Product Hunt is a great place to launch a developer tool.
Many developer-first products successfully launched there. For inspiration, you can find stories and examples below.
This repository includes a wiki with bit-sized pro tips and discussions to help you prep your launch and enjoy it.
It also includes:
- product-hunt-launch-kit.md: required inputs to submit a new product;
- product-hunt-community-kit.md: ideas to leverage your network;
Want to contribute? Awesome! See here: CONTRIBUTING.md
+ watch this repo to get notifications about new product launchesPOTD= Product of the Day;POTW= Product of the Week;POTM= Product of the Month;
Sorted by launch date.
| Launch date | Product | POTD |
POTW |
POTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|
2024-11-10 |
Trench | #3 | ||
2024-10-30 |
bolt.new | #1 | #2 | #9 |
2024-10-11 |
Octomind QA Agent | #1 | ||
2024-10-10 |
Latitude | #2 | ||
2024-10-09 |
Layouts.dev | #2 | ||
2024-09-25 |
Workflow Kit by Inngest | #5 | ||
2024-08-22 |
Helicone AI | #1 | #2 | |
2024-08-08 |
Inkeep | #3 | ||
2024-08-01 |
Not Diamond | #1 | ||
2024-06-23 |
UI Components by Auth0 | #3 | ||
2024-06-13 |
Liveblocks 2.0 | #4 | ||
2024-06-12 |
MotherDuck | #5 | ||
2024-05-23 |
StarSearch by OpenSauced | #3 | ||
2024-04-26 |
Langfuse 2.0 | #1 | #8 | |
2024-04-23 |
Subframe | #1 | #4 | |
2024-04-18 |
Pullpo.io | #2 | ||
2024-04-17 |
Dagster+ | #5 | ||
2024-04-15 |
Supabase | #1 | #1 | #1 |
2024-03-27 |
Daytona | #2 | #6 | |
2024-03-16 |
Stacktape | #3 | ||
2024-02-26 |
Octomind | #3 | #7 | |
2024-02-08 |
Retell AI | #5 | ||
2024-01-25 |
Corbado | #4 | ||
2023-12-19 |
Pieces Copilot | #2 | ||
2023-11-15 |
OpenMeter | #2 | #8 | |
2023-11-02 |
Liveblocks Comments | #5 | ||
2023-10-18 |
LastMile AI | #2 | #4 | |
2023-10-17 |
Appwrite Cloud Beta | #4 | ||
2023-10-11 |
OpenSauced | #5 | ||
2023-10-10 |
Frigade | #4 | ||
2023-10-09 |
Payload 2.0 | #2 | ||
2023-09-28 |
Unrevealed | #4 | ||
2023-09-19 |
Graphite | #2 | #2 | #3 |
2023-09-12 |
Permit.io | #1 | #2 | #6 |
2023-09-08 |
Gitstart | #1 | #6 | |
2023-08-20 |
Langfuse | #1 | #9 | |
2023-08-10 |
AI SQL Editor by Supabase | #1 | #6 | |
2023-06-23 |
Pieces for Developers | #5 | ||
2023-06-08 |
Supabase Vector | #5 | ||
2023-05-10 |
Raycast Pro | #1 | #4 | #9 |
2023-04-03 |
Lago | #1 | #1 | #1 |
2023-03-17 |
Warp AI | #2 | #6 | |
2023-02-23 |
Raycast AI | #5 | ||
2023-02-22 |
Typo | #1 | #1 | #2 |
2023-02-08 |
Resend | #2 | #2 | #2 |
2022-09-21 |
Appwrite | #1 | #2 | #6 |
2022-07-20 |
Raycast for Teams | #4 | ||
2022-06-13 |
Mintlify | #1 | #7 | |
2022-04-06 |
Warp | #1 | #3 | #3 |
2022-02-24 |
Specify | #2 | #9 | |
2021-11-30 |
Raycast API and Store | #1 | #4 | |
2021-11-05 |
Session Management by Clerk | #5 | ||
2021-09-29 |
Railway | #3 | ||
2021-07-29 |
Liveblocks | #4 | ||
2021-04-22 |
Clerk | #4 | ||
2021-02-17 |
Ray.so | #3 | #2 | #4 |
- Want to add more examples? Awesome! See here: CONTRIBUTING.md
- If you enjoyed this list, please do repost this
Non-exhaustive list of alternative places to launch dev-first products. Domain ratings by Ahrefs. More suggestions in this repository.
- Beta Console (54)
- DevHunt (55)
- Hacker News (ShowHN) (90)
Sorted by release date.
- Product Hunt Launch Guide by Product Hunt
- Lessons from 42 launches on Product Hunt (2024) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
- Automate a Product Hunt launch (2024) by @colegottdank (launched Helicone AI, ranked #1 POTD)
- How Daytona survived from Product Hunt (2024) by @nkko (launched Daytona, ranked #2 POTD)
- #1 Developer Tool of the Month (2023) by @tanya-rai (launched LastMile AI, ranked #2 POTD)
- How Permit.io got #1 Product of the Day (2023) by @danielbass37 (launched Permit.io, ranked #1 POTD)
- Lago's Product Hunt Launch Playbook (2023) by @anhtho-lago (launched Lago, ranked #1 POTM);
- Launching dev tools on Product Hunt (2022) by @ronakganatra (launched GraphCMS, ranked #5 POTD)
- Launching on Product Hunt on Scaling DevTools (2024) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
- Setting up the launchpad (2022) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
This repository is maintained by @fmerian.
- launched twice on Product Hunt in 2022;
- contributed to launching 40+ dev-first products in 2023 and 2024;
- among the most active users;
- 2022 Community Member of the Year (runner-up).
+ currently available for work: hello at fmerian.comFollow me @fmerian on 𝕏 for more insights.
Enjoy your launch day!