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.

Hi everyone! After Karpathy's HackerTube and HackerBooks, I wanted the same thing for apps, so I had Claude build it (Opus 5.5 on extra high thinking, with Fable 5.1 and Astra doing review and QA).

What's inside:

- Every iOS and Android app linked on HN since 2009, about 6,500 still on a store

- Ranked by HN score: comments, submission points and comments, and how many different people mentioned it

- Week, month and year top lists

- An HN mood for each app, from a sentiment label on every mention, done by Opus 5.5

- Insights, like Show HN app launches being up 4.6x since ChatGPT

- Free, open source, and the full dataset is downloadable

If your app is missing or matched to the wrong thing, tell me. I'll update it weekly.

Looks awesome! But what happened here? 🤔

@tirskih_elisaveta Ha, good catch! That's July 2014, when HN gave Show HN its own page and a link in the top bar (dang announced it here). Suddenly way more people were posting their stuff, and Show HN basically doubled overnight. App launches went from ~25 a month to 72. Took about a year to calm down 😄