Saturday in numbers

Saturday, Sep 19, 2026
  • 190 products appeared across 6 public launch boards. We have read 190 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 19 products took 73.9% of the 824 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 16 of the 183 products on a board that publishes votes (8.7%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 54.2% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 22.6% never mention it at all.
  • 112 products printed a price. The middle one asks $30, and 6 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 55 launch pages (28.9%) 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.
Products
19040
12610 days before348
how big the day was
Boards writing
61
510 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
4.32.7
5.310 days before14.4
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
54.2%2.7 pts
49.4%10 days before62.4%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
65.8%▲ +5.2 pts
51.3%10 days before64.8%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
15.8%▲ +5.8 pts
7.6%10 days before11.3%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
47.4%4.2 pts
41.3%10 days before55.2%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
28.9%▲ +2.9 pts
18.4%10 days before32.0%
share of the day's cohort

What size of company

Who the page says it is sized for. A page can name more than one.

that day
  • small businesses58.9%112
  • teams24.2%46
  • enterprise16.8%32
  • solo / indie14.2%27
152 said38 read, said nothing= 190 products

What the day charged

112 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.

that day
6
9
29
31
14
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$30
Middle price point
112
Printed a price
58.9% of the day
2
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $19/month100.0%7
  • $29/month85.7%6
  • $25/month57.1%4
  • $49/month57.1%4
  • $99/month57.1%4
  • $042.9%3
  • $0/month42.9%3
  • $129/mo42.9%3
  • $299/mo42.9%3
  • $30/month42.9%3
  • $39/month42.9%3
  • $49/mo42.9%3

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 launch pages claimed

Three buckets, never two: says yes, says no, says nothing. Silence is not a no.

that day
  • Asks you to contact sales56.3%
  • Puts a number on the page49.5%
  • Has a free plan47.4%
  • Calls itself the best / the first28.9%
  • Has documentation23.2%
  • Shows a case study13.2%
  • Shows customer logos8.4%
  • Is open source7.4%
  • Says it is hiring6.3%
says yessays nosays nothingnot read yet

Every yes here is backed by a quote from the product's own page; a claim without one is not counted.

Where it runs

Cloud, on the user's own machine, or self-hosted on the buyer's server.

that day
  • cloud / hosted71.6%136
  • on the device, offline12.1%23
  • self-hosted6.8%13
164 said26 read, said nothing= 190 products

How the day's attention was shared out

824 votes across 183 products that appeared on a board which publishes votes.

today
0%50%100%top 10%50%100%

The dashed line is what an even day would look like. The gap between the two is the day's inequality.

1
Median product
votes it ended on
4.5
Mean product
pulled up by the top
73.9%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
16
Got nothing
8.7% of them
  • top 10%73.9%609
  • 10–20%6.1%50
  • 20–30%4.6%38
  • 30–40%4.2%35
  • 40–50%2.2%18
  • 50–60%2.2%18
  • 60–70%2.2%18
  • 70–80%2.2%18
  • 80–90%2.2%18
  • 90–100%0.2%2

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%.

that day
  • web65.8%125
  • mobile15.8%30
  • desktop8.4%16
  • api7.9%15
  • extension3.2%6
  • bot2.1%4
  • cli1.6%3
162 said28 read, said nothing= 190 products

Read from each product's own pages, not from the board's category.

What AI does in it

Whether AI is the product, a feature beside it, unmentioned, or explicitly ruled out.

that day
  • core to the product54.2%103
  • not mentioned22.6%43
  • a side feature13.2%25
  • explicitly no AI1.1%2
  • Read, said nothing8.9%17

"Never mentions it" is an absence of a claim, not a claim of absence. The two are counted separately here because conflating them once produced a headline that was wrong by two orders of magnitude.

