Product Hunt launches on October 18, 2026
Inbox Zero finished #1 with 371 upvotes, ahead of MyLens and shim-cli. Here are the day's 41 top launches with 2,425 upvotes between them, across 18 categories, Productivity the busiest with 13.
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1. Inbox Zero
371 upvotesOpen-source Superhuman alternative
Inbox Zero Mail is an open-source email client for Gmail and Outlook. Fast, keyboard-first, and free to use, on web, Mac, Windows and iPhone, with all your accounts in one inbox. Add AI for $20/mo: every email is sorted, and replies are…

2. MyLens
216 upvotes1-1 Live Presentations at Scale with AI.
MyLens is AI for live 1-1 presentations at scale. You add your raw sources, say what matters, and invite your audience. MyLens AI gives every person a live, private presentation, answers their questions using your sources, and create new…

3. shim-cli
194 upvotesSee what your coding agent sends. Mask what you can.
An open-source hook and local proxy for Claude Code, Codex, Copilot CLI and VS Code. In Claude Code it masks secrets and personal data in tool results before the model reads them, and shim watch shows what a session sent and cost. No…
Open Source1 maker
4. Tower 18 for Mac
157 upvotesThe most powerful Git client with a better CLI experience
Tower 18 for Mac is here! This update is all about improving the Tower experience in the terminal: the Tower Command Line Tool can now take you straight to any view in Tower (History, Blame, the Working Copy, Branches Review, and more)…
Mac1 maker
5. MeetPaw
137 upvotesInstant meetings from your mac menu bar
MeetPaw is a lightweight macOS menu-bar app that puts your meetings one click away. Spin up an instant Google Meet, Zoom, or Microsoft Teams link the moment you need it. The link is created, copied to your clipboard, and ready to share…

6. XBOX Nano Controller
120 upvotesPocket-sized wireless gamepad with all 18 inputs
Take play to more places with the XBOX Nano Controller. Fit more play in your everyday in a smaller form factor. Connect via Bluetooth & play across devices.
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7. 3AM Super Intelligence
103 upvotesProduction incidents: investigated, proven, fixed
Meet 3AM, the AI on-call engineer for systems you can’t rewrite. It finds the root cause, rehearses the fix, and resolves the incident with one tap in Slack, all from inside your network.
Developer Tools1 maker
8. Tomo for ChatGPT
96 upvotesAsk anything. Then play it, Duolingo-style.
Ask ChatGPT for a Tomo course on black holes and a game drops into the chat. Quick questions, hearts on the line. Any topic, even the chat you’re in. Pick your teacher, from The Professor to The Pirate. Add Tomo from Plugins in ChatGPT.…
Education1 maker
9. Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse
93 upvotesAmazon's personal AI memory, now on your wrist or phone
Bee Frontier and Bee Eclipse are Amazon's new personal AI devices that help you remember what matters. Frontier is a wearable for your wrist or clothing, while Eclipse attaches magnetically to your phone. Both capture conversations and…

10. Openbroca
94 upvotesLightweight AI dictation for Mac that sounds like you
Openbroca is a native Swift AI dictation app for Mac, with a ~6.5 MB download. Press a shortcut, speak naturally, and get clean text right where you're typing. It removes fillers and repetition while keeping your meaning and tone, with no…

11. Vampire Crawlers™
89 upvotesThe Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors
From the somehow triple-BAFTA‑winning creators of Vampire Survivors, Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors turns the snowballing thrill of Survivors into a hyper turn‑based, card‑driven BLOBBER with rogue-lite…

12. Popcraft
93 upvotesGenerate video, images & audio from any AI agent
Paste one URL into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or Claude Code and your agent can plan, cost-preview and generate video, images, music and SFX with Seedance 2.5, Veo 3.1, Kling 3.0, Nano Banana Pro and 20+ more. OAuth sign-in, no API key. 100…

13. PasteKit
88 upvotesFormat JSON, YAML & SQL privately
Paste JSON, YAML, XML, SQL, CSV or code and get formatted, validated output instantly. 58 formats, 48 converters and JSON tools (diff, schema, repair, jq). Everything runs in your browser, enforced by a strict CSP, so nothing you paste…

