Soccer Superstar's World Cup bet: top-5 global downloads in July 2026, then fade
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.
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2,000 CAS PUBLIÉS · MIS À JOUR RÉGULIÈREMENTGlossarie bets embedded translations in eBooks can teach languages; 363 HN points
Language 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.
Lire le casLittio bet Colombians would save in stablecoin dollars: 500K users, $1.3B moved
A Colombian wallet built on stablecoin dollars grew into a five-country multi-currency app with US stocks, gold and bitcoin — now expanding from Dubai.
Lire le casGenesis AI bets hands-first robotics: $105M seed, GENE-26.5 full-stack model
Genesis AI bet dexterous manipulation is robotics' core problem and built a human-sized hand, data glove and foundation model together.
Lire le casEtched bets everything on a transformer-only chip; $1B orders before first racks ship
Etched'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.
Lire le casDehaze bets foundation models can spot chronic disease early; €3.2M seed
Munich 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.
Lire le casVoi turns a first profit, then funds e-bike expansion with €40M in bonds
Swedish micromobility operator Voi hit its first EBIT profit in 2024, then raised €40M in oversubscribed bonds to scale e-bikes across Europe's capitals.
Lire le casMeridian's work-journal bet: PH #1 for a privacy-first AI dev journal
Open-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
Lire le casGiselle: ROUTE06's OSS AI-builder bet — #2 on Product Hunt launch day
Japanese engineering firm ROUTE06 open-sourced its visual AI app builder Giselle and launched globally on Product Hunt — 505 upvotes, #2 of the day.
Lire le casGSK terminated its $250M-upfront Lyell cell-therapy alliance after weak lete-cel data
GSK'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.
Lire le casAltilium opens the UK's first EV battery recycling plant
Altilium bet Britain would need a domestic battery supply chain — it opened the UK's first EV recycling plant and made cells from recycled cathode.
Lire le casAtorie bets AI lets luxury factories sell direct, undercutting brand markup
AI fashion brand sells same-factory, same-material goods at a fraction of luxury prices; $9.5M seed from a16z Speedrun, Night Capital, Lightspeed.
Lire le casHonasa's D2C-brand bet: ₹1,701 Cr IPO, a loss-driven crash, then +176% profit
Mamaearth 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.
Lire le casSlideRule bet sequenced learning paths could teach web dev from scratch
Course-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.
Lire le casScapia bets travel-first cards beat lounge perks: $63M from General Catalyst
Ex-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.
Lire le casQuantum Motion's silicon-chip bet: $160M Series C, quantum in a box not a building
UCL–Oxford spinout turns standard CMOS chips into qubits; 2025 NQCC deployment plus $160M Series C back its 'transistor moment'.
Lire le casOMOWAY bets Xpeng-grade tech on Indonesia's e-motorcycles: Series A, first deliveries
Ex-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.
Lire le casAumet bets AI procurement can fix MENA pharma supply: $12M Series A after $1B GMV
Aumet 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
Lire le casHugoApp built a local super app to beat Uber across Central America
HugoApp turned Central America's cash economy into an advantage, capturing 90% last-mile share across seven countries from a $115k start to $50M revenue.
Lire le casNapkin AI: text-to-visuals bet goes from Jike virality to 5M users
Ex-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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