Hi everyone, Gabe here! I lead curating Product Hunt's leaderboard.First thing I will say is that if I could feature every single product that works, I would. I love supporting makers and demoing products. I actually try to test every single thing that gets hunted every day... which is A TON.  But I view our job as to surface the most interesting, novel, useful, and innovative products - daily. Now we may not always get it right, the process isn't perfect, but we're trying to do right by the community.Hopefully, you've noticed that over the past months the quality of the leaderboard has felt really good. (Please share your thoughts!) Some of the things that I've been doing aside from testing and reviewing products is reaching out to makers to help them with their launches, provide feedback on why something may not be featurable, and help makers craft their best launch as possible. Scalable -> no.  Huge impact -> I think so. I'm working with the team on how to create a more scalable version of this but for now just know I try to make myself available to you all.Top mistakes I've seenProduct is waitlistedPeople schedule a draft.... (we have a draft function!)Maker's profile is their product/business and not an actual user accountTagline does not describe the product ie. "Best way to earn users" vs "Capture user data with a single button in your iOS app"Too much marketing jargon, not enough product description / storyNO PRODUCT SHOTS/VIDEOS -> just marketing fluff imagesOnly one image that is a low quality screenshotUsing a paid service for upvotes/hunters -> this will get you unfeatured or severely impact your launchSome other notes to consider:We've gotten stricter on keeping true to our Featuring Guidelines.We highly recommend making a draft and sharing with folks to make sure it passes the "mom test" -> do they get what you're launching?If you can quickly Google a solution that similar to what you're launching then really make sure your launch stands out. Focus on highlighting what's special about your product vs being too general.Highly recommend having a loom or some sort of visual that showcases the start process, the end result your product produces, and what's special about your product.Be honest, authentic, and have fun.With all that being said, AMA! I'll try to answer as much as I can without getting fired

A few of us at Product Hunt are putting on our most brutally honest (but helpful!) hats and roasting landing pages for the next two days. Want in? Drop your link below, and we’ll give you real, no-BS feedback on:🔥 Clarity – Does your message make sense or sound like corporate soup?🔥 Calls to Action – Do we feel compelled to click, or just… leave?🔥 Design & UX – Smooth experience or rage quit territory?🔥 Anything else – Tell us what you want feedback on.No ego, no fluff—just straight-up advice to make your page better. Drop your link below 👇

I have made a list of platforms where you can create your community and share your knowledge in a closed circle (and in some cases sell memberships).The list is according to my preferences, so the platforms I use the most are at the top.SlackDiscordWhatsApp groups (or alternatives Signal, Telegram)SkoolCirclePatreonHeroHeroDiscoMighty NetworksDo you have your own platform recommendations that I haven't mentioned but are worth paying attention to?Feel free to expand the list. 👇

If you're a SaaS, digital product, agency or freelancer what payment gateways do you use to handle local methods, taxes and subscriptions? PayPal charges me 5% per transaction and their support is unwilling to reduce it to 3% for me while I know they do lower the transaction fee for certain accounts. Thinking to switch to either of the following: Stripe Paddle (shoutout to my friend @thisiskp_) Lemonsqueezy Gumroad (@shl)Razorpay Fastspring Wise Dodo Payments What do you recommend for cross-border payments? Comment which platform works the best for you :)

Weird domain names are the unsung heroes of the internet. I used to own pollinate dot me. Basically I was drunk and thought a dating app based on people that liked to garden was a good idea

Notion, Obsidian, and Roam are great, but they’re not for everyone. Maybe you found something simpler, faster, or just less overwhelming. What’s the one productivity tool you actually stick with—the one that makes life easier instead of adding more work?

I've been using @Google Chrome for years and honestly never thought much about changing. It just always seemed like the best and easiest option. Lately though, I've been feeling like maybe I'm missing out. Chrome doesn't feel like the no-brainer pick anymore, and I'm seeing more and more interesting browsers out there.Currently, @Horse is my top pick. This is the one I'm most interested in trying out, but it also seems like a pretty different approach. I don't necessarily want my productivity to dip, but that may just be inevitable whenever switching.I also know a lot of people love @Arc, but it seems like development on it has ended? Not sure if now's still a good time to start using it. Maybe I missed the window?Of course, there's always Firefox from @Mozilla, but it sounds like some recent terms of service and privacy policy changes made some folks unhappy. I'm a bit out of the loop on that.Am I missing any other good options for a modern browser?For those that have made the switch and left Chrome behind, what did you switch to? And what helped with the transition?

