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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 quality contributions on Product Hunt: this vote will count for 0 points. Yes, this might be a well intentioned user, but we take a conservative approach to protect the community. If the account has a company email or applies for verification on Product Hunt, that's a different story.

  • An account with a company email address linked to a legitimate LinkedIn account with a history of meaningful contributions on Product Hunt: this vote carries significant weight.

A couple questions for the community:

  • Are there specific accounts on Product Hunt that you suspect participate in vote selling? You can reply here or email report@producthunt.co

  • What would you want to see us do differently here?

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: https://gist.github.com/kerzhner...

Product Huntp/producthuntGabe Perez

6d ago

Introducing Randomized Leaderboard Day on Product Hunt!

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

Product Huntp/producthuntGabe Perez

6d ago

Introducing Randomized Leaderboard Day on Product Hunt!

If you re launching today, the leaderboard is about to get a lot more interesting.

We are running a Randomized Day to give products launching more of an opportunity to get seen!

The Mechanics

To level the playing field, we are cycling the homepage layout throughout the day:
The Loop: This cycle repeats every 30 minutes, all day long.

Zac Zuo

11d ago

How do you like the new face of Kitty Coin?

Hi everyone!

A few days ago I spotted @rohanrecommends sharing PH s brand new Kitty Coin leaderboard. This is definitely one of the biggest changes on PH recently.

Now it s baked right into every profile homepage:

CY

22d ago

What makes you click into a Product Hunt launch?

There are so many launches on Product Hunt every day. How do you decide which ones are worth clicking into?

What s your #1 filter or shortcut?

Product Huntp/producthuntAndrew Stewart

1mo ago

Case Study: how Product Hunt can improve AI visibility in 2026

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.

Dubp/dubfmerian

3mo ago

Tools I use when launching on Product Hunt

There are products I keep using when launching on Product Hunt -- products that help me craft beautiful assets, plan content distribution, and analyze results.

Here's my personal collection. How about you? What's your stack?

Why your 500+ member community might not help you win on Product Hunt at all?

Yesterday, I had a chat with a founder who s launching on Product Hunt next week.

He said: We ve got a community of 500+ people. Getting Product of the Day should be easy.

So I asked one question:

How many of them have an active Product Hunt accounts that are at least 4 6 weeks old?

Mike Kerzhner

6mo ago

Github Copilot CLI - Copilot'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.
VS Codep/vscodefmerian

6mo ago

What's the best IDE in 2025?

According to the 2025 @Stack Overflow Developer Survey (49,000+ participants), @VS Code and @Visual Studio remain the most used dev environments, despite the rise of subscription-based, AI-enabled code editors @Cursor and @Windsurf among others. Both maintain their top spots relying on extensions as optional, paid AI services like @Github Copilot and @Kilo Code.

Curious which IDE the Product Hunt community uses the most?

Warpp/warpAloke Desai

7mo ago

I'm Aloke, first engineer and head of the coding team at Warp. AMA! 🔥

Hey Product Hunt!

I'm Aloke, Engineer #1 at Warp and lead eng on Warp's new coding features.

We're all in on agentic coding at Warp, but we also recognize that even the best agents need some human guidance. We just launched a suite of new features to help you closely iterate with agents code review panel, file editor, file tree, slash commands, WARP.md (or use your existing agent.md file).

Weavep/weaveAdam Cohen

7mo ago

What’s Your Number? Why Your Engineers Need Better Metrics

Adam Cohen is the cofounder of @Weave , an engineering analytics company that helps teams go AI-first. Before Weave, he was head of operations and sales at education software firm Top Hat and VP of operations and revenue at @Causal , which was acquired by Lucanet in 2024.

Weavep/weaveAdam Cohen

7mo ago

What’s Your Number? Why Your Engineers Need Better Metrics

Adam Cohen is the cofounder of @Weave , an engineering analytics company that helps teams go AI-first. Before Weave, he was head of operations and sales at education software firm Top Hat and VP of operations and revenue at @Causal , which was acquired by Lucanet in 2024.

Rohan Chaubey

7mo ago

Product Hunt discontinued coming soon / teaser pages. Did they work for you?

I noticed that Product Hunt discontinued the teaser / coming soon section this week, and I m curious if it did help you build genuine traction? 

My take (from hunting PH launches):

🛠️ What are you building this weekend? Share your ideas 🧠 Get feedback 💬

Weekends are for side projects!

Share what you're going to be building or an idea you're kicking around.

What nobody tells you about traction. Reaching 1,5k users changed my day-to-day life completely

I ve been building apps for 3 years little to no success. Recently, I launched my first successful startup Yadaphone. It lets people and teams make cheap international calls from the browser. In under 3 months, it reached 1500 users, 7 enterprise customers, and brought in $15,000 in revenue.

Before that, I thought I had a clear idea of how indie hacking works: you build something, launch it, get users, and continue doing the same stuff as at the start, but on a larger scale (and get $$$). That couldn t be further from the truth. Here are the top problems I wish someone had warned me about.

Ryan Hoover

11mo ago

YC's latest Request for Startups

YC published a list of themes they want to invest in:

  1. Full-stack AI Companies

  2. More Design Founders

  3. Voice AI

  4. AI for Scientific Advancement

  5. AI Personal Assistant

  6. Healthcare AI

  7. AI Personal Tutor for Everyone

  8. Software Tools To Make Robots

  9. The Future of Education

  10. AI Residential Security

  11. Internal Agent Builder

  12. AI Research Labs

  13. AI Voice Assistants for Email

  14. AI for Personal Finance

Of course there are many projects and startups that launched on Product Hunt in each of these categories.

Testing, testing, does anyone want to use this?

Sound off in the comments or let me yell into the void.

Tetiana Zarovna

11mo ago

We won several awards in HackerNoon’s Startup of the Year awards (and here’s what we learned)

We re a Ukrainian team building an HCM platform and last week, we found ourselves at the top of HackerNoon s Startup of the Year 2024. Out of 150,000+ nominated startups worldwide, Sereda.ai placed:

  • 1st in AI Wrappers

  • 2nd in Business Development

  • 3rd in Automation

We re based in Kyiv and proud to be the only Ukrainian project that made it to the top in a global AI category.