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Coilr

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Coilr is a Steam analytics platform for exploring player counts, trends, historical data, and game performance over time. Track thousands of Steam games, compare player activity, discover which titles are growing or declining, and explore long-term charts that make it easy to understand what’s happening across Steam. Coilr also publishes original reports based on large-scale Steam player data, highlighting unusual trends, major updates, player spikes, and shifts across the gaming market.

PH · launched Sep 16, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 69%) · 0 views

Niche: video game trackers and analytics · 87 launches, 14 in the last 7 days ▲ +133% · Explore this niche →

Category and tags

  • Media & entertainment
  • Analytics & BI
  • B2C
  • Not AI
  • Hobby / open-source project
  • Productivity
  • User Experience
  • Analytics

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Could you build this?

Partial Building the analytics frontend and charting dashboard is easy, but continuously ingesting, aggregating, and querying historical player statistics for tens of thousands of Steam games requires non-trivial background ETL and time-series infrastructure.

What it would actually take: The backend requires an asynchronous worker queue that regularly polls Steam's Web API and SteamSpy/SteamCharts endpoints while managing strict rate limits. The data layer must handle massive time-series metrics efficiently, using databases like TimescaleDB, ClickHouse, or InfluxDB with rollup aggregations to power fast historical charts. Managing API quotas, worker scaling, and storage optimization for millions of concurrent data points requires dedicated data and backend engineering.

Competitors

Other products that read as similar to this one : 68 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.

Attention rank: #53 of 69 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).

Launched 191 days after the earliest competitor.

  • GaugeDB · ph · 2026-09-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
  • MyGameList · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • Steam-Game-Analytics · github · 2026-11-08 · 29 upvotes · similarity 0.41
  • steam-live-charts · github · 2026-09-22 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.40
  • Roast My Stats · ph · 2026-09-12 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.39
  • IndiePilot · ph · 2026-10-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • Steam-Data-PC-Widget · github · 2026-10-20 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.38
  • VALUESTATS · ph · 2026-09-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.38

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