What the free tier is

Free forever, free up to a limit, or free for a while.

that day
  • free forever24.7%47
  • free for a trial14.2%27
  • free up to a limit11.1%21
  • Read, said nothing50.0%95

What the trial asks for

What stands between a visitor and the product on the first click.

that day
  • nothing32.1%61
  • an email address11.1%21
  • a card2.1%4
  • no trial1.1%2
88 said102 read, said nothing= 190 products

Whether the page says we or I

Whether the launch page speaks as a company or as one person.

that day
  • “we”87.9%167
  • “I”5.3%10
177 said13 read, said nothing= 190 products

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.

that day
Most said
  1. 1platform1.6%+0.5 pts
  2. 2AI workspace1.1%+0.7 pts · ▲4
  3. 3digital marketing agency1.1%+0.9 pts · ▲11
  4. 4plataforma1.1%new
Gained the most ground
  1. 2AI workspace1.1%+0.7 pts · ▲4
  2. 1platform1.6%+0.5 pts

179 products named what they are. 4 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 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.

that day
  • Stripe12.1%23
  • Google8.9%17
  • Claude5.8%11
  • ChatGPT5.3%10
  • Instagram5.3%10
  • WooCommerce4.2%8
  • WordPress4.2%8
  • Anthropic3.7%7
  • Shopify3.7%7
  • WhatsApp3.7%7
  • Cloudflare3.2%6
  • Facebook3.2%6
  • Gemini3.2%6
  • OpenAI3.2%6

153 products named at least one other product or platform.

Who they said it was for

The audience named on the page, in the page's own words.

that day
Most said
  1. 1founders5.8%+0.4 pts
  2. 2freelancers3.7%+0.8 pts · ▲1
  3. 3creators2.1%+0.5 pts · ▲3
  4. 4agencies1.6%-3.1 pts · ▼2
  5. 5engineers1.6%+0.8 pts · ▲5
  6. 6marketers1.6%-0.1 pts · ▼1
  7. 7consultants1.1%-0.2 pts
  8. 8indie hackers1.1%+0.7 pts
  9. 9owners1.1%+0.7 pts · ▲21
  10. 10product managers1.1%+0.7 pts
  11. 11recruiters1.1%+0.5 pts · ▲4
  12. 12sales teams1.1%+0.3 pts · ▼1
  13. 13teams1.1%+0.4 pts

104 products named what they are. 13 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.

today
Built with
  • WordPress100.0%14
  • Wix21.4%3
  • Framer14.3%2
  • GitHub Pages14.3%2

23 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%66

68 sites showed one

Payments
  • Stripe100.0%2

4 sites showed one

Auth
  • Supabase100.0%3

3 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.

that day
  • India39.3%11
  • United Kingdom14.3%4
  • Poland10.7%3
  • United Arab Emirates10.7%3
  • United States10.7%3
  • Pakistan7.1%2
  • Türkiye7.1%2

28 of the 97 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.

today
BoardProductsShare of dayVotesPer productMedian
Product Hunt14877.9%6504.41
Uneed189.5%372.10
PeerPush115.8%353.22
BetaList73.7%
Tiny Startups42.1%71.81
Fazier21.1%9547.548

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.

that day
  • Tools for online sellers6.3%12
  • Tools for stock and inventory5.8%11
  • Tools for managing a sales pipeline5.8%11
  • Tools for SEO and site audits4.7%9
  • Tools for answering customers automatically4.7%9
  • Tools for being found by AI search4.2%8
  • Tools for restaurants and cafes3.7%7
  • Tools for agencies and freelancers3.7%7
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking3.7%7
  • Tools for property and rentals3.7%7
  • Tools for contracts and legal research3.2%6
  • Tools for launching and getting listed3.2%6

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

2 days after the day closed, we asked every one of them again.

today
100.0%
Still answering
189 of 189
0
Went quiet
1
Could not reach
left out of the rate
Too young to mean much yet: almost nothing dies in its first month. The reading worth waiting for is this cohort at thirty days.

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: Saturday, Sep 19, 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. 190 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. 190 of 190 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.