Second Brain — Traction Report

Overview

People don't just star it.
They deploy it.

Second Brain is a self-hosted memory layer that works across Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, and any MCP client. Store something once, recall it everywhere. It runs entirely in the user's own Cloudflare account — free tier, no telemetry, no vendor in the middle.

MIT License Cloudflare Workers #3 Product Hunt MCP Native

The Story

01

Every AI session starts from zero

Context lives in silos. What you tell Claude, ChatGPT never knows. Developers re-explain their projects to every tool, every session. Second Brain makes memory portable and user-owned.

02

Built in public, deployed in private

Launched May 31, 2026 — #3 Product of the Day on Product Hunt with no budget and no audience. In the last 14 days alone: 450+ unique cloners and a ~20% visitor-to-clone rate. Because it's self-hosted by design, there is no usage telemetry — adoption shows up as deployments, not dashboards.

03

Contributors arrive unsolicited

Security, data-integrity, and sync features have all been shipped by external contributors — people who found the project, deployed it, and improved it without being asked. Community pull requests have been merged across the core repo and its Obsidian plugin. For an open source project, that is the signal.

Weighted Engagement Score

0 CURRENT

Forksdeploy signal

5×

Unique Clonersactive users

3×

Starssocial proof

1×

90d target 13,000

Stars measure discovery. Forks and clones measure commitment. WES weights accordingly: forks 5×, unique cloners 3×, stars 1×.

Why the Numbers Matter

Core Metrics (14-day)

Ecosystem

Growth Forecast