2024 Wrapped
A year of launch weeks in review
As we’re wrapping up this year, below are some numbers from 2024.
Running a launch week has a “cost” for one company — if many experimented with it, few companies managed to do it consistently.
Among the 94 different companies, only 7 companies (7.4%) have run 3 launch weeks or more this year: Highlight, Daytona, Memfault, Mux, Outerbase, Supabase, Wasp.
As we’re wrapping up this year, we have plans for 2025:
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the year of launch weeks
Last year, we tracked 47 launch weeks run by 38 different companies. In 2024, we tracked 126 launch weeks run by 94 different companies. In comparison, that’s 79 more launch weeks (+168.1%) and 56 more companies (+147.4%).# of dev-first companies running launch weeks since 2021
products of the week
When your team runs a launch week, you are Product Of The Week by default. If you exclude the Mega Launch Week that featured 22 developer tools (W49), there were exactly 2 launches per week on average.# of launch weeks by week in 2024
a week of announcements
We define a launch week as a week of announcing new features. This year, the shortest launch week lasted 3 days. The longest? 6 days. It was Unkey’s Launch Week.Unkey's Launch Week
Unkey Launch Week
2024 / 06 / 24-29 // Go to launch page
wrapping up
That’s all, folks! You can find the data source here:Who launched in 2024
How Supabase, Langfuse, WorkOS, and 91 more dev tools launched
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