AI tools launched on Sunday, Sep 20, 2026
Products whose own page puts AI at the core of what they do, not products that merely mention it. Every number below was measured inside that day's window.
Sunday in numbers
Sunday, Sep 20, 2026- 232 products appeared across 7 public launch boards. We have read 232 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
- Attention did not spread out: the busiest 23 products took 82.8% of the 1,830 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
- 13 of the 223 products on a board that publishes votes (5.8%) had not received a single one when we counted.
- More of the day was aimed at consumers: 75 products said they sell to consumers and 69 said they sell to businesses, out of 193 that named a buyer at all.
- Nothing owns the words founders use for themselves: of the 222 products that named what they are, only 8 phrases were used by more than one of them, and the most common ("AI assistant") by just 5. Against the 10 days before, "AI assistant" gained the most ground.
- 122 products printed a price. The middle one asks $10, and 24 of the printed price points were $0.
- 59 launch pages (25.4%) called the product the best, the first or the only one of its kind.
Every sentence above is assembled from a measurement made when this page was built. No number on this page is typed by hand, and no product is named: the report is counts only.
Was this a normal day?
Each measure against the 10 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.What the day leaned on
Products and platforms named on the launch page. Each one is also a dependency: if that API changes, this many pages have to change with it.
- Stripe11.2%26
- Claude8.6%20
- ChatGPT7.8%18
- Google7.8%18
- OpenAI6.9%16
- Gemini5.6%13
- Instagram5.6%13
- Claude Code4.7%11
- Cursor4.7%11
- Shopify4.3%10
- Anthropic3.9%9
- DeepSeek3.9%9
- Telegram3.9%9
- TikTok3.9%9
223 products named at least one other product or platform.
Where it runs
Cloud, on the user's own machine, or self-hosted on the buyer's server.
- cloud / hosted72.4%168
- on the device, offline19.0%44
- self-hosted5.2%12
What size of company
Who the page says it is sized for. A page can name more than one.
- small businesses20.3%47
- solo / indie15.9%37
- teams14.7%34
- enterprise5.6%13
What the launch pages claimed
Three buckets, never two: says yes, says no, says nothing. Silence is not a no.
- Has a free plan62.1%
- Puts a number on the page40.5%
- Asks you to contact sales26.3%
- Calls itself the best / the first25.4%
- Has documentation23.7%
- Shows a case study4.3%
- Is open source4.3%
- Shows customer logos3.9%
- Says it is hiring3.9%
Every yes here is backed by a quote from the product's own page; a claim without one is not counted.
How the day's attention was shared out
1,830 votes across 223 products that appeared on a board which publishes votes.
The dashed line is what an even day would look like. The gap between the two is the day's inequality.
- top 10%82.8%1,515
- 10–20%5.0%91
- 20–30%2.7%50
- 30–40%2.4%44
- 40–50%1.8%33
- 50–60%1.2%22
- 60–70%1.2%22
- 70–80%1.2%22
- 80–90%1.2%22
- 90–100%0.5%9
Votes keep arriving after a product appears, so a fresh day is still filling up and an older one is closer to final. The measure is the sum of a product's votes across every vote-publishing board it was on that day, which is why the deciles add up to the day's total exactly.
What kind of thing it is
A product can be more than one of these — a web app with a mobile client counts in both — so the shares add up past 100%.
- web56.9%132
- mobile19.8%46
- api9.9%23
- desktop7.8%18
- extension4.3%10
- cli3.4%8
- bot2.2%5
Read from each product's own pages, not from the board's category.
Who it sells to
One hundred squares are the whole day. The grey squares are products that said nothing about a buyer, and the palest are the ones we have not finished reading.
- consumers32.3%75
- businesses29.7%69
- businesses and consumers12.5%29
- developers8.6%20
- Read, said nothing16.8%39
What the day charged
122 products printed at least one price. Bands hold the lower bound and exclude the upper: $10–29 means $10 up to but not including $30.
- $0100.0%14
- $9942.9%6
- $1935.7%5
- $0 /month21.4%3
- $0/month21.4%3
- $19.99/month21.4%3
- $300/month21.4%3
- $4.9921.4%3
- $99/mo21.4%3
- $0 forever14.3%2
- $0/mo14.3%2
- $10 /mo14.3%2
Prices in a currency other than the dollar are not converted; they are counted as unparsed and shown below. Making up an exchange rate on a page whose whole claim is measurement would be the most expensive kind of mistake here.
What the free tier is
Free forever, free up to a limit, or free for a while.
- free forever40.5%94
- free up to a limit16.4%38
- free for a trial7.8%18
- Read, said nothing35.3%82
What the trial asks for
What stands between a visitor and the product on the first click.
- nothing46.6%108
- an email address17.2%40
- a card3.0%7
- no trial0.4%1
Whether the page says we or I
Whether the launch page speaks as a company or as one person.
- “we”79.7%185
- “I”7.8%18
This is what the page calls itself, not what we know about the team: a one-person company can still write "we". It is a floor on how many are solo, never a count of them.
What founders called their own product
The short phrase each page uses for itself. Plurals and capitalisation are folded together; nothing else is. This is the closest thing we have to a search term, and it arrives earlier than one: a founder starts building when they see the need, a search happens once the product exists.
