Ship Clock
See which Show HN posts gain traction fastest
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Ship Clock - See which Show HN posts gain traction fastest

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Ship Clock is a real-time velocity dashboard for Show HN posts. It fetches live data from the Hacker News API, computes points-per-hour for each Show HN submission, and ranks them by traction speed. Instead of scrolling through pages of posts, Ship Clock gives you one clear leaderboard: which launches are gaining momentum right now. It auto-refreshes every two minutes so you can watch trends develop.

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Built this as a quick experiment to see if velocity is a better signal than raw points for discovering interesting Show HN launches. The whole thing is a single static site with HTML, CSS, and JS. No server, no database. It pulls from the HN Firebase API on page load and computes velocity client-side.