Monday in numbers

Monday, Sep 7, 2026
  • 184 products appeared across 10 public launch boards. We have read 184 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 15 products took 67.9% of the 739 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 27 of the 149 products on a board that publishes votes (18.1%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 38.0% 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 consumers: 131 products said they sell to consumers and 25 said they sell to businesses, out of 174 that named a buyer at all.
  • 32 products printed a price. The middle one asks $0.99, and 3 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 42 launch pages (22.8%) 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 6 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.
Products
184▲ +48
886 days before143
how big the day was
Boards writing
10▲ +5
46 days before7
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
4.0▲ +0.9
2.36 days before6.0
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
38.0%▲ +3.4 pts
28.0%6 days before38.7%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
71.2%5.7 pts
72.1%6 days before77.6%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
13.6%▲ +0.4 pts
8.0%6 days before16.2%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
20.7%▲ +0.2 pts
14.4%6 days before26.1%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
61.4%2.9 pts
52.6%6 days before64.9%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
22.8%▲ +0.4 pts
18.3%6 days before27.0%
share of the day's cohort

Where it was published

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

that day
  • App Store52.2%96
  • Play Store39.1%72
  • Chrome Web Store1.6%3

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

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
  • consumers71.2%131
  • businesses13.6%25
  • businesses and consumers8.2%15
  • developers1.6%3
  • Read, said nothing5.4%10

Where it runs

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

that day
  • cloud / hosted48.4%89
  • on the device, offline48.4%89
  • self-hosted2.2%4
168 said16 read, said nothing= 184 products

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
  • Android18.5%34
  • App Store18.5%34
  • iPhone15.8%29
  • Google Play12.5%23
  • Instagram10.3%19
  • iOS9.8%18
  • iPad6.0%11
  • TikTok6.0%11
  • YouTube6.0%11
  • Facebook5.4%10
  • Apple4.9%9
  • Google4.9%9
  • WhatsApp4.3%8
  • Discord3.8%7

166 products named at least one other product or platform.

How the day's attention was shared out

739 votes across 149 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
5.0
Mean product
pulled up by the top
67.9%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
27
Got nothing
18.1% of them
  • top 10%67.9%502
  • 10–20%11.8%87
  • 20–30%6.5%48
  • 30–40%4.3%32
  • 40–50%3.1%23
  • 50–60%2.0%15
  • 60–70%2.0%15
  • 70–80%2.0%15
  • 80–90%0.3%2
  • 90–100%0.0%0

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
  • mobile100.0%184
  • web20.7%38
  • desktop12.0%22
  • extension2.2%4
  • api1.1%2
  • bot1.1%2
  • cli0.5%1
184 said= 184 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 product38.0%70
  • not mentioned25.0%46
  • a side feature12.0%22
  • Read, said nothing25.0%46

"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 size of company

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

that day
  • solo / indie14.7%27
  • small businesses13.0%24
  • teams9.8%18
  • enterprise4.3%8
48 said136 read, said nothing= 184 products

What the day charged

32 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
3
5
2
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$0.99
Middle price point
32
Printed a price
17.4% of the day
0
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $0100.0%3
  • $0.99100.0%3
  • $14.9966.7%2
  • $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.

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free forever45.1%83
  • free up to a limit12.0%22
  • free for a trial8.2%15
  • Read, said nothing34.8%64

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing39.1%72
  • an email address4.9%9
  • a card1.1%2
  • no trial0.5%1
84 said100 read, said nothing= 184 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”73.4%135
  • “I”6.0%11
146 said38 read, said nothing= 184 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. 1app2.2%+0.1 pts
  2. 2AI companion1.1%new
  3. 3AI video generator1.1%new
  4. 4budgeting & bills tracker1.1%new
  5. 5habit tracker1.1%new
  6. 6lifestyle1.1%new
  7. 7mobile app1.1%+0.2 pts · ▼4
  8. 8trip planner1.1%new
Gained the most ground
  1. 7mobile app1.1%+0.2 pts · ▼4
  2. 1app2.2%+0.1 pts

171 products named what they are. 8 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 6 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 plan61.4%
  • Puts a number on the page36.4%
  • Calls itself the best / the first22.8%
  • Asks you to contact sales15.2%
  • Has documentation14.1%
  • Says it is hiring6.0%
  • Shows customer logos4.3%
  • Is open source4.3%
  • Shows a case study3.8%
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.

Who they said it was for

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

that day
Most said
  1. 1creators4.3%+3.4 pts · ▲3
  2. 2agencies2.2%+1.8 pts · ▲7
  3. 3freelancers1.6%+0.7 pts · ▲2
  4. 4students1.6%+0.1 pts · ▼3
  5. 5designers1.1%+0.8 pts · ▲10
  6. 6founders1.1%+0.7 pts · ▲4
  7. 7marketers1.1%new
  8. 8professionals1.1%+0.7 pts · ▲3
  9. 9researchers1.1%+0.8 pts
  10. 10small businesses1.1%new

54 products named what they are. 10 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 6 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%4
  • GitHub Pages50.0%2
  • Vercel50.0%2

11 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%39
  • Plausible7.7%3

43 sites showed one

Payments
  • Stripe100.0%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
  • India83.3%10
  • United Kingdom16.7%2

12 of the 43 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 Hunt8847.8%4735.41
Peerlist3418.5%
TinyLaunch3317.9%641.90
PeerPush189.8%1015.65
Uneed42.2%4210.510
OpenHunts31.6%20.70
BetaList21.1%
Fazier21.1%5728.529
Smol Launch21.1%
Tiny Startups10.5%00.00

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 habits and focus6.0%11
  • Tools for travel planning5.4%10
  • Tools for training and sport tracking4.9%9
  • Tools for gamers4.9%9
  • Tools for personal money4.3%8
  • Tools for tasks and project tracking4.3%8
  • Tools for learning a language2.7%5
  • Tools for making video2.7%5
  • Tools for stock and inventory2.7%5
  • Tools for parents and kids2.2%4
  • Quick developer utilities2.2%4
  • Tools for building a site or app without coding2.2%4

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
184 of 184
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: Monday, Sep 7, 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. 184 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. 184 of 184 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.