Product Hunt launches on October 17, 2026

NitroStack finished #1 with 255 upvotes, ahead of Caldera and Notion: Context for your agents. Here are the day's 39 top launches with 2,227 upvotes between them, across 20 categories, Productivity the busiest with 9.

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  1. NitroStack

    1. NitroStack

    255 upvotes

    Build, test, and deploy MCP servers in one place

    NitroStack is the full-stack platform for building production-ready MCP servers and AI apps. Build with open-source TypeScript & Python SDKs, test and debug visually in NitroStack Studio, orchestrate agent workflows with NitroStack…

    Open Sourcenitrostack.ai10 makers, 9 with emails
  2. Caldera

    2. Caldera

    197 upvotes

    Your Obsidian vault as a living profile and linked garden

    Caldera turns your Obsidian vault into a public page that updates itself, and a digital garden of notes you grow in public. Plant a note and it becomes a page marked seedling, budding or evergreen, with a license you choose. Link to a…

  3. Notion: Context for your agents

    Switch AI agents without re-explaining your work

    Notion 3.8 turns your workspace into the shared context layer for every AI agent your team uses. Unlike chat tools that start from zero each time you switch models, Notion keeps your docs, databases, and Skills in one place any MCP agent…

    Productivitynotion.com1 maker
  4. Emochi

    4. Emochi

    162 upvotes

    Voice journal to understand yourself through art and science

    Emochi turns your voice notes into a living, generative character that reflects your emotional world. Vent about your day, untangle a thought, or check in with yourself. Your words are transcribed instantly, helping you notice patterns in…

    iOS1 maker
  5. Train with Pasta

    5. Train with Pasta

    129 upvotes

    A personal trainer powered by Apple Intelligence

    Pasta is a personal trainer in your pocket. Ask for "a 30 minute upper body workout", and it'll build it for you. While you train, the app uses voice as a guide, so you can focus on pushing yourself hard. It does plans too! Tell it what…

    iOS1 maker
  6. LooGo

    6. LooGo

    117 upvotes

    Find public restrooms fast

    LooGo helps you find public restrooms instantly when you're out in the city. Built natively for Android and Wear OS using OpenStreetMap data, it gives you quick access to door codes, pricing, opening hours, and accessibility details. No…

    Android1 maker
  7. Craft Agents

    7. Craft Agents

    114 upvotes

    The world's most powerful agents, with the UX they deserve

    Craft Agents is fully open source and runs locally on your machine — your data and keys never leave it. Bring any AI provider: Claude, GPT, Gemini, or local models. Agents connect to your real tools (MCP, APIs, local files) and act across…

  8. Ultracite v8

    8. Ultracite v8

    107 upvotes

    The linter and formatter for agentic development

    Agents write most of the code now. Ultracite is the linter and formatter for agentic development, a zero-config preset for Oxlint, Biome, and ESLint that keeps agent-written code consistent and type-safe. Ultracite checks every edit…

    Open Sourceultracite.ai1 maker
  9. Unfenced

    9. Unfenced

    95 upvotes

    Land for sale that actually borders public land

    Checks ~700,000 U.S. listings every week against official public-land maps and shows the ~13,600 homes and land parcels that actually touch national forest, BLM and state land. Each one is measured from its county parcel boundary: the…

    Home1 maker
  10. Draper

    10. Draper

    82 upvotes

    Validate, plan, and launch a business, one step at a time.

    Turn your idea into a real product. Use Draper to find out if your idea holds up, and then work through the next steps: business plan, brand, product, landing page, first customers — all in one place.

    Branding1 maker
  11. Spiralens

    11. Spiralens

    85 upvotes

    Golden ratio camera that tells you where to move your phone

    Spiralens is an Android camera for people who never learned composition. Tap your subject, follow the arrow, and shoot when the ring turns green: the subject sits on the golden point and the phone is level. Guides for golden spiral, phi…

    Android1 maker
  12. Salience

    12. Salience

    83 upvotes

    See every request to your website and how it responds.

    Salience turns the server and CDN data you already generate into a live view of every request, response and issue, from people, search engines and AI bots.

    Analyticssalience.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  13. Parrot

    13. Parrot

    83 upvotes

    Smart Meeting Assistant for Mac that helps during the call

    Parrot is a free, open-source meeting recorder for Mac that helps during the call, not after it. No bot joins: it records what your Mac hears and transcribes on device. When a client asks something your pricing sheet or FAQ covers, the…

    Mac1 maker
  14. Earnote

    14. Earnote

    81 upvotes

    Lecture & meeting notes, written on your device

    Record a lecture, meeting or your own explanation – Earnote transcribes it with Whisper and writes a structured note with tasks, flashcards and a PDF study sheet. Speech recognition runs on your iPhone, iPad or Mac, and on iPhone 15 Pro…

    Productivityearnote.dev
  15. Step 5 Preview

    15. Step 5 Preview

    79 upvotes

    600B open weights, trained for long-running agents

    Step 5 Preview is StepFun's open-weight MoE for coding, financial research and long-running agents. It has 600B total parameters, 27B active per token and a 1M-token context, with deployment support for vLLM, SGLang and Transformers.

