In the 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
Because building products has become much more accessible thanks to AI, the bar has had to rise a bit, or at least the expectations have become stricter.
I built my own tool SafeLimit, but personally, I wouldn t launch it on Product Hunt yet because it s still very basic and doesn t even have a website.
