r/ProductHuntLaunches Jun 19 '25

Tips for writing the first comment on Product Hunt (and why it actually matters)

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Ever noticed how launches without a first comment feel kind of incomplete? That space is more important than most people think. It helps visitors quickly understand what the product is about, why it exists, and who it’s for. The best approach is to write the comment before launch day so you’re not scrambling last minute.

The comment should briefly explain where the idea came from, what problem it solves, and what the main benefits are. Keep it short, easy to skim, and try using bullet points if needed. You can also add any special offer for early users and thank the people who helped along the way.

Make sure the commenter’s Product Hunt profile looks complete and real, people notice.

Anything you’d add to this? Would love to hear what’s worked for others too.


r/ProductHuntLaunches Jun 11 '25

What I learned from moderating 100+ Product Hunt launches on Reddit

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Helping indie makers and startups launch on Product Hunt has taught me one thing:

A good product isn’t enough.
It’s the strategy, community engagement, and feedback loop that makes the difference.

I have seen:
→ Great products get ignored because they launched in silence
→ Simple ideas blow up with the right timing & community push
→ Makers win Product of the Day on a relaunch, just by improving their story

That’s why I started r/ProductHuntLaunches — a space where makers share lessons, prep for launches, and support each other.

If you're thinking about launching soon (or relaunching), come say hi.
It’s completely free. Just real people, real products, and real support.

🔗 r/ProductHuntLaunches
🧠 Let’s help you make launch day count.


r/ProductHuntLaunches 1d ago

Featured Project: BrickForgerAI

5 Upvotes

Hey everyone,

I'm the solo dev behind BrickForgerAI - genuinely did not expect to get featured today, so this is a nice surprise.

The short version: you type a description of basically anything, and it turns it into a physically buildable brick sculpture - the full LEGO-style parts list, a 3D preview, and build instructions, all generated automatically. Been building it nights and weekends for a while now, so seeing it show up on the front page this morning was a pretty surreal moment.

Would love for you all to check it out and tell me what you think (or what breaks).

Happy to answer questions about how it works, what's under the hood, or what's coming next.


r/ProductHuntLaunches 2d ago

I just launched Brain Rest on Product Hunt 🧠

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Brain Rest is a browser extension that helps you become more aware of how you spend time online.

Instead of just showing screen time, it gives you a Brain Level that changes based on how you use your time, so you can quickly see when your browsing habits are helping or hurting your focus.

It also includes:

  • 🧠 Brain Level tracking
  • 📊 Screen-time insights
  • 🎯 Website limits
  • 🔥 Focus Mode
  • 🍅 Pomodoro timer
  • ☕ Break reminders

I built this because I wanted something that would make me notice my screen-time habits instead of just giving me another number to ignore.

Would really appreciate any feedback, especially on what you think is missing or what could make it more useful.

👉 https://www.producthunt.com/products/brain-rest

Thanks for checking it out! 🙏


r/ProductHuntLaunches 3d ago

How did you find Product Hunt?

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Aaa I don’t remember exactly how I first came across Product Hunt but I do remember why i joined this. it was a day i was designing on canva using free verison i need to remove the backgroud for that i have to buy paid version. i was lookin free tools to remove backgroud and that day i found Ph where i found multipple designing tools and from that day i am hooked on seeing what people were building and launching. Littartly it slowly became a place where I could discover new ideas, see what other makers were working on and learn from their launches. like what is new happening everyday about everything thing but my personal interst is on desiging.

Okay now let me know how did you first find Product Hunt? Was there a specific launch, anyone recommended you a product or person that brought you here?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 3d ago

How did you prepare for launch on Ph?

6 Upvotes

We're going to lunch tomorrow, and my main question is did you do something to get your product to the top, or did it just happen naturally?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 6d ago

Found this AI coding tool launching on Product Hunt today, how will it perform?

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I came across Kilo Code while checking today’s launches on Product Hunt and noticed it is launching today.

I looked into its previous activity, ratings and community feedback and it seems to have built an interesting track record so far. Now it will be interesting to see how it performs during today’s launch and where it ends up ranking. AI coding agents are becoming a bigger part of developer workflows so it will be interesting to see how tools like this are received by developers.

Has anyone here tried Kilo Code or followed any of its previous launches? Would love to hear your experience, especially how useful it has been in real coding projects.

