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Hong Kong studio Simface's lightweight arcade football game crashed the global download top five in World Cup 2026 (+50.6% MoM), then faded after the final.
Leer el casoLanguage app that swaps English words in eBooks for French, Italian or Spanish while you read; Show HN on 2024-03-24 drew 363 points and 155 comments.
Leer el casoA Colombian wallet built on stablecoin dollars grew into a five-country multi-currency app with US stocks, gold and bitcoin — now expanding from Dubai.
Leer el casoGenesis AI bet dexterous manipulation is robotics' core problem and built a human-sized hand, data glove and foundation model together.
Leer el casoEtched's Sohu ASIC runs only transformer inference, claiming 20x an H100; after a near-death 2023, it books $1B in orders and a $10.3B valuation by July 2026.
Leer el casoMunich health-AI startup Dehaze raised €3.2M to build a foundation model that flags chronic-disease risk from existing patient data — and sells it to insurers.
Leer el casoSwedish micromobility operator Voi hit its first EBIT profit in 2024, then raised €40M in oversubscribed bonds to scale e-bikes across Europe's capitals.
Leer el casoOpen-source, local-first AI work journal that rebuilds a developer's day from screen activity and drafts standups and ticket updates; PH #1 on 2026-08-17
Leer el casoJapanese engineering firm ROUTE06 open-sourced its visual AI app builder Giselle and launched globally on Product Hunt — 505 upvotes, #2 of the day.
Leer el casoGSK's new R&D chief scrapped Lyell's second-generation NY-ESO-1 programs and Adaptimmune's NY-ESO and PRAME work; Lyell's 2019 deal ends 24 December 2022.
Leer el casoAltilium bet Britain would need a domestic battery supply chain — it opened the UK's first EV recycling plant and made cells from recycled cathode.
Leer el casoAI fashion brand sells same-factory, same-material goods at a fraction of luxury prices; $9.5M seed from a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, Lightspeed.
Leer el casoMamaearth parent Honasa bet a digital-native house of beauty brands could outscale legacy FMCG; its offline/D2C push caused a 2024 crash, then profit comeback.
Leer el casoCourse-catalog startup SlideRule launched by publishing one co-founder's self-taught web-dev route; the 2014-03-31 Show HN drew 368 points and 107 comments.
Leer el casoEx-Flipkart's Anil Goteti built Scapia so young Indians can book flights, pay by UPI and earn travel rewards on one card; General Catalyst just led $63M.
Leer el casoUCL–Oxford spinout turns standard CMOS chips into qubits; 2025 NQCC deployment plus $160M Series C back its 'transistor moment'.
Leer el casoEx-Xpeng co-founder He Tao's OMOWAY bets Indonesia's 120M riders will switch to an automotive-grade smart e-motorcycle; first deliveries began June 2026.
Leer el casoAumet digitized pharmacy and hospital procurement across the Middle East — 12,000+ pharmacies, $1B+ GMV — and won a $12M Series A in 2026 to push AI deeper
Leer el casoHugoApp turned Central America's cash economy into an advantage, capturing 90% last-mile share across seven countries from a $115k start to $50M revenue.
Leer el casoEx-Osmo founders bet generation-first text-to-visuals would beat Canva/Adobe; $10M seed from Accel & CRV, 2M beta users in six months.
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