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Vote selling on Product Hunt
Every day, after launching, makers are contacted on LinkedIn and X by people offering to sell votes. As the Product Hunt team, we are very much aware of this and really hate it. We have systems in place to neutralize this type of gaming. Every vote counts for a different number of points on Product Hunt. A couple examples: An account with a recently created gmail address and no history of...
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Would you read a topic digest newsletter?
Hello Product Hunt! We are thinking of spinning up topic specific, weekly digest newsletters that break up the firehose of goodness that is the Product Hunt leaderboard. What topics would you subscribe to? Who would you like to see sponsor these newsletters? Here is an early prototype of what an AI Agent Digest newsletter might look like:...
Product Hunt is known for its lively and friendly community. To accentuate different ways you can be active in the community, we built a leaderboard for community members. Ranking highly will give you exposure as well as lend credibility to your content. We also want to showcase the various ways members of the community can participate and build stories around those participants.
Kitty Points LeaderboardFind interesting community members and see how you stack up
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We use and absolutely love Gauge at Product Hunt. Gauge has helped us significantly boost the visibility of Product Hunt product pages, alternatives, and categories in LLMs. Now makers get way more LLM visibility. Check out this study for a quick look at how we’ve used Gauge. When we evaluated competing tools, they were 10x more expensive. And they did not have the level of craft and iteration...
GaugeYour marketing agent for organic, paid, and AI search
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Would love to hear thoughts from makers and the community on this post!
Case Study: how Product Hunt can improve AI visibility in 2026
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Curious, what do you like about @Hunted Space over the native Product Hunt Launch Day dashboards? Anything we can build to make the hunter/maker launch day smoother?
Tools I use when launching on Product Hunt
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In-Depth Reviews capture what real makers and users think about the tools they rely on. Each review highlights the best and worst features, answers product-specific questions, and includes what the reviewer built using the product.
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What AI code assistant should I invest my time in? @Cursor? @Claude Code? @opencode? Something else? I can download and try all of them. There are around 4,931 AI code editors out there, and I’ve tried about 27% of them. But trying a product for a day or two doesn’t tell the full story. Living with it for months or years does. I started using Cursor almost 2 years now. Then I switched to...
In-Depth ReviewsReviews that ask better questions
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Hi everyone, Product Hunt CTO here. Launches are ranked by points, but not every upvote is worth the same number of points. A few tips: Encourage your community members to apply for verification. Verified users’ votes tend to carry more weight. Contribute meaningfully to the community. Thoughtful comments and engaging discussions make your votes count for more. Low-effort comments and AI slop...
Why your 500+ member community might not help you win on Product Hunt at all?
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Copilot CLI is now in public preview. Give the copilot team feedback on how it compares to Claude Code and Codex CLIs.
Github Copilot CLICopilot's response to Claude Code and Codex CLI
Copilot CLI is GitHub’s terminal-based coding agent. It accepts instructions, edits files, runs commands, and connects to MCP servers. Defaults to Claude Sonnet 4 but can switch to other models. Usage is billed via Copilot plans.
Github Copilot CLICopilot's response to Claude Code and Codex CLI
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@Claude Code terminal in @Cursor. Most of my prompts are to Claude Code. Cursor is really nice for tab complete. Claude Code has had reliability issues recently. It's really nice to be able to quickly switch to prompting Cursor when Claude Code is down. Another person on our team uses @opencode instead of Claude Code, and I hear great things. I also hear that @Github Copilot has gotten quite a...
What's the best IDE in 2025?
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Thanks for the AMA, @alokedesai! I am incredibly excited about Warp. A couple questions: how do you think about the lethal trifecta? how do you think about when to use a SOTA model API vs when to host + train your own models?
I'm Aloke, first engineer and head of the coding team at Warp. AMA! 🔥
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Love this thread. And I have really enjoyed using @Weave at Product Hunt. This is probably a very common thought, but I'll raise it anyways. From the perspective of an engineer: sales has clear outcomes. Was the contract signed? How big was the contract? Did the customer renew next year. Engineering is much more nuanced. Defining a successful PR is tricky. Is code churn bad? Maybe... It could...
What’s Your Number? Why Your Engineers Need Better Metrics
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We absolutely love @Hex at Product Hunt. We moved off Periscope a couple years ago and were immediately blown away by Hex. But, until recently, I felt a big difference between modern AI IDEs like @Cursor and Hex. I have come to rely heavily on Cursor's AI and agent features. It's amazing to see Hex close this gap. My view of the future of technical work is it will be a combination of asking...
Hex Notebook AgentPowerful agentic notebook for data analytics
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Chiming in. Thanks for the post @rohanrecommends. @borja_diazroig, no plans to revamp Coming Soon. This was a very old surface area that was quite buggy. And, per @kate_ramakaieva, comment: rallying an audience twice is rough. We are very much thinking of alternatives to Coming Soon!
Product Hunt discontinued coming soon / teaser pages. Did they work for you?
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"From day 1, implement email quality checks" Any lessons on how to do this effectively? Totally get it if you don't want to give away company secrets thought!
What nobody tells you about traction. Reaching 1,5k users changed my day-to-day life completely
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cc @kwindla, the expert in voice ai.
YC's latest Request for Startups
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@nathansobo Zed is so slick! New window with a separate lllm chatbox is such a killer feature. As a very serious Rust shop, how do you feel about the Rust ecosystem/libraries/frameworks? Do you find yourselves on the bleeding edge of what Rust frameworks support? Do you spend a bunch of time building and maintaining open source libraries?
Zed Agentic EditingThe IDE scratch-built in Rust, now with 100% more agents
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@philip_isik We use and love TipTap at Product Hunt. Thank you for building such an amazing editor. This comment is powered by TipTap!
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