Product Hunt is the leading platform for launching and discovering new products, where makers debut startups, apps and tools every day to an audience of early adopters.
Since 2013, Product Hunt has been the startup world’s front page. Each day a fresh leaderboard of launches competes for upvotes, comments and the Product of the Day badge, and a strong launch can deliver a young product its first thousand users, press coverage and investor attention. Founders prepare launches with scheduled posts, teaser pages and maker comments, while hunters and enthusiasts browse to find the newest software before anyone else. The community layer, with profiles, collections, discussion forums and a weekly newsletter, keeps discovery going long after launch day, and many now-famous companies first found their audience here.
The site began in 2013 as a simple email list started by Ryan Hoover and quickly became a daily ritual for the tech community. A successful launch is treated as a milestone in its own right: products display their launch badges on their own websites, and the year’s top products are recognized in Product Hunt’s annual Golden Kitty Awards. Feedback in launch comments frequently shapes what makers build next, which keeps the conversation going well beyond launch day.
Product Hunt is free to use. Creating an account, browsing products, launching a product and collecting upvotes costs nothing, with optional paid promotion available for launches that want extra visibility.
Product Hunt is essential for founders and indie makers launching software, and for early adopters, investors and product people who want to see what is new before it goes mainstream.