Thursday in numbers

Thursday, Sep 10, 2026
  • 252 products appeared across 7 public launch boards. We have read 252 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 26 products took 78.0% of the 1,877 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 12 of the 251 products on a board that publishes votes (4.8%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 53.2% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 24.2% never mention it at all.
  • More of the day was aimed at businesses: 46 products said they sell to consumers and 137 said they sell to businesses, out of 231 that named a buyer at all.
  • Nothing owns the words founders use for themselves: of the 240 products that named what they are, only 4 phrases were used by more than one of them, and the most common ("platform") by just 6. Against the 8 days before, "platform" gained the most ground.
  • 48 products printed a price. The middle one asks $19, and 5 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 80 launch pages (31.7%) 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 8 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.
Products
252▲ +59
1278 days before340
how big the day was
Boards writing
7= 0
58 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
7.41.2
2.98 days before11.4
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
53.2%3.3 pts
42.5%8 days before60.4%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
18.3%0.6 pts
11.4%8 days before22.0%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
54.4%▲ +1.0 pts
47.7%8 days before61.7%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
51.6%0.3 pts
40.3%8 days before54.3%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
10.7%▲ +0.6 pts
8.2%8 days before15.3%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
46.4%8.2 pts
41.3%8 days before60.0%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
31.7%▲ +1.7 pts
24.4%8 days before34.1%
share of the day's cohort

What the day charged

48 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
5
4
2
2
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$19
Middle price point
48
Printed a price
19.0% of the day
0
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • Free100.0%3
  • $066.7%2
  • $19/month66.7%2
  • $20/month66.7%2
  • $50066.7%2
  • $99/month66.7%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.

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.

that day
  • businesses54.4%137
  • consumers18.3%46
  • businesses and consumers12.3%31
  • developers6.7%17
  • Read, said nothing8.3%21

What size of company

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

that day
  • small businesses33.3%84
  • teams25.4%64
  • solo / indie19.8%50
  • enterprise17.9%45
156 said96 read, said nothing= 252 products

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 sales100.0%
  • Puts a number on the page49.2%
  • Has a free plan46.4%
  • Calls itself the best / the first31.7%
  • Has documentation28.2%
  • Shows a case study16.7%
  • Says it is hiring15.9%
  • Shows customer logos9.9%
  • Is open source5.6%
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.

How the day's attention was shared out

1,877 votes across 251 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
7.5
Mean product
pulled up by the top
78.0%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
12
Got nothing
4.8% of them
  • top 10%78.0%1,464
  • 10–20%7.8%146
  • 20–30%3.7%69
  • 30–40%2.7%50
  • 40–50%1.9%35
  • 50–60%1.3%25
  • 60–70%1.3%25
  • 70–80%1.3%25
  • 80–90%1.3%25
  • 90–100%0.7%13

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
  • web51.6%130
  • mobile10.7%27
  • api9.1%23
  • desktop5.6%14
  • extension4.0%10
  • cli2.4%6
  • bot1.6%4
185 said67 read, said nothing= 252 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 product53.2%134
  • not mentioned24.2%61
  • a side feature10.7%27
  • Read, said nothing11.9%30

"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 / hosted67.9%171
  • on the device, offline13.5%34
  • self-hosted5.2%13
202 said50 read, said nothing= 252 products

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free forever25.4%64
  • free up to a limit13.9%35
  • free for a trial12.7%32
  • Read, said nothing48.0%121

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing37.3%94
  • an email address6.7%17
  • a card3.6%9
  • no trial0.4%1
121 said131 read, said nothing= 252 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”86.9%219
  • “I”3.6%9
228 said24 read, said nothing= 252 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. 1platform2.4%+1.2 pts
  2. 2AI receptionist0.8%+0.5 pts · ▲10
  3. 3ai-powered platform0.8%+0.7 pts
  4. 4CRM0.8%+0.3 pts · ▼1
Gained the most ground
  1. 1platform2.4%+1.2 pts
  2. 4CRM0.8%+0.3 pts · ▼1

240 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 8 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
  • Claude7.1%18
  • Instagram7.1%18
  • WhatsApp6.7%17
  • ChatGPT5.6%14
  • Facebook4.4%11
  • Stripe4.4%11
  • Google4.0%10
  • Cursor3.2%8
  • HubSpot2.4%6
  • n8n2.4%6
  • OpenAI2.4%6
  • Shopify2.4%6
  • Telegram2.4%6
  • TikTok2.4%6

190 products named at least one other product or platform.

Where it was published

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

that day
  • Play Store4.8%12
  • App Store3.2%8
  • Chrome Web Store3.2%8
  • npm2.0%5
  • GitHub0.8%2
  • Instagram0.8%2

32 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.

that day
Most said
  1. 1developers4.4%-0.5 pts
  2. 2founders2.0%-1.9 pts
  3. 3agencies1.6%-1.3 pts
  4. 4students1.6%+0.3 pts · ▲4
  5. 5businesses1.2%+0.7 pts · ▲13
  6. 6creators1.2%-1.7 pts · ▼2
  7. 7freelancers1.2%-0.7 pts · ▼1
  8. 8architects0.8%+0.5 pts
  9. 9artists0.8%new
  10. 10interior designers0.8%+0.6 pts
  11. 11managers0.8%+0.4 pts · ▲9
  12. 12manufacturers0.8%new
  13. 13marketers0.8%-1.6 pts · ▼8
  14. 14marketing teams0.8%+0.3 pts · ▲1

117 products named what they are. 18 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 8 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%18
  • Shopify11.1%2
  • Webflow11.1%2

25 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%99
  • PostHog3.0%3
  • Fathom2.0%2
  • Plausible2.0%2

105 sites showed one

Payments
  • Stripe100.0%4

5 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
  • India52.4%11
  • Brazil9.5%2
  • France9.5%2
  • United Arab Emirates9.5%2
  • United Kingdom9.5%2
  • United States9.5%2

21 of the 98 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 Hunt19276.2%1,4977.81
Uneed259.9%1144.62
PeerPush249.5%1415.93
Fazier52.0%12424.825
Tiny Startups52.0%00.00
MicroLaunch20.8%10.51
BetaList10.4%

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 managing a sales pipeline4.8%12
  • Tools for building and consuming APIs4.4%11
  • Tools for answering customers automatically3.6%9
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking3.2%8
  • Tools for travel planning2.8%7
  • Tools for generating images2.8%7
  • Tools for finding security holes in code2.8%7
  • Tools for compliance and regulation2.4%6
  • Tools for building AI agents2.4%6
  • Tools for monitoring and alerts2.0%5
  • Tools for property and rentals2.0%5
  • Tools for scheduling social posts2.0%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

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

today
100.0%
Still answering
252 of 252
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: Thursday, Sep 10, 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. 252 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. 252 of 252 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.