pigtailExample reports
Reports generated by Pigtail that passed its automated publication checks: personal data is minimized, sensitive claims are removed or sent to review, and excerpts are kept short. Independent analyses based on public sources; Pigtail is not affiliated with the companies and projects shown.
Open-source projects
GitHub repositories, with their exact daily star history next to launches, posts and releases.
Hatchet
An open-source task queue that launched repeatedly on Hacker News (Show HN, Launch HN, v1) — a repeated-launch case study.
Plausible Analytics
Open-source, privacy-first web analytics that grew through opinionated blog posts reaching Hacker News, with a bootstrapped paid cloud.
PocketBase
A one-developer open-source backend whose stars grew in bursts, mostly from posts by other people.
Agent-Reach
A free CLI that lets AI agents read social platforms; about 95,000 stars in under eight months, in bursts that lined up with GitHub Trending runs.
Products
Product websites. No star history: the story comes from launches, pricing, metrics and interviews.
Superhuman
A paid email app that grew through a waitlist, concierge onboarding and a product-market-fit survey.
Tally
A bootstrapped form builder that grew from founder cold outreach to a free-product loop, then search and AI discovery.