Ostdb, an open database of official video game soundtrack
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Beat 21% of Show HN launches that day
#71 of 109 on Nov 6
#8 of 10 Games & Entertainment launches on Show HN on Nov 6. 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 · % shown only when the previous traction was 5+
Traction frozen — tracking ended at 144h after listing. Show HN votes are re-read for ~168h.
comments
listed Nov 6, 10:48 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 2points
- Comments
- 0
- Rank in GAME this week
- #22of 59 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #339of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 4.3%2/47 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 1Nov 6, 17:32 UTC
- Last reading
- 2Nov 12, 10:31 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 144h
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Top on Nov 6 · 109 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1CloneGuardScan a repo for credential-stealing tricks before it runs31 points
- #2Agents infer Lego mechanisms from sources, then animate them31 points
- #3Agentic Identity Broker, OAuth Delegation for AI Agents25 points
- #4An open source webbluetooth and NFC browser for iOS15 points
- #5AegisKernelZero-trust POSIX runtime for AI agents in <0.016ms14 points
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- 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
C0.04 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 48% · vs 248 Games & Entertainment · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
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 · #71 of 109 Show HN launches on 2026-11-06
- #69PentestCanvas2 points
- #70Breath Harbor2 points
- #71Ostdb, an open database of official video game soundtrack2 points
- #72Liner Notes2 points
- #73flashjson2 points
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