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The iOS and Android apps Hacker News talks about, ranked
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Every iOS and Android app linked on Hacker News since 2009, about 6,500 still on a store. Ranked by HN score, with week, month and year lists, an HN mood for each app, and links to the threads that mentioned it. Free and open source.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 6 upvotes (top 4%) · 0 views
Niche: software discovery and resource directories · 172 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -31% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Marketplace
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Open Source
- GitHub
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Could you build this?
Yes It pulls HN submissions through the public API, looks up app store listings, and ranks the results in a web UI, which is a standard data pipeline and listing site.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 123 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #13 of 124 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 362 days after the earliest competitor.
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