Thursday in numbers

Thursday, Sep 10, 2026
  • 1,008 products appeared across 7 public launch boards. We have read 940 of them end to end (93.3% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 100 products took 75.1% of the 5,527 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 45 of the 994 products on a board that publishes votes (4.5%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 40.0% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 27.9% never mention it at all.
  • More of the day was aimed at consumers: 388 products said they sell to consumers and 230 said they sell to businesses, out of 795 that named a buyer at all.
  • Nothing owns the words founders use for themselves: of the 866 products that named what they are, only 26 phrases were used by more than one of them, and the most common ("platform") by just 10. Against the 8 days before, "CRM" gained the most ground.
  • 197 products printed a price. The middle one asks $7, and 21 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 214 launch pages (21.2%) 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
1,008▲ +26
6548 days before1,477
how big the day was
Boards writing
7= 0
78 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
5.5▲ +0.2
3.48 days before5.9
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
40.0%▲ +0.9 pts
34.3%8 days before41.5%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
38.5%▲ +1.3 pts
34.0%8 days before42.4%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
22.8%▲ +1.7 pts
18.2%8 days before22.5%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
47.4%▲ +0.5 pts
43.8%8 days before49.2%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
17.1%▲ +1.2 pts
12.5%8 days before18.6%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
50.8%3.2 pts
47.7%8 days before55.4%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
21.2%▲ +1.5 pts
19.3%8 days before21.3%
share of the day's cohort

The days behind this one

The same measures, day by day. Columns, not a line: days are separate measurements and there is no value in between.
Products
WTFSSMTWT
AI at the core
WTFSSMTWT
Sells to consumers
WTFSSMTWT
Has a free plan
WTFSSMTWT

How the day's attention was shared out

5,527 votes across 994 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
5.6
Mean product
pulled up by the top
75.1%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
45
Got nothing
4.5% of them
  • top 10%75.1%4,151
  • 10–20%7.0%388
  • 20–30%3.7%206
  • 30–40%3.6%200
  • 40–50%2.4%132
  • 50–60%1.8%99
  • 60–70%1.8%99
  • 70–80%1.8%99
  • 80–90%1.8%99
  • 90–100%1.0%54

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.

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 Hunt83482.7%4,3155.21
PeerPush706.9%6289.04
Uneed575.7%2504.41
Tiny Startups202.0%00.00
BetaList141.4%
Fazier131.3%32525.022
MicroLaunch40.4%92.32

Some boards publish a rank but no votes; those rows show a dash. An absent vote count is not a zero.

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
  • web47.4%478
  • mobile17.1%172
  • desktop8.5%86
  • extension4.7%47
  • api4.0%40
  • cli2.3%23
  • bot2.0%20
758 said182 read, said nothing68 not read yet= 1,008 products

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

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. 1platform1.0%+0.1 pts
  2. 2app0.6%-0.1 pts
  3. 3AI video generator0.5%+0.2 pts · ▲7
  4. 4CRM0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲13
  5. 5toolkit0.4%+0.1 pts · ▲8
  6. 6AI workspace0.3%+0.2 pts
  7. 7browser-based tools0.3%+0.1 pts · ▲13
  8. 8directory0.3%-0.1 pts · ▼4
  9. 9tool0.3%-0.3 pts · ▼6
  10. 10AI0.2%+0.1 pts
  11. 11AI image generator and editor0.2%new
  12. 12AI receptionist0.2%+0.1 pts · ▲13
  13. 13AI tool0.2%+0.1 pts · ▲9
  14. 14ai-powered platform0.2%+0.1 pts · ▲12
Gained the most ground
  1. 4CRM0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲13
  2. 6AI workspace0.3%+0.2 pts
  3. 3AI video generator0.5%+0.2 pts · ▲7
  4. 5toolkit0.4%+0.1 pts · ▲8
  5. 7browser-based tools0.3%+0.1 pts · ▲13
  6. 1platform1.0%+0.1 pts
  7. 10AI0.2%+0.1 pts
  8. 12AI receptionist0.2%+0.1 pts · ▲13

866 products named what they are. 26 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.

