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Launching soon on Product Hunt?

Random idea: Run a pre-launch ad campaign to start building momentum early and A/B test your tagline.

launching a dev tool on Product Hunt this month?

happy to help and support

Fun fact: I have more followers on Product Hunt than Hiten.

Personal update: happy to share that I'm starting a new contract position as Professional Product Hunter at @kilocode.ai

and it's launching today on producthunt.com

awesome-product-hunt/product-hunt-launch-guide.md at main · fmerian/awesome-product-hunt Awesome developer tools launched on Product Hunt. Contribute to fmerian/awesome-product-hunt development by creating an account on GitHub.

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IMHO The question isn't if you should launch on Product Hunt. It's how.

TL,DR: Keep it simple.

Case Study: how Product Hunt can improve AI visibility in 2026 : Product Hunt Discussion Forums | Product Hunt Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results. What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations. AI assistants such as ChatGPT and Gemini rely on reviews, alternative lists, and structured product information gathered across the web. Product Hunt is strong across all three. In theory, this should make Product Hunt a natural source for AI-driven product recommendations and comparisons. In practice, it was not happening. We set out to understand why LLMs were not citing Product Hunt and whether we could change that. The most recent Orbit Awards provided a clean test case, and a new tool called @Gauge made the impact measurable. Gauge tracks LLM visibility across major AI models using a l

How Product Hunt improves AI visibility

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Fun fact: @supabase.com, among the Top 0.1% most loved and most followed products on Product Hunt, has launched on the platform 16 times since 2020.

16 launches.

9 times in the Top 5.

56.3% success rate.

Keep launching.

GitHub - fmerian/awesome-product-hunt: Awesome developer tools launched on Product Hunt. Awesome developer tools launched on Product Hunt. Contribute to fmerian/awesome-product-hunt development by creating an account on GitHub.

If you're planning a launch on Product Hunt and are looking for best practices and inspiration, there's a repo for that:

git.new/meow

Product Hunt is a place where I enjoy hanging out.

If you're building a developer tool and are planning a launch, reach out.

Always happy to help and support.

Personal milestone: 45,000 followers on Product Hunt

Launching on Product Hunt is the day when your karma comes full circle.

Keep it simple.

Product Hunt is about consistency. Launch, and keep launching.

It pays off in the long term.

The best day to launch on Product Hunt : Product Hunt Discussion Forums | Product Hunt This is a recurring topic here and I recently had many related discussions. So, I wanted to share with you three different stories, three different perspectives and approaches for inspiration. TL,DR: IMHO There's no perfect day to launch. Just launch it. Launching on a Monday for maximum exposure @TwelveLabs attended AWS re:Invent last week with a series of announcements. They launched on Product Hunt on a Monday, the first day of the conference for maximum exposure. Launching on a weekend for less competition @Ultracite, an open-source product for developers, built by a solo maker, launched on a weekend, less competitive than a week day according to @Product Hunt. Launching after gaining traction on X @Dimension first launched on X, got some traction (3.5M+ impressions), and launched on Product Hunt the next day, riding those tailwinds. Final thoughts Different launches, different timings. So, when is the best day to launch? On a week day, on a weekend? On a Monday or a Tuesday? In th

> What's the optimal day to launch on Product Hunt? On a weekday or a weekend?

TL,DR: There's no perfect day to launch. Just launch.

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same product, new feature each launch

Launch, and keep launching.

Product Hunt pays off in the long term.

Launching multiple times on Product Hunt creates a tailwind.

Take @kilocode.ai for example.

First launched a year ago:
- 333 points
- ranked #⁠5 Product of the Day (POTD)

Launched again 6 mo later:
- 670 pts
- ranked #⁠1 POTD

Launched for the 3rd time last week:
- 815 pts
- ranked #⁠1 POTD

launching a dev tool on Product Hunt this month?

happy to help and support

Best of the week of January 26, 2026 | Product Hunt Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.

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The beauty of Product Hunt.

Dev-first, OSS products and solo makers at the top of last week’s leaderboard.

Launching soon on Product Hunt?

Random idea: Run a pre-launch ad campaign to start building momentum early and A/B test your tagline -- the most important part of a launch?

The best products for developers keep launching on Product Hunt.

By # of launches:

- ElevenLabs: 28
- Vercel: 25
- Anthropic: 22
- Supabase: 16
- Raycast: 16
- Cursor: 7
- Warp: 4

Spotted: Auth0's display ad campaign on producthunt.⁠com

Kilo Code: OSS AI coding assistant for planning, building & fixing code | Product Hunt Open Source AI coding assistant for planning, building, and fixing code. We're a superset of Roo, Cline, and our own features. Follow us: kilocode.ai/social

Join the launch:

producthunt.com/products/kilocode

Last year, they crushed it: Two launches, ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day.

No pressure.

Product Hunt is about consistency.

S/O to the @kilocode.ai team for this 3rd launch.

Best of the week of January 19, 2026 | Product Hunt Product Hunt is a curation of the best new products, every day. Discover the latest mobile apps, websites, and technology products that everyone's talking about.

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Fun fact: Last week on Product Hunt, 9 out of the Top 10 Products of the Week had a Hunter (100% of the Top 5).

- Garry Tan (YC-backed companies): 3
- Flo Merian: 3
- Chris Messina: 1
- Ben Lang: 1
- Steven Tey: 1

Product Hunt isn’t just a launch platform.

It’s also a collective of newsletters with 1M+ subscribers:

- The Leaderboard, Product Hunt’s daily digest
- The Roundup, Product Hunt’s weekly digest
- The Frontier, a weekly, AI-focused newsletter

Learn more:

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