59Retro3 points
- #60Amigent3 points
- #61Multiplayer context3 points
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Data as of Nov 13, 2026, 9:22 AM UTC. Sector comes from keyword rules on the title and tagline and can be wrong. How it works