- 1AI assistant2.2%+1.8 pts · ▲5
- 2marketplace1.3%+1.1 pts · ▲9
- 3platform1.3%+0.5 pts · ▼2
- 4AI sales agent0.9%new
- 5AI video generator0.9%+0.1 pts · ▼3
- 6business management software0.9%new
- 7legal intelligence platform0.9%new
- 8library0.9%new
- 1AI assistant2.2%+1.8 pts · ▲5
- 2marketplace1.3%+1.1 pts · ▲9
- 3platform1.3%+0.5 pts · ▼2
- 5AI video generator0.9%+0.1 pts · ▼3
222 products named what they are. 8 phrases were used by more than one of them, after folding plurals and capitalisation; everything else in the day was said once and is not listed.
Movement is measured as a share of each day's own cohort against the 10 days before, never as a raw count: as the corpus grows, every raw count rises and the page would read as if everything were trending. "New" means the term was below the threshold in those days, which is a warning and not a finding.
Where it was published
App stores, extension stores and package registries named on the page.
- App Store12.1%28
- Play Store9.9%23
- Chrome Web Store3.9%9
- WhatsApp1.3%3
- npm1.3%3
- Instagram0.9%2
- Shopify App Store0.9%2
- Telegram0.9%2
55 products named a store or registry. The rest ship from their own site.
Who they said it was for
The audience named on the page, in the page's own words.
- 1developers4.7%+0.9 pts · ▲1
- 2creators4.3%+0.2 pts · ▼1
- 3founders4.3%+1.1 pts
- 4marketers3.0%+1.2 pts · ▲1
- 5agencies2.6%+0.7 pts · ▼1
- 6researchers2.2%+1.4 pts · ▲4
- 7students2.2%+0.4 pts · ▼1
- 8coaches1.3%+0.9 pts · ▲15
- 9designers0.9%no change
- 10e-commerce sellers0.9%+0.7 pts
- 11freelancers0.9%-0.7 pts · ▼4
- 12makers0.9%+0.7 pts
- 13parents0.9%+0.4 pts · ▲7
- 14publishers0.9%+0.8 pts
102 products named what they are. 17 phrases were used by more than one of them, after folding plurals and capitalisation; everything else in the day was said once and is not listed.
Movement is measured as a share of each day's own cohort against the 10 days before, never as a raw count: as the corpus grows, every raw count rises and the page would read as if everything were trending. "New" means the term was below the threshold in those days, which is a warning and not a finding.
What the day was built with
Read from the live sites themselves, not from a survey: the analytics tag, the host's fingerprint, the payment script.
- Vercel100.0%7
- WordPress71.4%5
- Netlify28.6%2
- Shopify28.6%2
17 sites showed one
- Google Analytics100.0%73
- Plausible2.7%2
- PostHog2.7%2
75 sites showed one
- Gumroad100.0%3
- Stripe100.0%3
- Paddle66.7%2
- razorpay66.7%2
10 sites showed one
Only what a page reveals about itself can be seen here, so this is a floor and not a census. A site behind a proxy or with no tag shows nothing and is not counted as "none".
Where the day was launched from
The place printed on the page — a company address, a legal footer, a founder's line.
- India25.0%6
- United States25.0%6
- France16.7%4
- Canada8.3%2
- Germany8.3%2
- Singapore8.3%2
- United Kingdom8.3%2
24 of the 75 pages that printed a place named somewhere we could resolve to a country. The rest named a city we do not map, a region ("EU"), or nothing that resolves; they are excluded rather than guessed at.
Which boards the day came from
A product can appear on more than one board, so the column adds up past the day's total. Vote counts are read now, not at launch time.
| Board | Products | Share of day | Votes | Per product | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 170 | 73.3% | 1,474 | 8.7 | 1 |
| PeerPush | 23 | 9.9% | 78 | 3.4 | 3 |
| Uneed | 22 | 9.5% | 125 | 5.7 | 1 |
| BetaList | 9 | 3.9% | — | — | — |
| Fazier | 5 | 2.2% | 137 | 27.4 | 19 |
| MicroLaunch | 3 | 1.3% | 16 | 5.3 | 3 |
| Tiny Startups | 2 | 0.9% | 0 | 0.0 | 0 |
Some boards publish a rank but no votes; those rows show a dash. An absent vote count is not a zero.
What it is about
The subject axis, assigned by a separate reading pass.
- Tools for making video5.2%12
- Tools for answering customers automatically4.7%11
- Tools for managing a sales pipeline3.4%8
- Tools for finding and reaching prospects3.4%8
- Tools for being found by AI search3.0%7
- Tools for building and consuming APIs3.0%7
- Tools for transcription and dictation3.0%7
- Tools for online sellers3.0%7
- Tools for SEO and site audits2.6%6
- Tools for working with AI coding agents2.6%6
- Tools for agencies and freelancers2.2%5
- Tools for exam preparation2.2%5
This axis is filled by its own pass, not by the main reading queue, so its coverage moves on its own schedule.
How many are still answering
1 day after the day closed, we asked every one of them again.
The denominator leaves out the ones we could not reach: a product behind a bot wall is not a dead product. Calling it dead would be the cheapest way to make this number look decisive and the fastest way to make it wrong.
How this issue was made
- The window
- One UTC day: Sunday, Sep 20, 2026. A product belongs to the day its board says it launched, not the day our collector reached it — otherwise the report would print our own crawl speed as market news.
- The publishing gate
- A day is published only once the collector has run the morning after it, which is when that day's boards are read. Days without that run are not published and not quietly padded. 232 products cleared the minimum of 40.
- Where the answers come from
- Each product's own pages are read and answered question by question, with a quote required for every yes. 232 of 232 products were read all the way through before this issue was built.
- What is not here
- No product names, no rankings, no scores. A block whose cohort was read less than 70% of the way through is not printed at all, and says so where it would have been.