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
  • consumers38.5%388
  • businesses22.8%230
  • businesses and consumers10.2%103
  • developers7.3%74
  • Read, said nothing14.4%145
  • Not read yet6.7%68

What AI does in it

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

that day
  • core to the product40.0%403
  • not mentioned27.9%281
  • a side feature8.5%86
  • explicitly no AI0.3%3
  • Read, said nothing16.6%167
  • Not read yet6.7%68

"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 / hosted50.5%509
  • on the device, offline26.9%271
  • self-hosted2.3%23
773 said167 read, said nothing68 not read yet= 1,008 products

What size of company

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

that day
  • small businesses14.5%146
  • solo / indie11.8%119
  • teams11.4%115
  • enterprise6.3%64
290 said650 read, said nothing68 not read yet= 1,008 products

What the day charged

197 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
29
20
2
6
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$7
Middle price point
197
Printed a price
19.5% of the day
2
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $0100.0%14
  • Free35.7%5
  • $9.9928.6%4
  • $1.4921.4%3
  • $1021.4%3
  • $1221.4%3
  • $1921.4%3
  • $19/month21.4%3
  • $2.9921.4%3
  • $4.9921.4%3
  • $0 /mo14.3%2
  • $114.3%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.

that day
  • free forever35.4%357
  • free up to a limit11.2%113
  • free for a trial6.6%67
  • Read, said nothing40.0%403
  • Not read yet6.7%68

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing38.5%388
  • an email address5.5%55
  • a card1.3%13
  • no trial0.1%1
457 said483 read, said nothing68 not read yet= 1,008 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”68.5%690
  • “I”4.8%48
738 said202 read, said nothing68 not read yet= 1,008 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 the launch pages claimed

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

that day
  • Has a free plan50.8%
  • Puts a number on the page31.2%
  • Asks you to contact sales25.0%
  • Calls itself the best / the first21.2%
  • Has documentation19.3%
  • Is open source6.9%
  • Shows a case study6.4%
  • Says it is hiring5.3%
  • Shows customer logos3.7%
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
  • Instagram6.0%60
  • Claude4.6%46
  • ChatGPT4.2%42
  • Android4.1%41
  • Google3.7%37
  • WhatsApp3.7%37
  • iPhone3.2%32
  • Facebook3.0%30
  • YouTube2.8%28
  • LinkedIn2.7%27
  • Stripe2.7%27
  • iOS2.6%26
  • TikTok2.4%24
  • Cursor2.3%23

760 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
  • App Store8.7%88
  • Play Store8.3%84
  • Chrome Web Store3.3%33
  • npm1.6%16
  • GitHub0.3%3
  • Homebrew0.3%3
  • Microsoft Store0.3%3
  • WhatsApp0.3%3
  • Amazon0.2%2
  • Instagram0.2%2

215 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. 1developers3.3%-0.5 pts
  2. 2freelancers2.0%+0.3 pts · ▲3
  3. 3creators1.8%-1.5 pts · ▼1
  4. 4students1.5%-0.3 pts
  5. 5agencies1.3%no change · ▲1
  6. 6founders1.2%-1.3 pts · ▼3
  7. 7marketers1.0%-0.3 pts
  8. 8consultants0.9%+0.3 pts · ▲2
  9. 9parents0.6%+0.2 pts · ▲8
  10. 10businesses0.5%+0.2 pts · ▲12
  11. 11teachers0.5%+0.1 pts · ▲3
  12. 12builders0.4%+0.1 pts · ▲12
  13. 13contractors0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲14
  14. 14designers0.4%-0.6 pts · ▼6

347 products named what they are. 53 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%36
  • Vercel61.1%22
  • Shopify27.8%10
  • GitHub Pages22.2%8
  • Netlify22.2%8
  • Webflow11.1%4

91 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%279
  • Fathom1.4%4
  • Plausible1.1%3
  • PostHog1.1%3
  • Umami1.1%3

290 sites showed one

Payments
  • Gumroad100.0%12
  • Stripe58.3%7
  • razorpay50.0%6
  • Paddle25.0%3

28 sites showed one

Auth
  • Supabase100.0%4

6 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
  • India36.9%24
  • United States18.5%12
  • United Kingdom7.7%5
  • Brazil6.2%4
  • Canada6.2%4
  • France6.2%4
  • United Arab Emirates6.2%4
  • Germany3.1%2
  • Indonesia3.1%2
  • Switzerland3.1%2
  • Türkiye3.1%2

65 of the 201 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.

What it is about

The subject axis, assigned by a separate reading pass.

that day
  • Quick developer utilities2.8%28
  • Tools for gamers2.7%27
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking2.6%26
  • Tools for managing a sales pipeline2.3%23
  • Tools for generating images2.0%20
  • Tools for personal money2.0%20
  • Tools for travel planning1.9%19
  • Calculators for everyday math1.9%19
  • Tools for making video1.9%19
  • Tools for building and consuming APIs1.8%18
  • Tools for job hunting and resumes1.7%17
  • Mac and Windows desktop utilities1.7%17

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.

today
99.5%
Still answering
989 of 994
5
Went quiet
14
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. 1,008 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. 940 of 1,008 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.