Thursday in numbers

Thursday, Sep 10, 2026
  • 143 products appeared across 7 public launch boards. We have read 143 of them end to end (100.0% of the day).
  • Attention did not spread out: the busiest 15 products took 77.6% of the 812 votes the boards handed out, and the median product finished the day on 1.
  • 11 of the 142 products on a board that publishes votes (7.7%) had not received a single one when we counted.
  • 44.8% of the day put AI at the core of the product, while 28.7% never mention it at all.
  • More of the day was aimed at businesses: 54 products said they sell to consumers and 60 said they sell to businesses, out of 132 that named a buyer at all.
  • 52 products printed a price. The middle one asks $19, and 0 of the printed price points were $0.
  • 38 launch pages (26.6%) 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 8 days before it: the bar is the range those days covered, the notch is their middle, the dot is this day.
Products
143▲ +15
678 days before175
how big the day was
Boards writing
7▲ +1
58 days before9
weekly boards publish on Mondays, so this moves by weekday
Votes per product
5.7▲ +0.9
2.28 days before7.1
counted today, so a fresh day is still filling up
AI at the core
44.8%▲ +1.5 pts
39.4%8 days before55.0%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to consumers
37.8%▲ +2.7 pts
33.6%8 days before41.8%
share of the day's cohort
Sells to businesses
42.0%▲ +4.4 pts
29.9%8 days before46.0%
share of the day's cohort
Is a web app
50.3%▲ +3.5 pts
41.0%8 days before54.3%
share of the day's cohort
Is a mobile app
14.7%▲ +3.3 pts
9.9%8 days before19.0%
share of the day's cohort
Calls itself the best
26.6%▲ +2.4 pts
22.0%8 days before29.9%
share of the day's cohort

What the day charged

52 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
$0$1–9$10–29$30–99$100+
$19
Middle price point
52
Printed a price
36.4% of the day
0
Could not be read
other currency or wording
Most written price points
  • $9.99100.0%3
  • $19/month66.7%2
  • $20/month66.7%2
  • $7.99/month66.7%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.

What the free tier is

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

that day
  • free for a trial31.5%45
  • free up to a limit0.7%1
  • Read, said nothing67.8%97

What size of company

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

that day
  • small businesses30.1%43
  • solo / indie23.1%33
  • teams17.5%25
  • enterprise6.3%9
68 said75 read, said nothing= 143 products

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 page37.8%
  • Asks you to contact sales37.1%
  • Calls itself the best / the first26.6%
  • Has documentation19.6%
  • Says it is hiring9.1%
  • Shows a case study8.4%
  • Shows customer logos4.9%
  • Is open source4.9%
  • Has a free plan0.0%
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

812 votes across 142 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
5.7
Mean product
pulled up by the top
77.6%
Top tenth's share
of all votes
11
Got nothing
7.7% of them
  • top 10%77.6%630
  • 10–20%5.7%46
  • 20–30%3.4%28
  • 30–40%3.4%28
  • 40–50%2.6%21
  • 50–60%1.7%14
  • 60–70%1.7%14
  • 70–80%1.7%14
  • 80–90%1.7%14
  • 90–100%0.4%3

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
  • web50.3%72
  • mobile14.7%21
  • desktop10.5%15
  • api4.9%7
  • bot4.2%6
  • extension2.1%3
  • cli0.7%1
110 said33 read, said nothing= 143 products

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

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
  • businesses42.0%60
  • consumers37.8%54
  • businesses and consumers7.7%11
  • developers4.9%7
  • Read, said nothing7.7%11

What AI does in it

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

that day
  • core to the product44.8%64
  • not mentioned28.7%41
  • a side feature8.4%12
  • Read, said nothing18.2%26

"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 / hosted58.7%84
  • on the device, offline21.7%31
  • self-hosted4.9%7
115 said28 read, said nothing= 143 products

What the trial asks for

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

that day
  • nothing29.4%42
  • an email address7.0%10
  • a card6.3%9
61 said82 read, said nothing= 143 products

Whether the page says we or I

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

that day
  • “we”79.0%113
  • “I”9.8%14
127 said16 read, said nothing= 143 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. 1platform1.4%+0.6 pts · ▲2
Gained the most ground
  1. 1platform1.4%+0.6 pts · ▲2

131 products named what they are. 1 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
  • Stripe9.1%13
  • Instagram8.4%12
  • ChatGPT7.7%11
  • Claude7.7%11
  • Google4.9%7
  • Twitter4.9%7
  • Cursor4.2%6
  • Facebook4.2%6
  • Telegram4.2%6
  • Windows4.2%6
  • YouTube4.2%6
  • iPhone3.5%5
  • Shopify3.5%5
  • App Store2.8%4

112 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 Store9.1%13
  • Play Store5.6%8
  • Chrome Web Store1.4%2
  • Instagram1.4%2
  • SMS1.4%2
  • WhatsApp1.4%2

23 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. 1freelancers4.9%+2.6 pts · ▲3
  2. 2developers2.8%-0.8 pts
  3. 3founders2.1%-2.1 pts · ▼2
  4. 4consultants1.4%+0.5 pts · ▲5

64 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 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%7
  • Shopify57.1%4
  • GitHub Pages28.6%2
  • Vercel28.6%2

16 sites showed one

Analytics
  • Google Analytics100.0%40

40 sites showed one

Payments
  • Gumroad100.0%3
  • razorpay66.7%2
  • Stripe66.7%2

8 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
  • Brazil25.0%2
  • France25.0%2
  • India25.0%2
  • United Arab Emirates25.0%2

8 of the 40 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 Hunt11681.1%6815.91
Uneed107.0%262.62
PeerPush74.9%618.73
Tiny Startups53.5%00.00
Fazier32.1%4414.715
BetaList10.7%
MicroLaunch10.7%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 tasks and project tracking4.9%7
  • Tools for answering customers automatically4.2%6
  • Tools for agencies and freelancers3.5%5
  • Tools for managing a sales pipeline3.5%5
  • Mac and Windows desktop utilities2.8%4
  • Tools for SEO and site audits2.8%4
  • Tools for personal money2.8%4
  • Tools for invoicing and getting paid2.1%3
  • Tools for gamers2.1%3
  • Tools for investing and trading2.1%3
  • Tools for anonymity and privacy2.1%3
  • Quick developer utilities2.1%3

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
143 of 143
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. 143 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. 143 of 143 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.