I would love to be able to do this:-take a screen shot of a page (check)-paste it into figma (check)-click a button that makes "components" out of the obvious things on the page, like buttons, text, etc. -do some editing of the text, change some colors, etc. is there a plugin or a setting i'm missing that makes this easy? I haven't found anything with some cursory searching. I am a total figma noob, so it's possible this is really easy and I'm just missing something obvious.

THIS AMA WILL GO LIVE AT 9am PST March 19Hey Product Hunt!I’m Merrill Lutsky, co-founder & CEO of Graphite, the code review platform for the age of AI.I founded Graphite in 2020 with my co-founders Tomas & Greg, bubbling together during covid & running the office out of a tiny apartment in the East Village, NYC. Since then we’ve grown to a team of 30 people in our Soho office serving thousands of customers, from small startups to massive orgs like Shopify, Snowflake, Datadog, and more!So many companies right now are focused on the “inner loop” of software development: using AI to generate code. However, anyone who has been a software engineer at a larger company knows this is only half of the story - those code changes still need to pass through the “outer loop” of development: reviewing, testing, merging, and deploying. As AI code generation tools like Windsurf, Cursor, & Copilot help us write code faster than ever, we also need an AI-native "outer loop" toolchain that can keep pace. Graphite is building this new outer loop, using AI to help cut down on review cycles and ship higher quality code, faster.Ask me anything about what it’s like to found and grow a devtools company during a global pandemic, how AI is changing software engineering, or even my thoughts on techno, techwear, or training for marathons!

I have both @Substack and @beehiiv newsletters. Both have pros and cons. But honestly, I don't know what one to commit to. Substack only makes money when I make money but is feature lite. Beehiiv is kind expensive for me (5,000+ subs) and feels like it could even be feature obtuse. Do I need all those features? Do i need any of them? I end up flip flopping every year. So it leads me to this question.Do you use Substack or Beehiiv? And why?

Just launched IndieMerger (co-founder matching platform) on Product Hunt with minimal preparation and wanted to share the real results.The numbers:3rd place for the day1305 visitors to the site210 sign-ups (16% conversion)7 purchases$543 total revenue (0.5% visitor-to-customer conversion)What I actually did:Spent just ONE day preparing my submissionLaunched it myself (no fancy hunter)Used my existing landing page (no special PH offer)Responded to comments throughout the dayReality check:Product Hunt brought decent traffic but not the massive sales many founders expect. The day after launch, traffic dropped significantly.Most visitors were curious browsers, not people actively looking for a co-founder matching platform. Many signed up for free accounts but few converted to paying customers.Was it worth it?For the minimal effort I put in, yes. But it's definitely not a silver bullet for SaaS growth.If you're planning a PH launch, my advice is:Keep expectations realisticDon't overinvest in preparationFocus on your core audience elsewhereSee it as just one channel in your marketing mixFor context: IndieMerger helps founders find compatible co-founders using AI matching. We focus on complementary skills and values alignment.Happy to answer specific questions about the launch experience!

I’ve been exploring MCP, an open standard from @Anthropic that aims to simplify AI integrations. In theory, this should make it easier to connect AI with databases, task managers, or even development tools. But I’m curious to know how well it actually works in practice.If you’ve tried MCP with PostgreSQL, Todoist, or other services, I’d love to hear:🔹 What was your experience setting it up?🔹 What limitations have you come across?I’ll be sharing a deeper dive soon, but if you’ve worked with MCP, drop a comment — I’d love to hear real-world experiences! 👇You can check the full description here https://modelcontextprotocol.io/introduction if you want to dive deep into the new protocol

Ever since we launched Product Forums, it's been incredible to see how the community has taken to it and started a ton of insightful conversations. So, we wanted to take a moment and highlight some of the most active community forum members from this week who are making the forums awesome!@busmark_w_nika - Nika was the top contributing member in the forums this week! 👑 They had a very popular thread asking about the impact of AI comments on social media - Are AI comments a (good) future for social media?@merrill_lutsky - The CEO of @Graphite, Merrill, held a super insightful AMA this week touching on code reviews, dev tools, and AI - You're doing code reviews wrong - AMA w/ CEO of Graphite@mattisssa - Artem is the maker of @Shorty and kicked off a conversation on @Lovable's product forum about the importance of promotion - Lovable but for Promotion?@onbing - Yan is the founder of UIPaaS and, along with joining many different threads, was brave enough to offer up his upcoming product for roasting - 🚨 Landing Page Roast: 48 Hours Only 🚨@movitalis_david_manda - David is the CEO of @Movitalis and kicked off an interesting health & fitness related thread about tracking your VO2 more efficiently - Why you should be tracking your VO2 max - and how to do it betterWant to try and make it into the top next week? Leave useful comments and start interesting threads! We'd love to hear from you!

