Tuesday in numbers

Tuesday, Sep 8, 2026
  • 534 products appeared across 7 public launch boards. We have read 534 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 53 products took 58.8% of the 1,542 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 10 of the 529 products on a board that publishes votes (1.9%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 36.3% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 29.6% never mention it at all.
  • Nothing owns the words founders use for themselves: of the 505 products that named what they are, only 16 phrases were used by more than one of them, and the most common ("app") by just 9. Against the 7 days before, "app" gained the most ground.
  • 145 products printed a price. The middle one asks $6.99, and 19 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 109 launch pages (20.4%) 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 7 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.
Products
534▲ +251
2387 days before502
how big the day was
Boards writing
7= 0
57 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
2.90.7
2.77 days before4.5
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
36.3%▲ +2.7 pts
29.1%7 days before40.8%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
56.6%▲ +3.0 pts
51.6%7 days before60.2%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
33.5%▲ +3.5 pts
26.1%7 days before35.7%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
65.2%▲ +1.4 pts
57.4%7 days before67.8%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
20.4%0.8 pts
19.3%7 days before25.6%
share of the day's cohort

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
  • web56.6%302
  • mobile33.5%179
  • desktop7.5%40
  • extension4.3%23
  • bot2.6%14
  • cli0.2%1
498 said36 read, said nothing= 534 products

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

Where it was published

App stores, extension stores and package registries named on the page.

that day
  • App Store21.2%113
  • Play Store16.9%90
  • Chrome Web Store3.4%18
  • Microsoft Store0.6%3
  • Telegram0.4%2

190 products named a store or registry. The rest ship from their own site.

What size of company

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

that day
  • solo / indie8.8%47
  • small businesses3.0%16
  • teams2.1%11
62 said472 read, said nothing= 534 products

What the day charged

145 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
19
49
25
10
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$6.99
Middle price point
145
Printed a price
27.2% of the day
0
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $0100.0%10
  • $9.99100.0%10
  • $2.9980.0%8
  • $14.9950.0%5
  • $19.9950.0%5
  • $4.9950.0%5
  • $29.9940.0%4
  • $3.9940.0%4
  • $0 forever30.0%3
  • $130.0%3
  • $1.9930.0%3
  • $2930.0%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.

How the day's attention was shared out

1,542 votes across 529 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
2.9
Mean product
pulled up by the top
58.8%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
10
Got nothing
1.9% of them
  • top 10%58.8%906
  • 10–20%8.3%128
  • 20–30%6.9%106
  • 30–40%6.2%95
  • 40–50%3.4%53
  • 50–60%3.4%53
  • 60–70%3.4%53
  • 70–80%3.4%53
  • 80–90%3.4%53
  • 90–100%2.7%42

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 AI does in it

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

that day
  • core to the product36.3%194
  • not mentioned29.6%158
  • a side feature7.9%42
  • explicitly no AI0.4%2
  • Read, said nothing25.8%138

"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.

Where it runs

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

that day
  • cloud / hosted51.5%275
  • on the device, offline39.1%209
  • self-hosted0.2%1
472 said62 read, said nothing= 534 products

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free forever49.3%263
  • free up to a limit12.2%65
  • free for a trial6.4%34
  • Read, said nothing32.2%172

