TRENDS · AUG 2026 · 19,295 CREATED · 25,676 FIRST SEEN
August: 19,295 Created, 25,676 First Seen
Key figures
Only the first two figures count AUG 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 2026-09-02, 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 AUG 2026.
Two different dates can put an entry in AUG 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 3,281 created · 3,133 first seen
- education 1,470 created · 2,023 first seen
- gaming 1,274 created · 1,933 first seen
- media-entertainment 1,139 created · 1,898 first seen
- finance 1,199 created · 1,766 first seen
- ecommerce 1,179 created · 1,507 first seen
- devtools 1,503 created · 1,037 first seen
- misc 811 created · 1,568 first seen
- industry-ops 1,190 created · 910 first seen
- content-ai 679 created · 1,227 first seen
- health 726 created · 1,133 first seen
- social 720 created · 1,007 first seen
- marketing 413 created · 785 first seen
- travel 388 created · 770 first seen
- events 361 created · 770 first seen
- analytics 437 created · 647 first seen
- hr-recruiting 452 created · 602 first seen
- food 397 created · 609 first seen
- security 467 created · 328 first seen
- sports-recreation 226 created · 431 first seen
- real-estate 207 created · 421 first seen
- spirituality 135 created · 417 first seen
- fitness 233 created · 227 first seen
- customer-support 224 created · 221 first seen
- legal 93 created · 219 first seen
- home-iot 91 created · 87 first seen
Both counts per category, kept apart for the reason above.
Fastest-growing clusters
- Desktop AI model wrappers +75 created · +0 first seen (76 total)
- Game cheat tools +67 created · +2 first seen (69 total)
- Job application trackers +20 created · +37 first seen (145 total)
- Weather forecast apps +3 created · +43 first seen (54 total)
- Islamic prayer & Quran apps +11 created · +34 first seen (103 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 AUG 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
- Desktop AI model wrappers gained +75 created · +0 first seen this month.
- Game cheat tools gained +67 created · +2 first seen this month.
- Job application trackers gained +20 created · +37 first seen this month.
- Weather forecast apps gained +3 created · +43 first seen this month.
- Islamic prayer & Quran apps gained +11 created · +34 first seen this month.
- Codes Generating Managing gained +5 created · +31 first seen this month.
- AI readiness assessment platforms gained +0 created · +34 first seen this month.
- Links Web Organize gained +21 created · +12 first seen this month.
- Audio Transcription and Text-to-Speech Apps gained +3 created · +29 first seen this month.
- General-purpose Discord community bots gained +29 created · +3 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.
- dsh-desktop 22.6k★ productivity
- openanalytics 309★ analytics
- omacosy 603★ productivity
- dsh-infinite-gen-2 680★ content-ai
- Echo-Music 671★ media-entertainment
- blobatar 789★ misc
- rome 448★ devtools
- deepseek-harness-desktop 1.5k★ content-ai
- DSH-Desktop-EAC 1.5k★ content-ai
- Deepseek-Harness-EAC 1.4k★ devtools
Entries tagged first seen are here because we met them in AUG 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
Five clusters led growth this month. Desktop AI model wrappers grew fastest with 75 new members, all 75 dated by creation and none by first sighting. Game cheat tools added 69 (67 created, 2 first-seen), job application trackers added 57 (20 created, 37 first-seen), weather forecast apps added 46 (3 created, 43 first-seen), and Islamic prayer & Quran apps added 45 (11 created, 34 first-seen).
Overview
August added 44,971 new products to the index: 19,295 dated by creation (GitHub repos) and 25,676 dated by first sighting (web-app builders). Productivity led every category with 6,414 new entries, split 3,281 created to 3,133 first-seen. Education followed at 3,493 (1,470 created, 2,023 first-seen), then gaming at 3,207 (1,274 created, 1,933 first-seen) and media-entertainment at 3,037 (1,139 created, 1,898 first-seen).
Spotlight
All ten top entries by traction score this month were dated by creation, none by first sighting. dsh-desktop (anywhere-labs/dsh-desktop) led with a traction score of 0.8493678 and 22,584 stars. openanalytics (OpenLabs-so/openanalytics) followed at 0.8391828 with 309 stars, and omacosy (paulsp94/omacosy) at 0.83851975 with 603 stars.
Staleness
Across the full index of 103,446 products, 10,405 are stale (10.1%) and 16,433 are abandoned (15.9%). That's not a monthly figure — it's the state of everything ever indexed, and together stale and abandoned entries make up over a quarter of the index.
Notable collisions
Ten clusters picked up 3 or more entries this month: the same five leaders above, plus five more. Codes Generating Managing gained 36 (5 created, 31 first-seen), AI readiness assessment platforms gained 34 (0 created, 34 first-seen), Links Web Organize gained 33 (21 created, 12 first-seen), Audio Transcription and Text-to-Speech Apps gained 32 (3 created, 29 first-seen), and General-purpose Discord community bots gained 32 (29 created, 3 first-seen).