Friday in numbers

Friday, Sep 18, 2026
  • 516 products appeared across 6 public launch boards. We have read 516 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 51 products took 84.1% of the 4,368 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 25 of the 508 products on a board that publishes votes (4.9%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 51.2% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 25.2% never mention it at all.
  • More of the day was aimed at consumers: 163 products said they sell to consumers and 148 said they sell to businesses, out of 432 that named a buyer at all.
  • 267 products printed a price. The middle one asks $20, and 28 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 161 launch pages (31.2%) 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 10 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.
Products
516▲ +146
20810 days before622
how big the day was
Boards writing
61
610 days before11
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
8.5▲ +0.9
4.710 days before10.2
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
51.2%▲ +2.2 pts
39.4%10 days before52.1%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
31.6%4.2 pts
31.7%10 days before41.2%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
28.7%▲ +0.3 pts
21.6%10 days before32.4%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
58.9%▲ +1.7 pts
50.7%10 days before61.7%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
16.9%0.8 pts
13.8%10 days before19.7%
share of the day's cohort
Has a free plan
61.4%5.4 pts
56.3%10 days before69.6%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
31.2%▲ +0.1 pts
28.7%10 days before35.1%
share of the day's cohort

What the launch pages claimed

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

that day
  • Puts a number on the page100.0%
  • Has a free plan61.4%
  • Asks you to contact sales42.2%
  • Calls itself the best / the first31.2%
  • Has documentation23.8%
  • Is open source11.6%
  • Shows a case study10.9%
  • Shows customer logos7.4%
  • Says it is hiring4.7%
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 size of company

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

that day
  • small businesses25.4%131
  • solo / indie19.6%101
  • teams15.7%81
  • enterprise11.6%60
251 said265 read, said nothing= 516 products

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
  • web58.9%304
  • mobile16.9%87
  • api9.5%49
  • desktop9.3%48
  • cli4.7%24
  • extension4.3%22
  • bot2.9%15
445 said71 read, said nothing= 516 products

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

What the day charged

267 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
28
44
66
47
42
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$20
Middle price point
267
Printed a price
51.7% of the day
25
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $29/month100.0%14
  • $092.9%13
  • $99/month78.6%11
  • $0/month71.4%10
  • $19/month57.1%8
  • $19.99/month42.9%6
  • $15/mo35.7%5
  • $199/month35.7%5
  • $299/month35.7%5
  • $49/month35.7%5
  • Free35.7%5
  • $1028.6%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.

How the day's attention was shared out

4,368 votes across 508 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
8.6
Mean product
pulled up by the top
84.1%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
25
Got nothing
4.9% of them
  • top 10%84.1%3,672
  • 10–20%4.3%190
  • 20–30%2.5%108
  • 30–40%2.3%102
  • 40–50%1.6%68
  • 50–60%1.2%51
  • 60–70%1.2%51
  • 70–80%1.2%51
  • 80–90%1.1%50
  • 90–100%0.6%25

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.

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
  • consumers31.6%163
  • businesses28.7%148
  • businesses and consumers15.1%78
  • developers8.3%43
  • Read, said nothing16.3%84

What AI does in it

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

that day
  • core to the product51.2%264
  • not mentioned25.2%130
  • a side feature14.0%72
  • explicitly no AI0.6%3
  • Read, said nothing9.1%47

"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 / hosted59.9%309
  • on the device, offline25.0%129
  • self-hosted6.4%33
437 said79 read, said nothing= 516 products

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free forever44.0%227
  • free up to a limit12.2%63
  • free for a trial8.3%43
  • Read, said nothing35.5%183

