2026 · archive
Launched in January 2026
11,583 products launched in January 2026 (+22% on December), about 374 a day. 8.3% reached 10 votes on launch day and 3.3% reached 50. Of the 10,418 product sites checked since, 89% are still online.
- 11,583
- launches, +22% vs December
- 374
- launches a day
- 8.3%
- reached 10 votes on launch day
- 3.3%
- reached 50 votes
- 89%
- of 10,418 product sites checked are still online
- 00:00 UTC
- best hour to post that month: 14% reached 10 votes
Volume counts every board on record. Vote shares are measured on the board whose record is complete since 2009 (4,763 launches this month).
Top 60 by votes. There were many more.
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Hey HN! I wanted to share something I built over the last few weeks: isometric.nyc is a massive isometric pixel art map of NYC, built with nano banana and coding agents. I didn't write a single line of code. Of course no-code doesn't mean no-engineering. This project took a lot more manual labor than I'd hoped! I wrote a deep dive on the workflow and some thoughts about the future of AI coding and creativity: http://cannoneyed.com/projects/isometric-nyc
AI · Jan 2026 · cannoneyed.com
Automatic AI-powered code reviews the moment you open a PR
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · kilo.ai
Mom Clock▲742Hi HN, I’ve tried dozens of reminder and habit apps over the years. They’re all polite. Gentle. Easy to ignore. So I built something intentionally different. Mom Clock is a reminder app that behaves more like a strict parent than a productivity coach: – no snoozing – no “later” – optional app blocking using Screen Time APIs The idea came from my own behavior: I don’t need motivation — I need enforcement. This is not for everyone. Some people hate it. Some people love it. I’m genuinely curious where HN stands on this tradeoff: comfort vs. effectiveness. Happy to answer questions about: –…
Work · Jan 2026 · momclock.com
Creator here. I built ChartGPU because I kept hitting the same wall: charting libraries that claim to be "fast" but choke past 100K data points. The core insight: Canvas2D is fundamentally CPU-bound. Even WebGL chart libraries still do most computation on the CPU. So I moved everything to the GPU via WebGPU: - LTTB downsampling runs as a compute shader - Hit-testing for tooltips/hover is GPU-accelerated - Rendering uses instanced draws (one draw call per series) The result: 1M points at 60fps with smooth zoom/pan. Live demo:…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · github.com
Native iOS & Android App + Browser Extensions for scheduling
Work · Jan 2026 · cal.com
Pandada AI▲620Build data wealth: Turns files into McKinsey-level insights
Growth · Jan 2026 · pandada.ai
1Code▲569Just to clarify the background a bit. This project wasn’t planned as a big standalone release at first. On January 16, Ollama added support for an Anthropic-compatible API, and I was curious how far this could be pushed in practice. I decided to try plugging local Ollama models directly into a Claude Code-style workflow and see if it would actually work end to end. Here is the release note from Ollama that made this possible: https://ollama.com/blog/claude Technically, what I do is pretty straightforward: - Detect which local models are available in Ollama. - When…
AI · Jan 2026 · github.com
“Lend Me Your Ears” is an interactive web-based game inspired by the classic Simon toy (originally by Milton Bradley). It presents players with a sequence of musical notes and challenges them to reproduce the sequence using either an on-screen piano or a connected MIDI keyboard. Each correct response leads to a progressively more difficult sequence, testing the player’s concentration, memory, and pitch recognition. The game features two modes: - Simon Mode (focuses on auditory recall) - Practice Mode (displays standard sheet music notation to support learning) The game also includes options…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · lend-me-your-ears.specr.net
TravelAnimator▲536Turn Google Maps URLs into stunning map animations.
