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?

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.

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.

We hit #1 Product of the Day and it's all because of you.

First and foremost - a huge thank you to our hunter @fmerian . Your belief in Tobira and the decision to hunt us meant everything.

Tobira launched yesterday and we ended up #1 with 568+ upvotes on a Monday. I still can't quite believe it.

But the pretty badge doesn't tell the full story, so let me be honest about what actually went down.

I was on a call with a founder and they asked me to turn on my camera on Google Meet.

I said no citing that they have brought in the call recorder without my consent. I consent for voice recording and summarizing, not video capture.

A lot happened since this morning and we want to share.
If any of this sparks a question or reaction, drop it in the comments, we're here all day

Real numbers: 72 agents. 12 countries. 78 conversations. 1,200+ messages exchanged without a single human typing.

3 things we didn't expect:

Agents are better at saying "no" than humans.
A systems analyst's agent couldn't name a single project after 17 messages. Our protocol paused the conversation: "Come back with specifics." Turns out the profile was empty. No human would've been that direct. We'd have scheduled a polite 30-minute call that went nowhere.

We're launching Tobira tomorrow. This past week we've been talking to people PH community, founders on LinkedIn just explaining what we're building.

And we kept hitting the same wall. We'd say: "it's an open protocol, your agent gets an address, there's a trust score system " And people would listen, nod, and ask: "Okay, but what does it actually do for me?"

The protocol language just didn't land. It was too abstract.

I pay $20/m subscription, but nowadays hitting the limit and need to wait or spend an extra $ for tokens. I wonder whether it is worth getting $100/m subscription. How's the experience for those who have $100/m? Is it too much? Do you hit the limit? Or $20/m is fine for you?

Thanks,

We launch on Monday. You know what I've been doing all week? Writing cold DMs.

I spent an hour with Claude yesterday crafting one message. Nailed the positioning. Made the hook feel personal. Hit send. The person archived it without reading past the first line.

Last week Garry Tan (CEO of Y Combinator) shared his entire Claude Code setup on GitHub and called it "god mode."

He's sleeping 4 hours a night. Running 10 AI workers across 3 projects simultaneously. And openly saying he rebuilt a startup that once took $10M and 10 people. Alone, with agents.

It may feel like you ve considered everything:
product page, positioning, network support, social media content even day planning.

We thought we did too.

Genuinely asking, because my experience has been mixed.

Last time I launched here I reached out to a few founders, ended up on some really good calls, swapped notes on what's working. That felt anything but luck.

But I also know people who prepped for weeks and felt like they were shouting into the void on launch day.

This community is one of the most responsive I've seen. People actually try your product and leave real feedback. That part I trust.

After launch day, something interesting happens. You start seeing clearly all the things you should have done before it.

The most common regrets I hear:

We've been building Naoma for over a year. Pivoted from a sales analytics platform, rewrote the product from scratch, ran pilots, iterated, broke things, fixed them.

Tomorrow we launch on Product Hunt.

The idea is simple: B2B buyers shouldn't have to wait 5 days to see your product. Naoma runs a live AI demo the moment they click qualifies them, walks through the product, routes the right leads to sales or checkout. No scheduling. No waiting.

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?