Launches
Every Show HN post, reviewed for whether people would use or pay for it. Strong is 6 or more, Solid 5 to 6; noise is Dismissed. Judged on the title and description only, so open the launch before you trust a score.
141 of 141 launches.
| Verdict | Launch | Category | Points | Age |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4.1Dismissed | Sgrep; fast, accurate code search for agents github.com Vague Agent code search is crowded and the listing is just a GitHub signup stub with nothing concrete to judge. |
DevTools | 1 | |
| 4.0Dismissed | A guided 3D Leonardo da Vinci museum, built in code museumofages.org Not a product A free nonprofit virtual da Vinci museum; lovely content project, no product or paying audience. |
Education | 77 | |
| 4.0 | boostmyagents – A README badge lets your users pay for your AI usage boostmyagents.com Clever funding idea for AI-heavy OSS maintainers, but few communities will actually pay via a badge. |
DevTools | 2 | |
| 4.0 | Chrome extension that flags propaganda techniques locally propalens.com On-device propaganda flagging is interesting but classification accuracy is dubious and few users will bother. |
Consumer | 1 | |
| 4.0Dismissed | Panelize – Ask ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and DeepSeek Side by Side github.com Clone For casual users comparing model answers; crowded space, and 'no API keys' raises sustainability questions. |
AI infra | 1 | |
| 3.9Dismissed | Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do wonderhop.io Not a product A daily trivia game with a clever multilingual answer-matching problem, but it's a game, not a product. |
Consumer | 10 | |
| 3.9Dismissed | Shrine, a calm pixel room on your Mac for all your coding agents agentshrine.com Toy Cute monitor for agent sessions aimed at devs running many agents; charm over utility, likely a toy. |
DevTools | 5 | |
| 3.9Dismissed | Pericentre, a 3D space atlas with continuous zoom pericentre.com Toy A polished space-exploration demo; pleasant to visit, but no clear audience or reason to return or pay. |
Education | 2 | |
| 3.9Dismissed | Interactive NYC food inspection map with a deduction game prizz.io Not a product NYC data nerds; a neat open-data mashup with a game, but it is a fun site, not something anyone pays for. |
Data | 1 | |
| 3.9 | Hailab Fail-Closed and RAM Zeroization Engine in Python waleedmubarak.substack.com Python RAM zeroization library; Python is the wrong substrate for this, limiting trust. |
Security | 1 | |
| 3.8Dismissed | OraStage – turn two photos into a Hotel Lobby rap video orastage.com Thin wrapper A thin wrapper making silly rap videos from photos; fun for a viral moment, not a durable product. |
Consumer | 3 | |
| 3.8 | Cve.earth – Open-Source Environmental Destruction Tracking cve.earth Public ledger of corporate environmental harm is noble but lacks sourcing, moderation, and a clear user base. |
Other | 2 | |
| 3.8Dismissed | Veduta – Personal Agent with GenUI github.com Thin wrapper Personal agent with generative UI atop OpenClaw-style daemons; interesting direction, vague differentiation. |
AI infra | 1 | |
| 3.8 | Model Atlas – An LLM leaderboard you can reweight philippdubach.com Reweightable LLM leaderboard; a nicer table on data others publish, minor utility. |
AI infra | 1 | |
| 3.7Dismissed | Can AI read your mind? jeffyclassify.com Toy Fun demo showing an AI can exploit your choice patterns; entertaining but no product or audience. |
Consumer | 6 | |
| 3.7Dismissed | My live 3D satellite tracker, now with asteroids and a UAP archive skylens.yantraai.app Toy Space-curious consumers; pretty tracker but satellite maps exist and the UAP angle suggests hobby project, not a product. |
Consumer | 5 | |
| 3.7Dismissed | Watch RL-trained squads play a 2D battle royale (full match replay) 123wwwa.github.io Not a product Research demo of MARL-trained bots in a battle royale; interesting to watch, not a usable product. |
Other | 2 | |
| 3.6Dismissed | UpDown – free multiplayer Markdown documents updown.laravel.cloud Clone Another multiplayer Markdown editor; HackMD and friends already do this with sync that works. |
Other | 2 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | The LAST DOOR – a tiny game about deciding when to leave sydro.surge.sh Not a product A small art-game about leaving; fine to play, not a product anyone pays for. |
