Posts grew 6x since ChatGPT, but success rate remained relatively flat
Details
- External ID
- 49279207
- Source
- HN
- Company
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- Product
- Posts grew 6x since ChatGPT, but success rate remained relatively flat
- Website domain
- orangecrumbs.com
- Launched
- Aug. 12, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 11
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.6088709677419355
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 10, 2026, 5:32 a.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- alternative social platforms and feed readers
- Vertical
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- Function
- —
- Audience
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- AI stance
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- Project type
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- Normalized one-liner
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- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes This is a blog post and data analysis analyzing Show HN post volumes and success metrics, easily replicated by scraping the Hacker News Firebase/Algolia API and plotting the data.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: VSCode native git integration, Cursor, Zed
Concerns raised: Poor UX with many repos open simultaneously, Difficulty making niche tools generic enough for broader appeal, Solving problems already solved by existing tools
Feature requests: Git UI optimized for monorepos/many submodules, Team-specific programming workflow features
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 66 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #30 of 67 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 285 days after the earliest competitor.
- I got 50% of my traffic from ChatGPT instead of Google · hn · 2025-12-09 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Show HN posts p/month more than doubled in the last year · hn · 2026-01-26 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- 150+10 free Ready-to-Use ChatGPT Prompts · ph · 2026-09-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ChatGPT-i18n · github · 2026-09-09 · 59 upvotes · similarity 0.40
- ChatGPT-6 Astra · ph · 2026-09-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- mcp-extensions · github · 2026-09-29 · 403 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- I stopped ChatGPT from using em dashes · hn · 2025-10-31 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.39
- ChatPCBridge · github · 2026-09-26 · 39 upvotes · similarity 0.38
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.