Hey folks! 
Some friends of mine are launching a self-care wellness app built as a Telegram mini app. They're based in Eastern Europe, where Telegram is hugely popular and widely used for all sorts of things. They asked for my help in marketing it globally—but I'm hesitant. Living in the US, I mostly see Telegram associated with sketchy stuff: black market services, shady job offers, etc. It has a pretty bad rep here. So I'm wondering—
Is it just me? How is Telegram perceived in your country?
And if someone you trust recommended a really good app, would the fact that it's on Telegram be a dealbreaker for you? Would love to hear your thoughts before I commit to helping them. 🙏

We made a move to @Linear at Product Hunt within the past 6 months. Curious if other startups using @Linear have adopted it company wide. Or is it primarily used by the EPD team and the rest of the company uses different PM tools? And if so, how is it working?We were previously on @Asana . I like to say I am tool-agnostic, and can adapt our company processes to whatever tool the team will use, but with many project management tools, I had my love/hate relationship with Asana. @Notion works well as our homebase for company and project documentation, brainstorming, etc. and can even work for simple task/project management (I love their inline databases). But if you're looking for more robust tools, I haven't seen Notion up to the task. I have also tried@Trello , @Todoist , @Basecamp , @ClickUp etc at other companies.I started testing @Flat for my own personal task / project management and like it (to me, it's kind of like really clean Notion-like Project management tool) but the challenge is if no one else is using it, there's no transparency/collaboration benefits. Our team already uses Linear to submit issues to the EPD team so am wondering if other companies have adopted Linear company wide and if so, how it's going.

Today I read this message:Instagram has just added the ability to write comments with AI.A similar option LinkedIn has (it offers pre-written recommended comments like "Congratulations")In my opinion, social media is about being Social. But I also understand the development of technology, the attention economy and the mass of content produced.We are being pushed to speed up everything with artificial intelligence. That's why we see more tools on the market that will write comments for us.How do you perceive it? Does using AI comments make sense?I personally see it this way: I use AI for grammar correctionThis is perhaps more worthwhile for big creators to interact with their fans faster and on a large scale at minimal costI would rather see some cooperation between a human and AI (for example, being aware of what the AI ​​wrote and I will edit it according to my own needs)Maybe AI interaction will bore us so much in the online space that we will start communicating with each other offline (face-to-face).Feel free to share your thoughts. 👇

My environment consists of many solo founders.However, when I see someone is already starting to hire an employee, the question crosses my mind: What profit has that person achieved when they can afford to pay another extra person?In some cases, I have seen a call for volunteering, but now I have a purely interesting employment relationship.Is it determined by the turnover or profit multiple from a given project?How did you determine the right time for hiring the first employee?

Hi all! Movitalis is launching soon and I want to talk about one of the most important but under appreciated fitness indicators: VO2 max.While it did become more popular lately it is still not widely known that VO2 max is an amazing indicator of overall health and predictor of longevity. In this study of over 1 million participants, a low VO2 max was linked with a 3-5x increase in overall mortality. This is an amazing finding as VO2 max is something we can increase through regular exercise, especially if done correctly.Movitalis is a fitness app that helps you train optimally for increasing your VO2 max and is tailored towards longevity, not performance! I feel like regular people for whom training is not their only focus should get the attention they deserve.I now want to hear your thoughts: Are you familiar with what VO2 max is? Are you tracking it?Would you consider Movitalis to help you on your fitness journey?Thanks!

Happy Friday!Looking back on your week, what was something you're proud of?All wins count -- big or smallFor example:This week was launch week at @Bucket. We announced a series of features making feature flagging a fast, joyful experience for SaaS developers — CLI, Toolbar, Event log, GitHub integration, new docs. We launched on Product Hunt and are currently in the race to be in the Top 5 Developer Tools of the Week!