Consumer | 5 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | Launch Videos Gallery – A free collection of startup launch videos launchvideos.gallery Not a product A curated gallery of launch videos is a content site, not a product; fine browsing, no one pays. |
Other | 4 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | A purely in-browser harness – let SaaS users act with natural language gametorch.app Vague One-line pitch with no description of what the harness does, for whom, or how to try it. |
AI infra | 3 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | Caesarcipher.org caesarcipher.org Clone Classical-cipher tools exist on dozens of sites; this is an SEO content play with no new capability. |
Education | 2 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | An Algol 60 compiler with a LuaJIT runtime github.com Toy Algol 60 compiler to LuaJIT is an impressive language-nerd project with no practical audience. |
DevTools | 1 | |
| 3.5Dismissed | A webcomic for AI agents, written and drawn by Claude stop-sequence.com Not a product AI-drawn webcomic for agents; amusing art project, not something anyone buys. |
Consumer | 1 | |
| 3.4Dismissed | Built a Rome City Builder tiberava.pages.dev Toy Browser Rome city-builder game is a hobby project, not a launch with users or revenue in mind. |
Consumer | 15 | |
| 3.4Dismissed | I made a hockey web game with Opus 5.5, and Gemini Argon optimized it playblueline.pages.dev Not a product An arcade hockey browser game; fine as a post but not a product anyone pays for. |
Consumer | 5 | |
| 3.4Dismissed | DevShelf – 500 free developer tools with a CLI and validation bot github.com Clone Developers who like curated lists; another awesome-list directory with a CLI, indistinguishable from many existing ones. |
DevTools | 1 | |
| 3.4 | Three free 3D browser games, no download, no signup, daily rankings toplaynow.com Casual browser games with daily rankings; thousands of such sites, no hook. |
Consumer | 1 | |
| 3.3Dismissed | Popcorn Tracker popcorn-tracker.wasmer.app Toy Nobody in particular; an amusing popcorn-timing gimmick with no use case beyond a chuckle. |
Consumer | 1 | |
| 3.3Dismissed | Doom running inside a JavaScript datagrid toclocoinc.github.io Toy A clever hack showing Doom in a datagrid; fun demo, no intended users or product behind it. |
Other | 1 | |
| 3.2Dismissed | Brutus CLI – Tiny Dagger to Kill Your Mac's Caesar github.com Vague Cryptic name, no description; nothing to judge who it is for or what it does. |
DevTools | 3 | |
| 3.2Dismissed | Fold a sheet of paper until it reaches the Moon twentyfun.com Toy A paper-folding exponential demo; a fun diversion with no intended users beyond a click. |
Other | 3 | |
| 3.2Dismissed | Keep your eyes in one place while typing claude.ai Toy A typing experiment hosted as a Claude artifact; a personal curiosity, not something people will adopt. |
Consumer | 2 | |
| 3.1Dismissed | A personal website built around phone movement and spatial UI marcolavielle.com Not a product An experimental personal site with motion-based UI; creative, but it's a portfolio piece, not a product. |
Other | 1 | |
| 3.1Dismissed | Turn your keyboard's Caps Lock LED into a status light for Claude Code github.com Toy Cute hack for Claude Code users wanting ambient status, but trivially niche and solves almost nothing. |
DevTools | 1 | |
| 3.0Dismissed | Recreating Gemini Argon 3D demo using ExtrudeAI and FreeCAD chat.extrudeai.com Toy A demo recreating someone else's 3D demo with an in-house CAD tool; showcases little of standalone value. |
Other | 1 | |
| 2.9Dismissed | Phrack.org RSS Feed phrack-feed.lh.mk Toy A handy RSS shim for Phrack readers; useful to a few hundred people, not a product. |
Other | 2 | |
| 2.8Dismissed | MLX Direct Decider, Mac local decider without fine-tuning github.com Vague 'Decider without fine-tuning' never explains what a decider is or why anyone needs one. |
AI infra | 2 | |
| 2.7Dismissed | Decision Models in a Game Toy A personal experiment comparing model cost/latency as a game; no intended users beyond curiosity. |
AI infra | 2 | |
| 2.6Dismissed | botsay – cowsay for the AI Era github.com Toy cowsay with an AI twist; self-described whimsy, a weekend joke. |
DevTools | 5 | |
| 2.2Dismissed | Can a solo founder compete in the crowded Chrome extension market? chromewebstore.google.com Vague Unclear; a rhetorical title with no description of what the extension does or who it serves. |
Consumer | 2 |