Life & fun · Jan 2026 · travelanimator.com
Hey HN, we trained and open-sourced a 1.5B model that predicts your next edits, similar to Cursor. You can download the weights here (https://huggingface.co/sweepai/sweep-next-edit-1.5b) or try it in our JetBrains plugin (https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/26860-sweep-ai-autocomp...). Next-edit autocomplete differs from standard autocomplete by using your recent edits as context when predicting completions. The model is small enough to run locally while outperforming models 4x its size on both speed and accuracy. We tested against Mercury…
AI · Jan 2026 · huggingface.co
I think LLMs are overused to summarise and underused to help us read deeper. I built a system for Claude Code to browse 100 non-fiction books and find interesting connections between them. I started out with a pipeline in stages, chaining together LLM calls to build up a context of the library. I was mainly getting back the insight that I was baking into the prompts, and the results weren't particularly surprising. On a whim, I gave CC access to my debug CLI tools and found that it wiped the floor with that approach. It gave actually interesting results and required very little orchestration…
AI · Jan 2026 · trails.pieterma.es
- OS
I've been working on this for some time now, starting with vm2, then deno-core for 2 years, and recently rewrote it on rusty_v8 with Claude's help. OpenWorkers lets you run untrusted JS in V8 isolates on your own infrastructure. Same DX as Cloudflare Workers, no vendor lock-in. What works today: fetch, KV, Postgres bindings, S3/R2, cron scheduling, crypto.subtle. Self-hosting is a single docker-compose file + Postgres. Would love feedback on the architecture and what feature you'd want next.
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · openworkers.com
ChartGen AI▲489Hi HN, I’m the maker of ChartGen AI. Last year, we launched a text-based AI agent called Ada.im. After analyzing thousands of user interactions, we stumbled upon a pattern we hadn't expected: users were constantly trying to paste data rows and ask for visual representations, but the text-based model couldn't handle it well. We realized that for marketers, seeing the trend is more valuable than reading about it. We pivoted that insight into a standalone tool: Drag & Drop: Upload raw CSVs (FB Ads, GA4, TikTok, etc.). Processing: We map the disparate column names into a unified schema. Viz: It…
AI · Jan 2026 · chartgen.ai
- IT
Built this because tones are killing my spoken Mandarin and I can't reliably hear my own mistakes. It's a 9M Conformer-CTC model trained on ~300h (AISHELL + Primewords), quantized to INT8 (11 MB), runs 100% in-browser via ONNX Runtime Web. Grades per-syllable pronunciation + tones with Viterbi forced alignment. Try it here: https://simedw.com/projects/ear/
Life & fun · Jan 2026 · simedw.com
A free community to talk all-things-agentic-coding-AI
AI · Jan 2026 · clawsyndicate.ai
Mastra 1.0▲451Hi HN, we’re Sam, Shane, and Abhi, and we’re building Mastra (https://mastra.ai), an open-source JavaScript SDK for building agents on top of Vercel’s AI SDK. You can start a Mastra project with `npm create mastra` and create workflow graphs that can suspend/resume, build a RAG pipeline and write evals, give agents memory, create multi-agent workflows, and view it all in a local playground. Previously, we built Gatsby, the open-source React web framework. Later, we worked on an AI-powered CRM but it felt like we were having to roll all the AI bits (agentic workflows, evals,…
AI · Jan 2026 · github.com
Noodle Seed▲432Hi HN! I’m Uzair, Founding Engineer of Noodle Seed. We enable businesses to deploy native apps inside ChatGPT conversations when users need recommendations. What we built: A multi-tenant no-code platform that helps businesses create custom ChatGPT Apps. When someone asks “find me a legal firm in Austin,” businesses using our platform appear with their own branded app - complete with UI components, interactive elements, and real-time information. Not random results from old training data, but actual custom experiences with each business’s branding. Try it: We’re in limited beta with founding…
AI · Jan 2026 · noodleseed.com
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Work · Jan 2026 · recruiter.daily.dev
Bookmarkify▲403Collect websites, images, and videos into visual boards
Work · Jan 2026 · bookmarkify.io
ClaudeUsageBar▲398Hey all! Like many of you, I've been using Claude daily and kept having a hidden fear: when my limit will be reached? How much I have consumed in this session? Im ending up going back and forth to settings > usage to check Literally every 5mns So I built ClaudeUsageBar, a minimal menu bar app that shows your Claude usage percentage at a glance. What it does: Shows your current session (5-hour) and weekly usage directly in the menu bar Notifies you at 25%, 50%, 75%, and 90% thresholds so you can pace yourself Displays exactly when your limits reset Works with both Free and Pro plans Privacy…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · claudeusagebar.com
