David Kaufman

Product Hunt is best known for its homepage, a daily leaderboard of the most creative and innovative products on the internet. Makers go all out to win launch day, because that visibility matters. Product Hunt also plays a significant role in how products appear in Google search results.

What surprised us was that AI assistants like ChatGPT were rarely citing Product Hunt in product recommendations.

I'm in the back half of my career, the first half spent in sales-related roles and Sales/CS leadership. I was always a technical person, but never a developer or engineer. Then AI hit, I leaned in hard, knowing that this was a race to learn before other people figured things out. Long story short, AI lowered the developer/engineer bar, and I'm now head of AI Innovation at my company and loving it. Who knows where this leads, but I'm loving getting paid to play with AI and build Innovation plays as my full-time job.

Last month, Cursor launched for the fifth time on Product Hunt in 2025.

The 2024 Product of the Year [1] still hits the charts. They have launched web and mobile agents, a visual editor, and 2.0, consistently ranking in the Top 5 Products of the Day.