Shoutouts by Product Hunt - Name drop the products that make your product awesome

There’s something magical that happens around product market fit. When a product has won the battle over incumbents by being 10x better, but is still far from the scale where platform decay starts to take hold. Products like Arc, Linear, Vercel - they inspire *love*. And yet there isn’t currently a way to show real love on Product Hunt. An upvote is an upvote like any other. A comment can spark a conversation, but it’s still one comment in a sea of many. This is one reason why, on a philosophical level, I’m intrigued by the idea of Shoutouts. They're a scarce resource (only 3 per launch), and so they can highlight the love and gratitude that early stage builders feel towards the tools that have made their life better, and their work better. My ask: Be authentic! Shout out the products that you truly loved using to build yours. We've given early access to a few products to test - and they're launching today! Check out Vapi, Kitemaker, Velt, and Dub.co I'd love to hear all your thoughts, questions, feedback, and suggestions!

Love for lovely software. As I sit here and think back to my early engineering days, tools of the time float across my mind. JQuery. Pre-es6 javascript (when I actually had to understand prototypical inheritance). Early versions of Node.js (when JavaScript on the server seemed laughable). I then jolt back to reality. I gaze deeply and lovingly at my VS Code editor with so many nifty extensions, such wonderful linters, and the always-willing-to-help copilot. I look around at the TypeScript types saving me from a myriad of runtime errors in production. As programmers, our function today is not so different than 15 years ago (we haven’t been replaced by AI just yet). But our tools do feel different. Shoutouts are a way for us to show off the tools that turned a day-long task into one hour, allowed us to build, scale, and grow our businesses in a way we could never imagine, or simply made us smile. Think of Shoutouts as a way to show love for lovely software. Or as a way to pay it forward. And surely somebody will crack a smile when they use your product and a Shoutout will come your way.

I love the special moment when I discover a new product that makes me feel like, WOW, this was built just for me. You know it when it happens because it makes your work and/or life exponentially more enjoyable — and it’s even more delightful when they continue to solve new problems that you didn’t even realize you had! I often show my love and obsession for these products by doing things like sending fanmail full of emojis and gratitude, volunteering my time as a beta tester, sharing lots of live feedback etc. (Maybe some of this sounds familiar to others as well. <3) Sometimes, a shoutout on social media, especially for those without a huge reach, can feel like such a fleeting moment that can be easily forgotten, overlooked or lost in a sea of competing posts for virality. This is why I am pumped for Shoutouts to be our first segue into creating a space on Product Hunt for makers to publicly share this love (and healthy obsession!) with products in a way that is meaningful, will persist and create more value over time for both the products giving and receiving the shoutout. Try it out, support your fave products and makers and share your feedback with us! We’re just getting started and look forward to exploring how Shoutouts can continue to help us create the kind, uplifting community Product Hunt is known for.

Love this and loved seeing the team collaborate on this in a few short days in SF! Going to be shouting out a lot of products over the next few months as I launch a few things!

This is super cool. Powerful!

Shout out to velt.dev for their product hunt launch! Did I do that right?

Super proud of the team for working so fast and passionately to get Shoutouts launched! Like many new features, Shoutouts is an "aha" moment. No product stands alone. We're all building an ecosystem that we progress with together... 👉 Many of you want to support fellow makers during launch — especially the ones making killer products that made crafting your product possible. 👉Makers behind those products love to see their product in your stack. It helps them continue to share their story. 👉 Users and product enthusiasts like myself always want to see what the best of the best are using. The PH content team is excited use your Shoutouts to help elevate great product stories so this is just the start!

That's a amazing perfectly touching to what makes PH special, a community where tools and creators have each other back. Love it, can't wait to use it!

Big congrats team. Looks great. Would be great if you could add premium subscription with verification and private messages 🦄❤️

This is super cool. Already used it for our launch! Would also be awesome to provide shoutout to our most awesomest users 😊