... first half of 2026,  3,869 products  shipped on Product Hunt. We ran the whole stream through LinkedIn and Crunchbase to see what people launch, who the founders are, where they came from and what actually improves your odds. Part 1. The landscape: the AI wave and the dilution of attention Launches grew 434 (Jan)   900 (Apr peak)   521 (Jun), but average reception  fell  from 190 to 144 upvotes attention spreads thin ... ... India 160  (India nearly matches US reception). Schools: UC, Stanford, Oxford, Cornell, Tel Aviv. Part 3. What actually works at launch Teams win:  solo 123 2 3 = 188 4+ = 288; blended multi-maker avg ~227 vs

... cited, paraphrased, or absent? And if you have been named in AI answers, did you ever work out why? I am trying to understand whether it tracks with ranking, with being talked about on Reddit, with having a Crunchbase or Wikipedia entry, or with something else entirely. Comment from Gal Dayan(@galdayan): ran this check a while back and the pattern I found matches your Bing theory almost exactly - the browsing-enabled assistants (ChatGPT search, Perplexity) are basically doing live ...

... actually failed, spanning 22+ countries and industries from fintech to biotech to retail. Each entry includes funding history, investors, a sourced explanation of what actually went wrong, a timeline, and a plain-language lesson, built to be a genuine alternative to expensive tools like Crunchbase

... nika): @dinocorreia  I was the very first user of my tool (because the problem happened to me) :) Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @dinocorreia  To be honest, for now, I was able to find only one competitor of my product. So maybe people do not want it so much. Let's see how good I can be at selling the problem and then selling the solution :D Comment from Nika(@busmark_w_nika): @abidhusain  When you describe ... ... like this, it sounds complex. Does it have any competitors

... from Omri Ben-Shoham(@omri_ben_shoham1): honestly my move is usually just typing the idea into PH search plus a quick GPT sanity check, both feel incomplete because keyword search misses anything phrased differently and GPT just hallucinates competitors half the time. semantic search over an actual startup dataset sounds like the right fix rather than a workaround. one question - does ExploreYC only index companies that made it into a YC batch, or does it also catch stuff that ... ... real "someone already tried this and it didn't work" signal would be Comment from Mo MSGM(@mohammed_messeguem): Most people I know do a mix quick Google for exact matches, then browse a few category leaders on Crunchbase

... most of that stuff makes the internet worse. Causo is more of a research + outreach layer for founders and small teams who need leads, but do not want to spend half their week jumping between LinkedIn, Apollo, Hunter, Google, Crunchbase, Clay, Gmail, and 19 cursed tabs. What it does now: finds companies based on real criteria, not just database filters researches why they are relevant finds decision makers and emails drafts outreach in your voice lets you approve/edit before anything ...

... actually reach out Sometimes they reply they don t invest in your category. So I started doing something different. Instead of searching for investors, I started searching for recent funding rounds of startups similar to ours. Platforms like Crunchbase make this easy. You filter for: stage (pre-seed / seed) location industry similar startups Then you open the actual deals that happened. Inside those deals you can see: VC firms angel investors syndicates people who actually invested in similar companies ...

... actually reach out Sometimes they reply they don t invest in your category. So I started doing something different. Instead of searching for investors, I started searching for recent funding rounds of startups similar to ours. Platforms like Crunchbase make this easy. You filter for: stage (pre-seed / seed) location industry similar startups Then you open the actual deals that happened. Inside those deals you can see: VC firms angel investors syndicates people who actually invested in similar companies ...

... time crystals and quantum communication systems. Been designing those at the atomic level for nearly a decade. Super fun. Currently working through maturing universal scripting language for fun. Happy to chat about pretty much anything. More to come. Current crunchbase ranks: 28875, and 7. (helps me keep track of metrics.) Come say hi on LinkedIn ...

... workflows, etc.) What matters is what problem you re actually solving. In our case at Unicorns Club, we focus on something AI can t fake: verified founder-submitted data about early-stage startups. Especially now, when traditional databases like Crunchbase leaned heavily into AI-generated records and the accuracy dropped to an all-time low having human-validated data became 10 more valuable. So yes long live Orbit Awards! And long live the products built on real problems, real users ... ... fair and interesting! Comment from Kshitij Mishra(@kshitij_mishra4): To make Orbit more useful for founders A short why this ranked breakdown like mini report cards Review badges founders can embed on sites / social Clear separation between early traction vs

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... bringing it to a quick end, I can focus on my business. This gives me a sense of stability and control. The positive results - like getting a blog post to the top of Google or achieving a high Crunchbase Heat Score - bring a much-needed sense of positivity right now. Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): I hope everything will be okay with your family member. These times are so challenging, with so many difficulties. I m from Ukraine, and my parents ...

... Superhuman for email, Slack for team communication, Notion for tasks, Dropbox for files and storage, LinkedIn Sales Navigator for prospecting, Zoom for meetings, Calendly for scheduling, Apollo or Salesloft or Outreach for outreach, HubSpot or Salesforce for CRM, and Crunchbase for data and as a media distribution channel. It s an incredibly fragmented environment. Now imagine a team of 20 paying for this stack it adds up to over $80,000 per year, just to operate effectively. While each ...

... Superhuman for email, Slack for team communication, Notion for tasks, Dropbox for files and storage, LinkedIn Sales Navigator for prospecting, Zoom for meetings, Calendly for scheduling, Apollo or Salesloft or Outreach for outreach, HubSpot or Salesforce for CRM, and Crunchbase for data and as a media distribution channel. It s an incredibly fragmented environment. Now imagine a team of 20 paying for this stack it adds up to over $80,000 per year, just to operate effectively. While each ... ... Three-Fold Problem . After talking to 200+ professionals, I realized almost everyone feels this pain. A typical team uses: * Superhuman (email) * Slack (comms) * Notion (tasks) * Dropbox (storage) * Zoom, Calendly (meetings) * Apollo, Salesloft (outreach) * Salesforce, HubSpot (CRM) * LinkedIn, Crunchbase

... Blogs Write 1 2 blogs on your website and other platforms (e.g., Medium, Daily Dev, etc.). These blogs usually get indexed within a day or two. Step 6: Launch Your Directory List your directory on r elevant platforms like Crunchbase, SaaS Hub, Peerlist, Uneed, Microlaunch, etc. [Self Promo]: If you don't have time, I will be happy to help with Submission part with Boringlaunch . We submit startups to 100+ platforms in 7 days to improve their SEO score, especially ...

... searchable for later. The discussion thread title is auto saved as the link. Give it a whirl and see if that helps fill your need for now. Comment from Rohan Chaubey(@rohanrecommends): @mat_sherman PH can be BuiltWith competitor too :) Comment from Andr J(@alchemist_studio): @chrismessina For the app yes. I would suspect more people use the website. Esp if your new. Comment from Quentin Le Gall(@quentin_le_gall1): "Product Hunt Positioning" : an AI feature to help ... ... company's positioning refresh. You are forced to work on your value proposition, your competitive advantage, what you do best... Comment from Mat Sherman(@mat_sherman): I always thought it would be interesting to build a Crunchbase/Pitchbook competitor

... Crunchbase, PitchBook ...