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing41.5%214
  • an email address10.7%55
  • a card1.7%9
  • no trial0.2%1
279 said237 read, said nothing= 516 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”82.4%425
  • “I”5.4%28
453 said63 read, said nothing= 516 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. 1AI platform0.8%new
  2. 2AI video generator0.8%+0.5 pts · ▲13
  3. 3AI workspace0.6%+0.4 pts · ▲13
  4. 4platform0.6%-0.1 pts · ▼2
  5. 5workspace0.6%+0.3 pts · ▲7
  6. 6AI tutor0.4%new
  7. 7ai-powered platform0.4%+0.3 pts · ▲23
  8. 8browser0.4%+0.3 pts
  9. 9game0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲15
  10. 10launch platform0.4%new
  11. 11PDF tools0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲6
  12. 12productivity0.4%new
Gained the most ground
  1. 2AI video generator0.8%+0.5 pts · ▲13
  2. 3AI workspace0.6%+0.4 pts · ▲13
  3. 5workspace0.6%+0.3 pts · ▲7
  4. 9game0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲15
  5. 11PDF tools0.4%+0.2 pts · ▲6

485 products named what they are. 12 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
  • ChatGPT7.4%38
  • Claude6.4%33
  • Google6.4%33
  • GPT-6 Astra6.4%33
  • Stripe6.0%31
  • OpenAI5.2%27
  • Codex4.1%21
  • Instagram3.9%20
  • Cursor3.3%17
  • GitHub3.3%17
  • Android3.1%16
  • Gemini2.9%15
  • Facebook2.7%14
  • LinkedIn2.7%14

414 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 Store8.1%42
  • Play Store6.2%32
  • npm2.5%13
  • Chrome Web Store1.7%9
  • GitHub0.6%3
  • Amazon Appstore0.4%2
  • Homebrew0.4%2
  • Mac App Store0.4%2
  • Shopify0.4%2
  • Slack0.4%2

95 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. 1developers6.4%+1.2 pts
  2. 2founders3.9%+0.8 pts · ▲1
  3. 3creators2.7%-1.1 pts · ▼1
  4. 4students2.1%+0.2 pts · ▲2
  5. 5designers1.6%+0.6 pts · ▲3
  6. 6freelancers1.4%-0.9 pts · ▼1
  7. 7marketers1.2%-0.6 pts
  8. 8agencies1.0%-1.3 pts · ▼4
  9. 9content creators1.0%+0.3 pts · ▲4
  10. 10businesses0.8%+0.3 pts · ▲7
  11. 11investors0.8%+0.4 pts · ▲8
  12. 12professionals0.8%-0.2 pts · ▼3
  13. 13researchers0.6%-0.3 pts · ▼3
  14. 14solo founders0.6%+0.3 pts

211 products named what they are. 37 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%19
  • Vercel73.7%14
  • Shopify31.6%6
  • Webflow21.1%4
  • Framer15.8%3

47 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%144
  • Plausible4.2%6
  • Umami2.8%4
  • PostHog2.1%3

149 sites showed one

Auth
  • Supabase100.0%5

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
  • India29.5%23
  • United States21.8%17
  • United Kingdom19.2%15
  • Singapore7.7%6
  • Germany3.8%3
  • Pakistan3.8%3
  • Türkiye3.8%3
  • Australia2.6%2
  • France2.6%2
  • Hong Kong2.6%2
  • Nigeria2.6%2

78 of the 193 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 Hunt44085.3%4,0289.21
Uneed275.2%612.30
PeerPush224.3%1295.95
Tiny Startups152.9%382.51
BetaList81.6%
Fazier51.0%11222.423

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 gamers5.2%27
  • Tools for online sellers3.7%19
  • Tools for working with AI coding agents3.1%16
  • Tools for launching and getting listed2.9%15
  • Tools for converting and compressing files2.5%13
  • Tools for answering customers automatically2.3%12
  • Tools for SEO and site audits2.1%11
  • Tools for training and sport tracking2.1%11
  • Tools for travel planning2.1%11
  • Tools for making video1.9%10
  • Tools for building and consuming APIs1.9%10
  • Tools for building AI agents1.7%9

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
516 of 516
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: Friday, Sep 18, 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. 516 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. 516 of 516 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.