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing54.7%292
  • an email address5.2%28
  • a card1.9%10
  • no trial0.4%2
332 said202 read, said nothing= 534 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”67.8%362
  • “I”9.4%50
412 said122 read, said nothing= 534 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. 1app1.7%+0.8 pts · ▲1
  2. 2directory0.9%+0.8 pts
  3. 3marketplace0.7%+0.5 pts · ▲17
  4. 4platform0.7%-0.3 pts · ▼3
  5. 5tool0.7%+0.1 pts · ▼1
  6. 6AI companion0.6%+0.3 pts · ▲9
  7. 7utility0.6%+0.1 pts · ▼1
  8. 8AI assistant0.4%+0.1 pts · ▲6
  9. 9budgeting app0.4%+0.3 pts
  10. 10crypto portfolio tracker0.4%new
  11. 11health & fitness0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲14
  12. 12invoice maker0.4%new
  13. 13journal0.4%+0.3 pts
  14. 14music player0.4%new
Gained the most ground
  1. 1app1.7%+0.8 pts · ▲1
  2. 3marketplace0.7%+0.5 pts · ▲17
  3. 6AI companion0.6%+0.3 pts · ▲9
  4. 8AI assistant0.4%+0.1 pts · ▲6
  5. 7utility0.6%+0.1 pts · ▼1
  6. 5tool0.7%+0.1 pts · ▼1

505 products named what they are. 16 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 7 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 launch pages claimed

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

that day
  • Has a free plan65.2%
  • Puts a number on the page33.3%
  • Calls itself the best / the first20.4%
  • Has documentation12.2%
  • Asks you to contact sales10.1%
  • Is open source3.7%
  • Shows a case study2.6%
  • Says it is hiring1.3%
  • Shows customer logos1.1%
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.

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
  • iPhone9.6%51
  • Android9.4%50
  • Instagram7.5%40
  • App Store5.8%31
  • iOS4.5%24
  • Facebook4.3%23
  • iPad4.3%23
  • Google4.1%22
  • LinkedIn3.7%20
  • ChatGPT3.4%18
  • YouTube3.4%18
  • Stripe3.2%17
  • TikTok3.2%17
  • macOS3.0%16

475 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. 1creators2.6%-0.9 pts
  2. 2students2.6%-0.9 pts
  3. 3freelancers2.1%+0.8 pts · ▲1
  4. 4traders0.9%+0.3 pts · ▲7
  5. 5coaches0.7%+0.4 pts · ▲13
  6. 6couples0.6%new
  7. 7founders0.6%-1.0 pts · ▼4
  8. 8parents0.6%-0.1 pts · ▲2
  9. 9teachers0.6%-0.2 pts
  10. 10developers0.4%-0.8 pts · ▼5
  11. 11educators0.4%+0.3 pts
  12. 12families0.4%+0.2 pts
  13. 13home cooks0.4%+0.2 pts
  14. 14independent contractors0.4%new

146 products named what they are. 19 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 7 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
  • Vercel100.0%17
  • WordPress100.0%17
  • Shopify58.8%10
  • GitHub Pages47.1%8
  • Netlify11.8%2

55 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%130
  • Plausible3.1%4
  • Umami1.5%2

136 sites showed one

Payments
  • Gumroad100.0%6
  • Stripe83.3%5
  • Paddle50.0%3
  • razorpay50.0%3

19 sites showed one

Auth
  • Supabase100.0%3

4 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
  • India45.7%16
  • United States22.9%8
  • United Kingdom14.3%5
  • Bangladesh5.7%2
  • Germany5.7%2
  • Pakistan5.7%2

35 of the 106 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 Hunt46286.5%9782.11
PeerPush356.6%1654.74
Uneed163.0%543.41
Fazier112.1%33430.429
BetaList50.9%
Tiny Startups40.7%51.31
Devhunt10.2%66.06

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 gamers5.4%29
  • Tools for personal money4.5%24
  • Tools for job hunting and resumes3.7%20
  • Tools for habits and focus3.7%20
  • Tools for investing and trading3.7%20
  • Tools for training and sport tracking3.6%19
  • Mac and Windows desktop utilities3.4%18
  • Tools for notes and remembering3.4%18
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking3.0%16
  • Tools for food and nutrition2.8%15
  • Quick developer utilities2.8%15
  • Tools for courses and self-learning2.6%14

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

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

today
100.0%
Still answering
534 of 534
0
Went quiet
0
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: Tuesday, Sep 8, 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. 534 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. 534 of 534 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.