  16. Korinotch

    16. Korinotch

    77 upvotes

    Your MacBook notch, turned into a command center

    Media HUD, notifications, file tray, clipboard, keep awake, keyboard lock and widgets, all in the notch. Native SwiftUI for macOS 14+. Free for 14 days, then $11.50 lifetime. Eleven of the utilities are free standalone menu-bar apps.

    Mackorinotch.com
  17. CrewTower Mod for Claude Code

    Talk to Claude Code right from your MacBook notch

    A Claude Code mod that links every Claude session to CrewTower in your Mac's notch. Type Claude's next prompt on its card, stop the turn, compact it, and see what fills its context. Terminal and Claude Desktop. Stays on your Mac, off…

  18. OptimAI Studio

    18. OptimAI Studio

    37 upvotes

    Your AI creative agent, from idea to final cut

    Turn an idea into a connected creative project. Direct an AI agent to plan films, generate images, video and music, then refine them in a browser editor. Create illustrated stories, publish websites and build playable games—all in OptimAI…

  19. NEWCV.IO

    19. NEWCV.IO

    19 upvotes

    Stand out. Get interviews.

    NEWCV.IO is a career application platform for building, tailoring and auditing professional resumes. Create from scratch, import your existing career information, use Role to Resume to generate around a target role, Job Matcher Resume to…

    Productivitynewcv.io1 maker
  20. Leepik

    20. Leepik

    19 upvotes

    Bank PDFs to Tally, with ledger mapping that learns

    Turn bank-statement PDFs into Tally-ready accounting entries. Built for Indian accountants. Open beta: anyone can join, with all features free throughout beta. Leepik learns your ledger choices, reducing repeat work each month. Review…

    Productivity2 makers
  21. KuikCode

    21. KuikCode

    16 upvotes

    Beautiful QR codes you'll never reprint

    Create dynamic QR codes with branded designs, change the destination after printing, generate bulk QR code batches from a CSV, and track every scan in realtime. KuikCode makes dynamic QR codes that look like your brand and keep working…

    Design Toolskuikcode.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  22. 10X.ing

    22. 10X.ing

    15 upvotes

    Get new customers for your startup - on autopilot

    Enter your website and automatically get marketing opportunities across cold email, social content, SEO, backlinks and AI/LLM SEO.

    Marketing1 maker, 1 with an email
  23. Laundro Cafe

    23. Laundro Cafe

    15 upvotes

    A cozy focus timer in a laundromat shared with strangers

    Laundro Cafe is a quiet, shared laundromat in your browser. Start a washer or dryer as a focus timer, play lofi on the TV, brew coffee, and leave a handwritten note for a stranger. See other visitors through their spinning machines. Free…

  24. RefurbMe Import Costs

    24. RefurbMe Import Costs

    12 upvotes

    What a US purchase really costs delivered to 16 countries

    Buying in the US and shipping home? See forwarder fees, shipping, duty and tax for 16 countries, with 6 US forwarders ranked by delivered total. Phones, laptops, clothes and more. Every page links its sources. Free, no signup.

  25. Killer Krakens

    25. Killer Krakens

    10 upvotes

    One boat. Depth charges. The whole deep rising at you.

    Killer Krakens is a free browser arcade game from The Night Crew, our animated show about janitors in space. In the pilot, the crew plays this game — so we built it for real. One boat, a rack of depth charges, and the whole deep rising to…

    Web App1 maker
  26. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt

    26. Nemotron 3.5 Bolt

    11 upvotes

    Run everyday agentic tasks locally on a 24GB GPU

    Nemotron 3.5 Bolt 24GB is NVIDIA’s model for running everyday agentic tasks locally on NVIDIA RTX and DGX Spark hardware. It compresses Nemotron 3.5 Super VL from 120B total, 12B active to 74B total, 9B active, sized to fit a 24GB memory…

  27. HonestExpenses AI

    27. HonestExpenses AI

    9 upvotes

    Say what you spent. AI helps. It's tracked. Any platform.