14. Gravity Notes
87 upvotesOne list of notes, for you and your AI agents
Gravity is a notes app built on Andrej Karpathy's append-and-review note. Everything goes into one list, newest at the top. Old notes sink, and a swipe brings one back. You pay once, and your notes stay on your devices. New since the last…
Android1 maker
15. Krea 3
82 upvotesKrea's AI image model: 2K edits in under 8 seconds
Krea 3 is a fast AI image editing model built for creators and production teams. Edit images in under 8 seconds at native 2K resolution for just $0.06 per image. Change backgrounds, objects, materials, or lighting while preserving the…
Artificial Intelligence1 maker
16. SpeechFast
82 upvotesLocal Whisper for Mac
Hold fn and talk. SpeechFast types clean text at your cursor, in any app. Everything runs on your Mac. The speech model is downloaded once; after that, no audio and no text ever leaves your machine. It works offline, on a plane, behind a…
Productivity1 maker
17. Latch
80 upvotesThe app blocker you unlock by walking to your key
Latch locks distracting apps until you scan your key, and the key lives where you have to walk: an NFC sticker on the fridge, a printed QR code, or a number of steps. No account, no ads, no analytics. iPhone and Android; Pro is $9.99 once.
Android1 maker
18. Zalcro
37 upvotesThe pre-build planning tool for vibe coders and AI builders
Zalcro is the pre-build planning tool for AI app builders. Jumping straight into prompting usually leads to a doom loop where the AI loses context and breaks your app. Zalcro solves this by mapping out your architecture before you begin.…
Productivity1 maker19. Startories
21 upvotesThe AI engine that finds your next B2B customers
Startories is an AI engine that catches B2B buyers while they're actively looking for solutions. It monitors Reddit, X, Product Hunt, directories and search for fresh buying signals, qualifies each company against your ICP, finds the…
Email Marketing1 maker
20. Evane
15 upvotesEvery Event Cognitively Convened
Evane is an AI agent designed for government-enterprise collaboration and complex, multi-stakeholder programs, where alignment, accountability and speed determine outcomes. It replaces fragmented communication with a unified data…
Artificial Intelligence1 maker21. Pairon
14 upvotesGiving AI its multiplayer Moment
AI agents move fast; context gets lost between chats. Pairon brings your team and locally running coding agents into a shared conversation. Teammates can add constraints mid-task, run tasks in parallel, hand work across computers, and…
Productivity3 makers
22. Syllaby Mobile App
22 upvotesSave Up to 70% Of Your Content-Creation Time on the Go
Syllaby is your all-in-one AI studio for viral video creation. Instantly turn ideas into faceless or cinematic content with trending topics, ready-to-film scripts, and studio-quality visuals. From planning to publishing, Syllaby…
Android1 maker
23. TypeKey
12 upvotesAI writing tools and a keyboard for your iPhone
Paste your text, tap a tool, copy the result: humanize AI text, paraphrase, fix grammar, summarize, or write a cover letter or an email. No keyboard setup needed. Or turn on the TypeKey keyboard to reply, translate and fix spelling in…