Terminal UI for AWS (taws) - A terminal-based AWS resource viewer and manager - huseyinbabal/taws
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · github.com
Tonkotsu▲386Hey HN, I’m Derek, part of a small team of ex-Facebook engineers and designer building Tonkotsu. We strongly believe that the future of software development requires every developer to become the tech lead of a team of agents. That shift requires new tools and workflows that go beyond existing IDEs or terminal agents. Tonkotsu is our take on that next-gen tool. It’s a desktop app that lets developers plan technical work, delegate many coding tasks in parallel, and then review the diffs — all in one place. Our main difference is that we tightly integrate this plan > delegate > verify loop and…
AI · Jan 2026 · tonkotsu.ai
LEGO SMART Play▲381Bringing LEGO creations to life like never before
Life & fun · Jan 2026 · lego.com
Hi HN, I'm Barry and I've built Prism.Tools (https://blgardner.github.io/prism.tools/) – a collection of client-side developer utilities that respect your privacy. Many of these tools were used way back in the days when I ran a BBS and started my communities first ISP, serving three local communities with Dial-Up Internet, Web Hosting etc. The tools have been refined to reflect the changes in tech since then and designed for the Novice and Pro alike. As I locate more tools others may find useful I will refine and add them to the collection. Use them, Share them, or not.…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · blgardner.github.io
Flux▲375how can we make AI agents more accessible? it has been a crazy journey seeing how AI agents gets smarter every single day but interaction layer is still missing we are launching Spectrum TODAY: one Unified API connect your AI Agents into iMessage, WhatsApp, Telegram and more
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · photon.codes
Ask your inbox anything to get summaries, drafts, & more
AI · Jan 2026 · blog.google
caricature.life▲368Create a minimalist caricature. No login. No tracking.
AI · Jan 2026 · caricature.life
The 1st Open-source design agent that lives directly inside Cursor, Windsurf, or your favorite IDE. V0.005 is an extension with custom Paralle Claude Code agents and infinite canva UX that allows you to iterate design directly in your IDE. It can: - Generate lots of designs in Paralle (Product Mocks / UI components / Wireframes) - Fork and iterate specific designs - Deeply integrate into your IDE workflow We think design might be the killer use case for Paralle agents, and we thought the best way is to build and validate—so here we are! The V0.005 only generates static HTML pages…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · superdesign.dev
Your calmer, digital detox experience on iPhone
Work · Jan 2026 · minimalistphone.com
Trophy 1.0▲356Hey HN! I'm Charlie, one of the co-founders of Trophy. Trophy is a platform for developers to build and ship gamification experiences for any web or mobile app without having to roll any of the backend yourself. We provide APIs and SDKs to shortcut a lot of the legwork building features like Achievements and Streaks, and a dashboard where you can tweak the experience without having to make any code changes. My co-founder Jason runs campfirewriting.com and always wanted to build a gamification system to boost retention, but always pushed it back in favour of other core features. So we decided…
Dev tools · Jan 2026 · trophy.so
The HN Arcade▲352I love seeing all the small games that people build and post to this site. I don't want to forget any, so I have built a directory/arcade for the games here that I maintain. Feel free to check it out, add your game if its missing and let me know what you think. Thanks!
Life & fun · Jan 2026 · andrewgy8.github.io
Why - I got sick of apps abusing notifications on my Android phone. While the OS does give you the ability to switch off notifications based on channels, most apps either don't use it or abuse it intentionally. In my case, I live in a gated society that uses an app called MyGate to allow visitors, and the app intentionally pushes ads through the same channels since you cannot block them. What - DoNotNotify is an app that logs all incoming notifications, and displays them grouped by app. It also captures the action behind the notification, which can be triggered from the app itself. From this…
Growth · Jan 2026 · donotnotify.com
