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I analyzed 10 years of Hacker News data (2016-2025) to track Show HN submission trends.- Show HN posts went from ~900/month (2016-2019) to 3,315 in Dec 2025- Share of all stories: 2.4% (2016) → 12.8% (Dec 2025)- Notable spikes: COVID-19 (2020), AI boom (2023), and accelerating growth through 2024-2025Data source: HackerBook (144k Show HN posts / 3.4M total stories)
HN · launched Jan 11, 2026 · 18 upvotes (top 36%) · 0 views
Niche: specialized analytics platforms · 141 launches, 4 in the last 7 days ▼ -60% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes This is a data analysis and visualization project querying publicly available Hacker News datasets (via the official API or Google BigQuery public datasets) and plotting the results.
Discussion
4 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: New public GitHub repositories haven't increased much despite AI hype, Unclear if AI adoption is real growth or just reallocation of existing projects, Domain registrations flat, suggesting limited new venture creation
Feature requests: Update analysis post-Opus 4.5 and late 2025 model releases, Track proportion of AI submissions over time on HN
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 155 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #64 of 156 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 66 days after the earliest competitor.
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