Firenook
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Breakout launch
Beat 99% of Show HN launches that day
#1 of 182 on Nov 5
#1 of 8 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Nov 5. 4.3% of Games & Entertainment launches (2 of 47) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Games & Entertainment →
points · traction gained Nov 11, 10:42 UTC → Nov 12, 10:31 UTC
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 165h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 5, 13:07 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 176points
- Comments
- 30
- 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
- 2Nov 5, 18:13 UTC
- Last reading
- 176Nov 12, 10:31 UTC
- Readings
- 8over 165h
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Top on Nov 5 · 182 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #2Rivet (YC W23)Scale and Orchestrate Agents on S3122 points
- #3Stroqa local audit of what your coding agent did and why96 points
- #4WaymarkA workflow engine that compiles jobs instead of replaying88 points
- #5Spindlea full-featured, type-safe web framework for OCaml 564 points
- #6TubeHausan open-source YouTube client with no Google account21 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
A3.67 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 99% · vs 248 Games & Entertainment · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
—1.7 per 10 points
Comments per 10 points
Too few peers to grade (18; need 20)
Staying Power
—88.0×
Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Too few peers to grade (18; need 20)
Launch-day race · #1 of 182 Show HN launches on 2026-11-05
- #1Firenook176 points
- #2Rivet (YC W23)122 points
- #3Stroq96 points
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