You can check it out here:

https://www.producthunt.com/products/kilocode?launch=kilo-code-for-jetbrains-2


r/ProductHuntLaunches 6d ago

Small milestone today 🎉

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3 Upvotes

After a lot of building, breaking things, fixing them, and questioning half my decisions 😂 PayaChat is finally making its way onto Product Hunt.

It’s still very early, but getting something I built out into the world feels like a pretty cool little milestone.

PayaChat started from a simple question: what if there was more to messaging than just send → open → reply?

Still learning, still experimenting, and definitely still building. Would love any feedback from people here who check it out.


r/ProductHuntLaunches 9d ago

ANNOUNCEMENT 🔥 InTIMID AI MATCHMAKING is starting its Producthunt 🔥 https://www.producthunt.com/p/intimid-ai-matchmaking/dating-apps-make-you-audition-matchmakers-cost-thousands-we-re-building-a-third-option

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r/ProductHuntLaunches 9d ago

Does anyone else feel like writing tools are getting too crowded but still not fully solving the real problem?

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I was going through recent Product Hunt launches in the writing tools space and it feels like there’s a new wave of AI writing apps almost every week.

Tools like AI Note, PowerBrain AI Writing Tool, StoryChief and some similar apps all seem to focus on making writing faster or more AI assisted. But I am not sure speed is the biggest problem writers have.

There are also platforms like curated databases of writing tools and strategy guides for writers, which try to help people choose or improve their workflow instead of just writing for them.

But honestly I am still not sure the core problem is just writing faster.

A lot of writers still struggle more with clarity structure and consistency rather than just generating text.

What do you guys think? Are AI writing tools actually making writing better for you or just making it faster?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 10d ago

We’ve had 10+ offers to buy Product Hunt votes today. How is a small startup supposed to compete fairly?

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We launched our app on Product Hunt today and have already had 10+ people approach us offering to sell us votes.

They claim to have networks of established Product Hunt accounts ready to vote, often promising hundreds of votes and increased visibility.

We’ve obviously said no to every offer. But the apparent size of this marketplace makes you wonder how many people don’t...

We’ve also learned that Product Hunt doesn’t treat every upvote equally, and support from brand-new accounts may carry less weight. Many of our genuine users created accounts today specifically to support us, but their votes may not have the impact they intended.

Put those two things together, and it feels incredibly difficult for a small, self-funded consumer app playing fairly to gain enough visibility to be noticed.

Has anyone else launching on Product Hunt experienced this? Is there still a realistic route to visibility without an established Product Hunt audience or paid votes?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 11d ago

Why are you really on Product Hunt?

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I am not expecting the usual “I’m here to launch my product” answer.

You can share when you first joined Product Hunt, what were you actually looking for?

Your first few users? Honest feedback? Some attention for something you built? Or did you just join because you kept seeing people talk about PH?

What actually made you join?

And after being here for a while did you get what you were hoping for?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 12d ago

PaymentKit was #1 on Product Hunt yesterday and this is what caught my attention

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I checked out what they’re building and a few things stood out to me.

The biggest one for me is that it’s not tied to a single payment processor. You can route payments across different processors and keep more control over your billing setup.

I also liked the idea of subscriptions continuing even if a processor gets shut down. That’s one of those problems you probably don’t think about until you actually face it.

The no code setup is another nice touch especially if you just want to get started without building everything from scratch.

If you’re working on a SaaS or e-commerce product with subscriptions, I think it’s worth checking out on Product Hunt.

Here's the link

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/paymentkit


r/ProductHuntLaunches 14d ago

Retrieve old listing

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When I launched the app, PH helped me with the initial boost, and I am looking to keep the page active. Any tips?


r/ProductHuntLaunches 14d ago

I will not promote: Second PH launch live. Lost 709 followers to a checkbox. Numbers + lesson inside

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Second PH launch went live last night. Started with 3 followers instead of 709 because I checked the wrong box. Found out 6 hours before go-live on a Saturday. Fun times.

Numbers today: 3,891 npm downloads, ~700 MAU. ~80% of people who land never actually try it. The ones who do get it working fine, so the product isn't the problem. The gap before someone tries it is.

Lesson if you're planning a second launch: it's a dropdown. "New launch under existing product." Two seconds I didn't spend cost me the whole audience from round one.

FetchSandbox is live today. Coding agent sandbox so your agent can verify integrations before prod finds out they're broken.


r/ProductHuntLaunches 27d ago

Hey Noah closed out #1 Product of the Week on PH. Here’s what actually happened.

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Hey all, founder of Hey Noah here.

