787 tools for developers. 5 for nurses. Two weeks of tracking 14,000 indie launches.

I'm building a thing that watches products from 12 launch platforms and checks every one of them daily to see if it's still running. 14,303 in there right now. Over a thousand new ones come in every day and get analyzed with AI to work out what they are and who would need them.

That last part is where the interesting data lives, so here it is.

Every product gets filed under who does the work. Live over tracked:

Developers 711/787
Marketers 377/404
Freelancers 341/389
Students 292/322
Designers 128/141
Online sellers 120/127
Teachers 92/102
Construction & trades 91/96
Hiring & HR 88/96
Clinics 83/92
Restaurants 64/71
Musicians 48/54
Salons & barbers 41/46
Accountants 29/34
Shipping & logistics 29/37
Real estate 22/23
Legal 21/25
Aviation 16/17
Vets 6/7
Security 5/5
Nurses 5/5

787 tools for developers. 5 for nurses. There are something like 28 million nurses working right now. That list isn't a map of where the problems are, it's a map of who's building.

The second number worth sitting with. 4,859 products have no shipping streak and no Hacker News mention. Nothing has happened to them since the day they launched. That's about a third of everything tracked.

Some go fast. There are rows in the went-quiet list marked "watched for 1 days", which means we found them on launch day and by the next morning the site was already gone.

I don't think the lesson is "go build for nurses". Clinics have 92 tools and plenty of those will die too, because you don't reach a nurse from a launch post. The lesson is smaller. Where you have distribution and where the need is unmet are almost never the same place, and most of us pick the first one and call it validation.

There's already a page that shows all of this. It's rough and I'm still building it, but the shape is clear enough to talk about, because the same data answers three things a founder actually wants to know after launch day ends.

Who else is in my lane, and are they still moving. You pick a set of products and watch them. When they ship, when they go quiet, when someone outside the product brings them up somewhere public.

Which fields are actually moving. Not which are crowded. A field with 92 tools where nothing has shipped in a month is a completely different bet from a field with 30 where half of them shipped this week, and right now nobody can see the difference between those two.

And where to find people once the launch traffic is gone. That's the part nobody warns you about. Day one you get a few hundred visitors and day three you get eleven, and the people who were looking for exactly your thing show up in week six, on a day when nothing is pointing at you.

That last one is the business model, or the plan for one anyway. The site stays free for people looking for tools. Founders who want the view from the other side pay for it. Nothing is charged yet and I'd rather the data be worth paying for before I ask.

Caveat worth saying out loud. This is two weeks of data. Ask me in 90 days for a real survival curve.

Question for the room. If you've built for a field you don't work in, how did you get the first ten users?

tablif.com if you want to poke at the raw thing.