24. Ellie — Elephant in the Room
13 upvotesA deaf baby elephant who fingerspells any word in ASL
Ellie is a deaf baby elephant who signs with her trunk. Give her any word and she'll fingerspell it for you — one letter at a time, with big, friendly captions. Choose your manual alphabet: ASL, Libras, or BSL (her sister Tunk helps with…
Kids1 maker
25. KelpShot
15 upvotesScreenshots that say what you mean.
KelpShot is a fast, private screenshot tool for macOS: capture, annotate, redact, recognize text, and share in seconds. One-time purchase, no subscription.
Productivity1 maker
26. The Soapbox Email
8 upvotesWhat will you say to 1 million people?
Every morning, one subscriber is picked at random to write a single email. It goes to the whole list. Tomorrow, it could be you. What happens if you give one random person an enormous platform to use their voice?
Email1 maker27. Buildhorn: CI/CD Alerts
8 upvotesKnow the instant your build breaks
Buildhorn watches your CI pipelines and notifies you the moment a build fails, right on your Apple device. Get push notifications with custom sounds for failures and turn your home screen into a build-status dashboard.
Software Engineering1 maker
28. DOT Audio Recorder
8 upvotesRecord anything your Mac plays, with key, tempo and chords
Press Cmd-R while anything plays on your Mac (a YouTube video, Apple Music, a preset demo) and DOT keeps it: trimmed, filed in a library, with its key, tempo and chords. Drag clips into your DAW, or export the chords as MIDI. DOT records…
Mac1 maker
29. File Converter
7 upvotesFree Online PDF & File Converter : Simple, Fast, Secure
Meet FileCorner, your all-in-one toolkit for PDFs, documents, and images. Merge, convert, organize, protect, and customize PDFs, work with different file formats, and enhance images with built-in image tools. Explore AI-powered features…
30. NakkoBroker
7 upvotesZero-brokerage rental discovery across Indian tech hubs
NakkoBroker eliminates broker commissions in Hyderabad, Bengaluru, Chennai, Pune & Vizag. Discover flats directly on an interactive map, schedule visits, chat with verified owners, and build a portable Good Renter reputation badge.
Web App1 maker
31. Charter
6 upvotesOpen-source Composio alternative for AI agents
A Python library that turns any API into an agent tool you own. No third-party server, no per-call pricing, no rate limits on top. Your rules decide what the agent sees and sends, and a call that breaks one never reaches the API.
Open Source1 maker
32. HealthPilot
6 upvotesTurn Apple Health data into clear, personalized guidance.
HealthPilot transforms your raw Apple Health metrics into actionable daily insights. Designed with a privacy-first, on-device architecture, all your personal health data is processed entirely on your phone—never sent to external servers.…
Health & Fitness1 maker
33. What the Fetch
5 upvotesA network agent in your browser
What the Fetch is a network agent in your browser for debugging web apps. Record requests and console output, ask AI what failed, and follow citations to the evidence. Export HAR, cURL and recordings. Try limited included AI or connect…
Chrome Extensions1 maker
34. MySiteGPT Assistant
5 upvotesCreate an AI assistant from your website content
Turn your website content into an AI assistant that answers your visitor questions using your information. Help visitors find information find answers faster and support your business with automated conversations.
SaaS1 maker
35. GmailClass - Gmail Email Classifier
5 upvotesGmailClass adds categorized labels to emails in your inbox
Your inbox, labeled in your own words! GmailClass uses Jev AI to match emails to categories you describe, then adds colorful labels right inside Gmail. Spot invoices, travel updates, newsletters, or whatever matters to you at a glance!…
Email1 maker
36. Holdy
4 upvotesAI agent that turns more trials into paying customers
Holdy analyzes how accounts use your SaaS, finds where activation and trial conversion stall, and delivers a GitHub PR or in-app tip ready for your approval. It then measures each change against a control group to show its impact on…
Productivity1 maker
37. Amy
6 upvotesAI tutor with live voice, interactive visuals & quizzes
Meet Amy, an AI-powered tutor built to make learning more interactive and personalized. Go beyond simple text explanations with live voice tutoring, interactive whiteboards, visual diagrams, quizzes, and AI-generated learning materials…
Education1 maker
38. Viewlify
5 upvotesSee exactly why any TikTok blows up, in seconds
Paste any TikTok @handle and see which videos really broke out. Viewlify scores every video by its multiple: how many times it beat the creator's own usual views. Then it shows the hooks, formats and posting patterns behind each breakout…
Social Media1 maker
39. AudioEnhancerMAX
6 upvotesLocal audio editing with AI governance built in
Clean, transcribe and edit audio on your Mac with AI governance built into the workflow. Review and approve proposed speech edits, undo decisions and preserve the original recording. Processing reports and Project Capsules document…
Mac1 maker
40. VoicedByMe
4 upvotesAny text, voiced by you: AI agents, audiobooks, messages
VoicedByMe reads any text aloud in your own cloned voice, made from a 20-second recording, or in one of 35 ready-made voices, from natural narrators to a pirate. It all runs on your computer and nothing is uploaded. AI agents like Claude…
Productivity1 maker41. The Whole Day
4 upvotesNews that ends
One page of science going right. One paragraph per story. Nothing grim, ever. Edition No. 565 — 27 stories, about 12 minutes.
News1 maker
This day's categories
Questions
- What was #1 on Product Hunt on October 18, 2026?
- Inbox Zero ("Open-source Superhuman alternative"), with 371 upvotes. MyLens (#2) and shim-cli (#3) followed.
- How many launches are listed here?
- 41: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 40 makers on file for them, 2 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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