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Beat 91% of Show HN launches that day
#9 of 112 on Nov 7
#1 of 4 Data & Infrastructure launches on Show HN on Nov 7. 12.2% of Data & Infrastructure launches (6 of 49) reached 10+ points in the last 7 days. See Data & Infrastructure →
points · traction gained Nov 12, 10:31 UTC → Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
Still tracked: re-read by each daily run while under ~168h old (window closes ~Nov 14, 00:26 UTC).
comments · buzz 0 in latest interval
listed Nov 7, 00:26 UTC
Traction (points) over time
Key statistics
- Traction
- 9points
- Comments
- 3
- Rank in INFR this week
- #6of 47 HN
- Rank overall this week
- #63of 1,038 HN
- Sector hit rate
- 12.2%6/49 · 7D
- Traction line
- Below10+ points
- First reading
- 7Nov 7, 13:58 UTC
- Last reading
- 9Nov 13, 10:27 UTC
- Readings
- 7over 154h
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Top on Nov 7 · 112 Show HN launches that day, by points
- #1Coldframe, a honeypot that poses as a supermarket fridge controller289 points
- #2We compressed a 31B video+audio diffusion model to 14B, 6 steps, INT884 points
- #3Where Were We58 points
- #4JavaScript web apps with WASM layout and GPU rendering in 280 KB46 points
- #5An offline desktop companion to help maintain a healthy blink rhythm40 points
More in Data & Infrastructure · top Show HN launches, last 7 days
- A 15 MB self-hosted Netflix and Spotify for your media server168 points▲ +1
- I created a library for correctly using SQLite in Go programs23 points▲ +2
- MapleSub-2-BPW Moe Pruning to Run Gemma 4 26B at 45 TPS on a 6GB GPU21 points0
- Daily GPU Rental Prices Across AWS, Azure, RunPod and Vast.ai15 points0
- Pgxioa tiny PostgreSQL layer inside Nginx10 points0
Grades · each graded against other Data & Infrastructure launches from the same source
Momentum
C+0 points
Traction gained in the latest daily interval
Better than 45% · vs 39 still-tracked Data & Infrastructure · Show HN launches
Velocity
A0.19 points/h
Votes per hour since listing (age capped at 48h)
Better than 88% · vs 201 Data & Infrastructure · Show HN launches, last 30 days
Engagement
——
Comments per 10 points
Needs 10+ points; below that the ratio is mostly noise
Staying Power
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Votes at last reading ÷ votes at first reading
Needs 10+ points and readings from two runs
Launch-day race · #9 of 112 Show HN launches on 2026-11-07
- #7Backwords13 points
- #8Logo Deal10 points
- #9Goethe9 points
- #10An online shop where your friends can hurry the courier7 points
- #11I built ivyNote, a local-first Markdown notes app6 points
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