Side

Notable signal

A little AI chat panel that lives beside your Mac's Dock

Launched 8h ago

Signal

Velocity

What this means

3.7×Growing 3.7× faster than the typical comparable launch.

Compared to 3 comparable launches at the same age.

13Founder Conviction Index: 13 — low signal.

Few of the conviction sub-signals (reputation, velocity, buyer-intent, tagline clarity) are firing yet.

Prediction

Top-5 finish probability

28%

today

Projected end-of-day votes

71range 53–96

Trajectory

stable

Not enough snapshots yet to detect trajectory.

Speed vs peers

3.7×

3 comparable launches

About

Side is a tiny AI chat panel that sits right beside your Mac's Dock: one glance away, never in the way. • Fits the gap next to your Dock, floats above other windows, works across Spaces and full-screen apps • Switch providers, models and reasoning levels in one conversation • Bring your own account: sign in with ChatGPT or use an API key • Compact composer that expands to full height when needed • ⌘⇧Space to show or hide Free and open source (MIT).

Attention & discussion velocity

Performance

Velocity0

Vote pace vs average

Momentum0

Sustained over 6h

Virality0

Spread × engagement

Engagement3

Discussion per unit of attention

Editorial read

Scored deterministically. Only candidates that fire a story trigger are sent to a model, so this one has no written angle.

ThinLittle evidence and no strong angle. Nothing to build on yet.

85/8

Timeliness5%100

carried 7%

Trend20%30

carried 27%

Novelty15%15

carried 20%

Business15%1

carried 20%

Story20%0

carried 27%

Not measured · 3 of 8

Revenue10%—

Founder10%—

Cross-platform5%—

Gaps in our data, not findings about the product. Their weight is redistributed across the 5 we did measure.

measuredmeasured, zeronot measured

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Signal sources

2 of 6 active

Launch tracking2 readings since we picked it up
AI analysisnot yet enriched
Comment intelligencethread not yet analysed
Outside discussionnot checked — domain is a storefront or shared
Revenue signalsno match on this domain
Editorial scoring13% evidence coverage

A source that found nothing is a measurement. A source that has not run is a gap. Neither means the launch lacks the thing.