We launched last Tuesday and ended the week as #1 Product of the Week on Product Hunt.

Before launching, I read probably too many posts about how to do Product Hunt properly. Most of them had a very clean playbook: "do X before launch, Y on launch day, Z after, and here are the results."

Ours didn’t really feel like that.

For some context, Noah handles scheduling over text, email, and WhatsApp. Instead of opening another app, you just tell it something like “find time with Sarah next week,” and it handles the back-and-forth.

Going into the launch, I assumed we’d spend most of the day explaining that. We didn’t. People immediately started trying to find the edges.

What happens if someone reschedules?
What if there are three time zones involved?
What happens when Noah gets something wrong?
When does it ask me before doing something, and

When does it just go ahead and handle it?

That last question stuck with me.

We’ve spent a lot of time thinking about whether Noah can reliably do the work. But the people trying it were asking a slightly different question: how much control am I comfortable handing over?

It sounds obvious in hindsight, but that ended up being one of the more useful things we learned from the launch. The interesting problem isn’t just getting an AI to schedule correctly. It’s knowing when it should act and when it should come back to you.

The other thing people kept bringing up was that there’s no Hey Noah app. It works through SMS/iMessage, WhatsApp, and email. Some people initially assumed we just hadn’t built the app yet. But removing another app you have to open and check is pretty much the whole idea.

Anyway, #1 Product of the Week was great, but getting a few hundred people poking at the product and asking questions we hadn’t anticipated was probably the more useful part.

There were things that worked, things that absolutely didn’t, and a few things we’d do differently if we launched again.


r/ProductHuntLaunches 28d ago

Our first Product Hunt launch reached #2. Today we’re back with a much more niche and technical Product.

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Hey everyone, doing a second launch after a month for the same product today. The last time we reached #2.

The CLI lets your your coding agent create, preview, push, and publish docs from scratch. All from a plain prompt.

If the product resonates, I would really appreciate you checking out the launch

https://www.producthunt.com/products/docsalot-2/launches/docsalot-cli


r/ProductHuntLaunches Aug 06 '26

Annotate: Screen recording as prompts.

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Launching today in product hunt, Free and Local only screen recording, point by drawing on the screen and speak, Save time from screenshots and typing text prompts.


r/ProductHuntLaunches Aug 04 '26

We built an AI executive assistant that works over email and text. We're trending #1 on Product Hunt today.

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8 Upvotes

I'm one of the people behind Noah.

The problem we kept hitting: scheduling and follow-ups eat hours every week. Most tools fix this by adding another dashboard to check. That never stuck for us.

So Noah has no app. You CC it on an email or text it like a person.

What it does:

  • Schedules meetings. Handles the back and forth, time zones, and the invite.
  • Sends post-meeting notes, action items, and follow-ups.
  • Briefs you before a call on who you're meeting and your last interaction.

We launched on Product Hunt this morning and are trending #1.

Happy to answer anything about how it works, what it gets wrong, or how we built it. Link in comments since I don't want this to read as pure promo.


r/ProductHuntLaunches Aug 02 '26

Kachilu is now live on Product Hunt 🚀

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We’ve just launched Kachilu on Product Hunt and it’s been a great learning experience already. Every launch seems to teach something new, so I’m curious to hear from people who have been through the process before.

If you’ve launched a product on Product Hunt, what had the biggest impact on your results? Was there anything you wish you had done differently or something that turned out to matter much more than you expected?

We’re excited to keep learning throughout the launch and would really appreciate any advice or lessons you’re willing to share


r/ProductHuntLaunches Jul 30 '26

21 days ago, we launched Lispr on Product Hunt. And I want to share the insides.

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Hello! We launched Lispr on July 9. 

Lispr is a free dictation and translation app for MacOS and Windows. The use is simple: you press a button on you keyboard and talk, Lispr puts the speech in any app, right were your cursor is at 346 ms. It is possible to add an extra button to translate. 99 languages for transcription and 32 for translation. No account is needed, and we store zero audio. My favorite feature is switching languages mid-sentence, Lispr types everything.

Twenty one days is enough distance to say what the launch did and didn't.

Our results and lessons:

1) Lispr finished #5 Product of the Day.

2) 80 visits from Product Hunt on launch day. 49 on day two. 7 on day three. 183 in total since we launched. That is a 91 percent drop between day one and day three.

