Wednesday in numbers

Wednesday, Sep 16, 2026
  • 316 products appeared across 6 public launch boards. We have read 316 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 32 products took 77.7% of the 1,925 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 13 of the 311 products on a board that publishes votes (4.2%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 55.4% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 25.0% never mention it at all.
  • More of the day was aimed at businesses: 49 products said they sell to consumers and 160 said they sell to businesses, out of 285 that named a buyer at all.
  • 180 products printed a price. The middle one asks $29, and 21 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 100 launch pages (31.6%) 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
316▲ +64
12810 days before442
how big the day was
Boards writing
61
610 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
6.12.0
3.710 days before11.4
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
55.4%0.2 pts
42.2%10 days before62.0%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
15.5%2.7 pts
12.5%10 days before21.7%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
50.6%1.6 pts
45.6%10 days before54.7%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
51.6%3.1 pts
51.6%10 days before60.4%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
13.3%▲ +3.1 pts
8.2%10 days before12.9%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
56.6%▲ +3.2 pts
44.3%10 days before60.1%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
31.6%▲ +1.6 pts
24.2%10 days before36.4%
share of the day's cohort

What the day charged

180 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
21
28
43
42
34
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$29
Middle price point
180
Printed a price
57.0% of the day
12
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $49/month100.0%11
  • $081.8%9
  • $29/month81.8%9
  • $99/month81.8%9
  • $0/month54.5%6
  • $19/month54.5%6
  • $199/month54.5%6
  • $25/month45.5%5
  • $4945.5%5
  • $0/forever36.4%4
  • $20/month36.4%4
  • $49/mo36.4%4

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
  • businesses50.6%160
  • businesses and consumers16.8%53
  • consumers15.5%49
  • developers7.3%23
  • Read, said nothing9.8%31

What size of company

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

that day
  • small businesses35.4%112
  • enterprise22.5%71
  • teams20.9%66
  • solo / indie19.3%61
213 said103 read, said nothing= 316 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%
  • Has a free plan56.6%
  • Puts a number on the page54.7%
  • Calls itself the best / the first31.6%
  • Has documentation25.0%
  • Shows a case study19.3%
  • Shows customer logos14.6%
  • Says it is hiring13.0%
  • Is open source5.1%
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.

How the day's attention was shared out

1,925 votes across 311 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
6.2
Mean product
pulled up by the top
77.7%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
13
Got nothing
4.2% of them
  • top 10%77.7%1,496
  • 10–20%7.0%134
  • 20–30%3.2%62
  • 30–40%3.1%60
  • 40–50%1.6%31
  • 50–60%1.6%31
  • 60–70%1.6%31
  • 70–80%1.6%31
  • 80–90%1.6%31
  • 90–100%0.9%18

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%163
  • mobile13.3%42
  • api12.0%38
  • desktop7.3%23
  • bot6.0%19
  • cli3.8%12
  • extension2.2%7
260 said56 read, said nothing= 316 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 product55.4%175
  • not mentioned25.0%79
  • a side feature12.0%38
  • explicitly no AI0.6%2
  • Read, said nothing7.0%22

"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 / hosted67.1%212
  • on the device, offline13.3%42
  • self-hosted9.2%29
264 said52 read, said nothing= 316 products

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free forever35.8%113
  • free for a trial15.5%49
  • free up to a limit13.3%42
  • Read, said nothing35.4%112

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing39.9%126
  • an email address13.6%43
  • a card3.5%11
180 said136 read, said nothing= 316 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”93.4%295
  • “I”2.5%8
303 said13 read, said nothing= 316 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. 1platform0.9%-0.1 pts
  2. 2cloud platform0.6%new
  3. 3form builder0.6%+0.5 pts
  4. 4marketplace0.6%+0.2 pts · ▲1
  5. 5project management platform0.6%new
Gained the most ground
  1. 4marketplace0.6%+0.2 pts · ▲1

306 products named what they are. 5 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
  • Stripe8.2%26
  • Claude7.6%24
  • ChatGPT4.7%15
  • Google4.4%14
  • Instagram3.8%12
  • WhatsApp3.8%12
  • Google Play3.2%10
  • LinkedIn2.8%9
  • Slack2.8%9
  • YouTube2.8%9
  • Gemini2.5%8
  • PayPal2.5%8
  • Facebook2.2%7
  • GitHub2.2%7

236 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 Store7.9%25
  • App Store7.0%22
  • npm1.6%5
  • Chrome Web Store1.3%4
  • WhatsApp0.9%3
  • Docker0.6%2
  • Telegram0.6%2

51 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%-0.7 pts
  2. 2founders4.1%+0.5 pts
  3. 3freelancers1.9%no change · ▲3
  4. 4agencies1.6%-1.6 pts · ▼1
  5. 5professionals1.3%+0.7 pts · ▲10
  6. 6creators0.9%-1.9 pts · ▼2
  7. 7students0.9%-0.5 pts
  8. 8affiliates0.6%new
  9. 9builders0.6%+0.4 pts
  10. 10businesses0.6%-0.1 pts · ▼1
  11. 11cfos0.6%+0.5 pts
  12. 12freelance developers0.6%new
  13. 13HR teams0.6%new
  14. 14marketers0.6%-1.5 pts · ▼9

138 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 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%21
  • Vercel19.0%4
  • Webflow14.3%3
  • Wix9.5%2

34 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%116
  • Umami5.2%6
  • Plausible1.7%2

121 sites showed one

Payments
  • Stripe100.0%3
  • Lemon Squeezy66.7%2
  • Paddle66.7%2

8 sites showed one

Auth
  • Firebase100.0%2
  • Supabase100.0%2

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
  • India32.6%15
  • United Kingdom19.6%9
  • United States19.6%9
  • France6.5%3
  • Germany6.5%3
  • United Arab Emirates6.5%3
  • Austria4.3%2
  • Estonia4.3%2

46 of the 136 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 Hunt25681.0%1,4885.81
PeerPush268.2%1284.94
Uneed227.0%974.41
BetaList72.2%
Fazier51.6%20841.641
Tiny Startups30.9%41.32

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 pipeline5.4%17
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking3.8%12
  • Tools for building and consuming APIs3.5%11
  • Tools for answering customers automatically3.5%11
  • Tools for analytics and conversion tracking3.2%10
  • Quick developer utilities2.8%9
  • Tools for being found by AI search2.5%8
  • Tools for hiring and screening candidates2.5%8
  • Tools for monitoring and alerts2.2%7
  • Tools for making video1.9%6
  • Tools for compliance and regulation1.6%5
  • Tools for stock and inventory1.6%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

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

today
100.0%
Still answering
316 of 316
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: Wednesday, Sep 16, 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. 316 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. 316 of 316 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.