Hello, world!We launched Bucket DX on Product Hunt last Tuesday. We ranked #7 Product of the Day and are currently #3 Developer Tool of the Week.Here's a recap of how it went, hour by hour.For context:This launch was Bucket's fourth launch on Product HuntIt was part of Bucket's first-ever launch weekWe were in a Battle Royale with @Novu and @Tinybird# 12:01:AM:PST — going liveStep 1: getting featured. Done!For the first 4 hours of the day, @Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early."# 02:16:AM:PST — new milestone: 100 upvotesProduct Hunt is a great place for developer tools to launch.It helps raise awareness, get feedback, and collect testimonials — the type of materials you can reuse later on for your marketing purposes.Take this comment from @dima_grossman, CTO and Co-founder of @Novu, for example.The DX is just out of this world. If you're not using Bucket in your project, you are missing out. — Dima Grossman, CTO of Novu# 04:01:AM:PST — we're currently #7!We're currently #7 Product of the Day, with 124 upvotes and 25 comments.# 05:42:AM:PST — new milestone: 148 upvotesWe just surpassed Releases that we launched in February 2024. We're still #7 Product of the Day.# 10:07:AM:PST — new milestone: 200 upvotesWe're currently #7 Product of the Day and just reached 200 upvotes. 31 more upvotes to go and surpass Flags that we launched in November 2024.# 08:56:PM:PST — new milestone: 231 upvotesWe just surpassed Flags that we launched in November 2024. We're still #7 Product of the Day.@amanintech, CTO and Co-founder of @Lamatic.ai, left this comment:Feature flagging is challenging and Bucket makes it incredibly developer-friendly. — Aman Sharma, CTO of Lamatic.⁠ai# 11:59:PM:PST — wrapping upThat's a wrap!Results:242 points42 comments#7 Product of the Day — featured in Product Hunt's newsletters 😻S/O to the @Novu and @Tinybird teams who ranked in the Top 10, respectively #4 and #10 👏👏# Final thoughtsLaunching keeps reminding the market that your company exists and you’re making progress. — Karri Saarinen, CEO of Linear in Linear MethodThis launch was Bucket's fourth launch on Product Hunt and is part of Bucket's first-ever launch week — a week of announcing new features.Launching on Product Hunt as a developer tool definitely works. It pays off in the long term. We keep launching.Oh and we're currently #3 Developer Tool of the Week! Join the launch here.

We put the Flow experience you love into an iOS keyboard — and just like the desktop app, you can use it across all your mobile apps.Here's how to use this on mobile (45 second YouTube video)If you're a Pro or Team user, you can now download Flow’s iOS keyboard: https://wisprflow.ai/ios-beta😍 What can I use it for? Our early users love using Flow, especially on a walk, in transit, or while multitasking. Their favorite use cases:EmailsSlackTextingQuick notesWe'd love your feedback! This is a beta version, so there might be hiccups. Send over any feedback / issues to support@wisprflow.ai or drop a note in our Slack community! We're shipping improvements every day.

Hey everyone, I’ve been playing around with different ways to keep my ideas, research, and drafts in check, but it still feels like I’m drowning in research. :PI’ve tried traditional note-taking apps, but they’re not flexible. And mind maps? They start out fine but turn into a mess as it gets complex with more data.Recently, I’ve been playing with some AI tools that actually help me organize my thoughts, dig up connections I didn’t see, and even polish up drafts based on stuff I upload from different sources. It’s like having a second brain that’s actually thinking alongside me.A few tools I have found on Product Hunt to serve for this use case: Findr, Scrintal and Notebooks.So, I’m curious: how are you all using AI to make your content workflow smooth? Share in the comments what is working for you! :)

I have been playing around with some GPT-4 plugins recently (like the travel ones that book flights for you), and it got me thinking: Could this plugin ecosystem eventually replace the traditional app store model (like on iOS or Google Play)?Right now, we switch between dozens of apps for random tasks (booking a hotel, checking the weather, ordering groceries), but if ChatGPT can handle all that directly, why would we need separate apps for each thing? It almost feels like a central “AI OS.”Is that too futuristic of a prediction, or do you think it might be coming sooner than we think?How do you see this impacting smaller developers—does it open up new opportunities or create more competition under one AI umbrella?Would love to hear if anyone else has tried these plugins and what you think about the future of standalone apps.

LIVE March 13th at 12:30pm PTHey everyone, CEO of Wispr here.We did two product launches over the last five months, both went viral on X, LinkedIn, and ProductHunt, and helped us build a large audience in a short period of time.We had a lot of builders and founders reach out about advice as they were thinking about launching their own products and strategies that work across channels. I spend a lot of time thinking about building growth loops in our product, driving organic conversations, and building a product love to use and talk about - which sets a strong foundation for launch.Today, AMA about our launch, product thinking, how to kill it on X, LinkedIn, Product Hunt, or really anything about the product. Everything's on the table so ask away!

Hello Everyone! 👋We're researching how to improve reading comprehension features in language-learning apps based on our own struggles with the disconnected texts often found in traditional platforms. Our vision is to create reading exercises that genuinely connect with learners' real interests, proficiency levels, and learning goals. I won't dive into all the details right now, but we'd love to spark a conversation around this question:What types of reading exercises would make language learning more engaging and effective for you?Looking forward to your insights—don't hesitate to share your experiences or reach out directly! @willemvdeijkel @didiervanh @lucasilverentand