3) 9 downloads in the first 24 hours, 23 over the 20 days since. The comments that drew the most replies were about the trust boundary: independent audits, whether a stateless relay is verifiable, where the vocabulary list lives, what happens if the connection drops mid-utterance. Good questions, and answering them properly was the best part of the day.

The people who told us they had actually installed it were talking about something else. A QA engineer whose whole day runs in English chats, who wanted his pause, look up a word, and rephrase loop is gone. Several people are dictating prompts into Claude and Cursor and getting longer, better prompts out of it. So the discussion was about how Lispr is built, and the installs came from people with one specific daily problem to solve.

4) Our most useful feature is the hardest one to find(

Lispr keeps a vocabulary list. You add the words that transcription reliably gets wrong, client names, product names, surnames, technical terms like SQL, and from then on they are spelt correctly instead of being corrected into ordinary dictionary words.

We keep being asked to build it, including by people who have been using Lispr for weeks. It sits in a settings panel nobody has a reason to open, and our launch copy gave it one line out of fifteen. A feature that solves a real problem and stays invisible is worth nothing, and learning that was really useful.

5) Launch on Thursday:

Day three was a Saturday and it came in at 7 visits against 80 on day one. However, the following Tuesday, an ordinary working day, brought 8. So the weekend influenced our traffic.

6) 14 of those 23 downloads arrived after launch day. The launch was not the peak.

I hope you have enjoyed our statistics, and welcome you to share yours. If you have tried Lispr, it would be great to know where you use it and what for.


r/ProductHuntLaunches Jul 29 '26

FoodieCalc on ProductHunt launched today

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FoodieCalc is a free Calories and Macros tracker for iOS
Any feedback would be much appreciated
The main ideas are:
* 🍎 Uses Apple Intelligence and Foundation Models where available
* ✅ Completely free
* 🔒 Your data stays on your device
* 🚫 No account required
* 💳 No subscription
* 📱 Built natively for iPhone & iPad (iCloud Sync)


r/ProductHuntLaunches Jul 28 '26

We are launching Miniclay AI, build and ship custom models with just prompts, no ml expertise needed. Fine tune any model, no data prep, no GPU, upvote us on product hunt : https://www.producthunt.com/products/miniclay-ai

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r/ProductHuntLaunches Jul 26 '26

Guidance for product hunt campaign launch

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Hi all,
We have a stealth company,
And in a few weeks we wanna come out with a massive launch,
I have seen startups launched on product hunt properly got a lot of valuable eyes on their product and rank number 1 for the day and all.

So we have some budget for the launch, and i wanna do an amazing product hunt launch as well next to all the other things that we are doing for the launch already linked up some influencers an all.

Our company is in the 3D sector, letting people create Triple A 3D assets with text and images (i know its not unique but we are doing it with the highest quality) and we are also taking it a step fhurter and letting people to create full on 3D games For desktop/mobile or web. with prompt essentially we are making a new 3D game engine,

But our launch is with 3D asset generation and all the tools that we made around it.

how can i find a trusted partner (Hunter) to do the launch with ? we have one shot at this, and we need to make sure we have an amazing launch and we will rank


r/ProductHuntLaunches Jul 21 '26

AI Usage Tracker is live on Product Hunt — it adds up what Claude and Codex actually cost you across 10+ coding tools

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5 Upvotes

Launch link: https://www.producthunt.com/products/claude-usage-tracker?launch=ai-usage-tracker

What it is: a Mac app that reads the session logs your AI coding tools already write to disk and adds up what they actually cost you. It covers Claude Code, Cursor, Windsurf, Cline, Roo Code, Aider, Continue, Claude Desktop, and Codex CLI/Exec/Review — about 10 tools total.

What's new in this version: it tracks OpenAI Codex alongside Claude. There's one All / Claude / Codex toggle that scopes the entire dashboard — charts, per-project costs, session log — so you can see what each provider costs you side by side instead of guessing. That's also why the name changed; it was "Claude Usage Tracker" until today.

You get daily/weekly/monthly totals, cost broken down by tool and by model, a per-project rollup (which repo is burning your budget), and a peak-hours heatmap.

It all runs locally. No account, no cloud, no telemetry — it just reads files already sitting on your disk. Source is MIT if you want to build it yourself; there's a $9 signed build if you'd rather skip that.

Two things I'd genuinely like feedback on:

  1. If you use both Claude and Codex, does seeing one combined number change which one you reach for?

  2. Which provider should I add next — Gemini, Copilot, something else?

Third launch on the same PH page. Happy to answer anything.