TRENDS · JUL 2026 · 2,852 CREATED · 0 FIRST SEEN
July: 2,852 GitHub repos indexed, 0 web debuts
Key figures
Only the first two figures count JUL 2026 itself. Clusters listed and overlaps listed are what this month's newsletter kept — the five fastest-growing groups and up to ten notable overlaps — not how many there were. All of these numbers were worked out once, on 2026-08-29, and are not recalculated when you open this page; the same query run today returns more, because the crawlers have kept finding projects that belong to JUL 2026.
Two different dates can put an entry in JUL 2026, and this page never adds them together. created counts entries by the creation date their source publishes — GitHub repos, in practice. first seen counts entries by the day our crawlers first met them, which is the only date the web-app builders give us for the apps they host — and the only one a store listing that publishes no release date carries either. One says when something was built; the other says when we found it, and a single combined number would quietly mean both.
Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and the sweep of 14–15 August broadened it by tens of thousands of apps in two days — nearly every first-seen date in the index comes from that sweep. Set this month against one from the other side of that line and you are measuring how far the index had reached, not how the market moved.
The staleness pair is diluted by the same population: an app found on a web-app builder has no update date at all, so it counts in the index total but can never be counted stale. Giving those apps a date did not fix that — a date we assigned is not an update the builder reported. Both percentages fall as more of those apps are confirmed, without a single project going quiet.
New products by category
- productivity 510 created · 0 first seen
- devtools 305 created · 0 first seen
- media-entertainment 233 created · 0 first seen
- education 202 created · 0 first seen
- finance 170 created · 0 first seen
- gaming 165 created · 0 first seen
- health 150 created · 0 first seen
- misc 149 created · 0 first seen
- industry-ops 142 created · 0 first seen
- ecommerce 113 created · 0 first seen
- security 101 created · 0 first seen
- social 81 created · 0 first seen
- food 73 created · 0 first seen
- content-ai 71 created · 0 first seen
- travel 55 created · 0 first seen
- analytics 48 created · 0 first seen
- customer-support 45 created · 0 first seen
- hr-recruiting 43 created · 0 first seen
- marketing 43 created · 0 first seen
- events 40 created · 0 first seen
- fitness 37 created · 0 first seen
- sports-recreation 22 created · 0 first seen
- real-estate 21 created · 0 first seen
- spirituality 15 created · 0 first seen
- legal 11 created · 0 first seen
- home-iot 7 created · 0 first seen
Both counts per category, kept apart for the reason above.
Fastest-growing clusters
- Shared expense-splitting apps +11 created · +0 first seen (203 total)
- Baby tracking and milestone apps +10 created · +0 first seen (174 total)
- AI companion roleplay chat apps +9 created · +0 first seen (209 total)
- Car Maintenance Tracker Apps +7 created · +0 first seen (128 total)
- Medication Schedules Mobile +6 created · +0 first seen (125 total)
Clusters are a map of where ideas crowd, not a census. Most products sit in no cluster at all, and the groups are redrawn from scratch every night — so a group can split, merge or disappear, and its size can change without a single product changing. The totals in brackets are the sizes recorded when this month was written; the names link to the group as it stands today, and where a rebuild has since split or renamed one, that link can lead nowhere.
“+” counts how many of a group's members belong to JUL 2026 — not how much the group grew. A group made up entirely of this month's projects shows every member as a gain. The two figures are the two dating bases, kept apart: a group can gain nothing but first-seen members, which means we found its apps this month, not that anyone built them this month.
Notable new collisions
- Shared expense-splitting apps gained +11 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Baby tracking and milestone apps gained +10 created · +0 first seen this month.
- AI companion roleplay chat apps gained +9 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Car Maintenance Tracker Apps gained +7 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Medication Schedules Mobile gained +6 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Wedding planning apps gained +6 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Photo-based plant care apps gained +5 created · +0 first seen this month.
- SVG pattern generators for pen plotters gained +4 created · +0 first seen this month.
- In-browser AI code generators gained +4 created · +0 first seen this month.
- AI React code generators gained +4 created · +0 first seen this month.
Same caution as above: these are crowded neighbourhoods, not a headcount, and the list stops at ten however many cleared the bar.
Top new entries by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
- sitepins 146★ devtools
- vibe-holding 113★ devtools
- DeepSec 88★ security
- bridgebench 119★ devtools
- LinkMap 39★ misc
- MindFlock 11★ devtools
- menagerai 11★ security
- vibe-resume-skill 44★ hr-recruiting
- thinkrail 24★ devtools
- OpenBcon 33★ productivity
Entries tagged first seen are here because we met them in JUL 2026, not because they were built in it. The rest are dated by their source's creation date.
Commentary
COMMENTARY
Written when this month's figures were, and left as it stands. It describes the index as it was that day, so any group it names may have been redrawn since.
Fastest growing
All new entries this month arrived via GitHub repositories—no web-app builder debuts. Shared expense-splitting apps led the fastest-growing clusters with 11 new members, reaching 203 total. Baby tracking added 10 to reach 174, AI companion roleplay gained 9 to reach 209, car maintenance trackers added 7 to reach 128, and medication schedules mobile added 6 to reach 125.
Overview
July indexed 2,852 new products—2,852 from GitHub repos, 0 from web-app builders. Productivity dominated with 510 new entries (all GitHub), followed by devtools (305), media-entertainment (233), education (202), and finance (170). The remaining 21 categories accounted for the rest, with health (150) and misc (149) among the secondary tiers.
Spotlight
sitepins (devtools) topped new entries with 146 stars and a 0.647 traction score, followed by vibe-holding (devtools, 113 stars, 0.627) and bridgebench (devtools, 119 stars, 0.598). All top entries originated from GitHub—no web-app debuts cracked the highest-traction newcomers. DeepSec, LinkMap, vibe-resume-skill, thinkrail, OpenBcon, MindFlock, and menagerai completed the top 10.
Staleness
Of 91,082 indexed products, 9,809 register as stale (10.8%) and 14,954 as abandoned (16.4%). Declining activity spans a meaningful share of the index.
Notable collisions
Ten clusters qualified as collisions with 3+ new entries, all from GitHub repositories. The top three were shared expense-splitting (11 new, 203 total), baby tracking (10, 174), and AI companion roleplay (9, 209). Seven others ranged from 7 members down to 4: car maintenance trackers (7, 128), medication schedules (6, 125), wedding planning (6, 66), plant care (5, 146), SVG pattern generators (4, 4), in-browser AI code generators (4, 4), and AI React code generators (4, 8).