24 August 2026

The briefing as it was published on this date. Every entry was seen moving by at least two unrelated collectors that day. Where a follow-up exists, it shows what has happened since.

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With follow-up: 0

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Briefing · 24 August 2026

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luma-touch.com

Website · seen by Google Play, Crunchbase, Search volume, App Store, Pricing page, Tech stack, Tranco, Wikipedia, YouTube

LumaFusion is a professional multi-track video and audio editor for iPad, iPhone and Android, made by Luma Touch. It is sold as a paid app with optional add-ons rather than a subscription, and is aimed at mobile journalists, filmmakers and social video producers who edit on a tablet instead of a desktop.

Why it is here

US paid rank 68 to 46, and charting in four countries where it charted in three. Both app stores carry it and both moved the same way. A paid video editor climbing the paid chart in four storefronts at once is demand, not a promotion in one market.

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peakfinder.com

Website · seen by Google Play, Search volume, App Store, Tech stack, Tranco

PeakFinder names the mountains around you: point a phone at a skyline and it draws and labels the peaks from elevation data, entirely offline, anywhere in the world. It is a paid app with no subscription, used by hikers, climbers and alpine walkers to identify summits without a signal.

Why it is here

Best chart position 5 to 3, and 5 to 3 in Germany specifically, holding four countries. Small absolute moves, but inside a top five that is hard to reach at all — and it is a paid app, so every place gained was bought by someone.

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How to read this

Method

Every number here is a rate of change, never a total. Size is not news. The largest repository on GitHub is not rising, it arrived years ago. What this looks for is movement, and specifically movement that more than one unrelated source noticed on the same day.

That second condition is the whole method. Stars can be bought, backlinks can be built, app installs can be farmed. This project has already killed 2,601 domains for sitting inside link networks, one of which ran to 2,046 sites and covered 98% of everything it tracked on .it. All of them were manufacturing the exact signal one of these sources measures. Faking two unrelated signals at once is far harder work, so a repository seen moving by GitHub and HackerNews, or an app seen by the App Store and Google Play, counts for more than a bigger number in one place.

Whether two sources are genuinely independent is measured rather than assumed. Majestic ranks domains by backlinks and Tranco ranks them by traffic, and the two were treated as one voice for weeks. Comparing their daily movement across 83,000 domains showed no relationship at all, so they now count as two. Any pair that turns out to share data underneath gets folded back into one.

Entries are written to be read rather than scanned. When the evidence is thin, or the story behind it does not hold up, the entry is left out rather than published with a caveat.