    Say it, snap it or text it: expenses tracked in seconds with AI. One sentence becomes several transactions, a receipt photo becomes its lines, a Telegram message is saved in two taps. AI only drafts; you check. No bank login, no ads. Free…

  28. WorkerDock

    28. WorkerDock

    9 upvotes

    All your local Cloudflare Workers projects in one Mac app

    Free, open source Mac app for local Cloudflare Workers. It finds your Workers, Pages, Astro and EmDash projects, starts and stops them on a free port, streams their logs, and shows the D1, KV and R2 bindings each one uses. Lives in your…

    Open Sourceworkerdock.app
  29. Needl Vinyl

    29. Needl Vinyl

    7 upvotes

    Your vinyl collection, with live lyrics from your turntable

    Most vinyl apps stop at cataloging. Needl is built for the moment you drop the needle. Put a record on, tap Listen, and Live Lyrics follow along in time with your turntable. Scan a barcode or the sleeve to find your exact pressing and…

    iOSneedlvinyl.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  30. OKstays

    30. OKstays

    7 upvotes

    Hotels ranked by real comfort, not commission

    Tired of noisy rooms, broken AC and uncomfy beds? OKstays scores 30,000+ hotels in 199 destinations on 67 comfort signals, like quiet, beds, shower, WiFi and AC, and ranks them by one Comfort Score. A hotel that fails a must-have (clean…

    Travel1 maker
  31. Rafiky

    31. Rafiky

    6 upvotes

    AI Infrastructure for Global Tourism

    Rafiky is an AI-powered intelligence platform for global tourism, combining a travel marketplace, specialized business software, AI agents, and data-driven insights. Travelers discover and book local experiences, while tourism providers…

    SaaS1 maker
  32. Lighthouse

    32. Lighthouse

    6 upvotes

    Follow a glowing lighthouse to slow your breathing

    Lighthouse is a one-screen breathing session. A lamp brightens as you breathe in for four seconds and softens as you breathe out for six, while a quiet voice, the Keeper, says a few words at the right moments and then goes silent. Choose…

    Web App1 maker
  33. BuiltList

    33. BuiltList

    6 upvotes

    The home of everything built in Sri Lanka

    BuiltList is the home for products, AI agents and bots built by Sri Lankans. Finding local tools used to mean scattered Facebook posts and word of mouth. Now it's one searchable place. Ask AI search finds what you need in plain words, and…

  34. Atonomuse

    34. Atonomuse

    5 upvotes

    Your Instagram and Facebook, written and posted for you

    Paste your website. Atonomuse learns how your business talks, then makes image posts, carousels and animated reels for Instagram and Facebook, and publishes them on your schedule. A critic scores every post before it can go out and sends…

    Social Mediaatonomuse.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  35. Scowld

    35. Scowld

    5 upvotes

    An open-source AI companion for voice, vision and chat

    Meet Scowld, an open-source AI companion for iPhone and iPad. Talk or type with an animated character, add optional camera context, customize its name and personality, and revisit chats saved on your device. Bring your own AI and speech…

    iOSscowld.xyz1 maker, 1 with an email
  36. Almirah

    36. Almirah

    5 upvotes

    A little cabinet that lives on your Mac’s desktop

    Almirah is a little cabinet that lives on your Mac’s desktop. Drop in documents, screenshots, files, photos, videos and notes, keep private ones in a Touch ID locker, and drag them out whenever a form asks.

    Productivitygetalmirah.com1 maker
  37. AlienMail

    37. AlienMail

    5 upvotes

    AI-first outreach. Upload leads, hit send, AI does the rest

    Most outreach tools make you do the work: write sequences, configure warmup, guess send timing. Alien Mail flips that. Alien AI learns your business, writes your sequences, and sets up warmup and send timing automatically. You upload your…

    Salesalienmail.io1 maker, 1 with an email
  38. ShareSwitch

    38. ShareSwitch

    5 upvotes

    Switch what you screen-share without stopping the share

    ShareSwitch mirrors any window into one window you share in Teams, Zoom or Meet. Hold Ctrl+Alt and click another window: your call sees it instantly, without topping or re-sharing. Free, open source, no account. Windows 10 & 11.

    Windows1 maker
  39. Lyrumi

    39. Lyrumi

    4 upvotes

    AI Song Generator & Creator Social Network

    Write what the song is about (a feeling, an inside joke, a name), pick a genre, and Lyrumi makes the whole thing: lyrics, music, vocals and cover art, in 9 languages. Then share it: publish to the feed of new songs, climb the charts, read…

    Music1 maker

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Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on October 17, 2026?
NitroStack ("Build, test, and deploy MCP servers in one place"), with 255 upvotes. Caldera (#2) and Notion: Context for your agents (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
39: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 43 makers on file for them, 16 with a work email.
Which time zone is the day in?
Pacific time, as Product Hunt runs its leaderboard: a day starts at midnight in San Francisco.

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