... remember many people getting demotivated after not being featured and leaving the platform. In my opinion, that's not the best idea. Why? One product shouldn't define your aversion to it in the future. Once you build a community or personal brand, you can try again next time (for example, with a better product update) or with a different product. You never know if the next one will be good enough to reach the top spots. My recommendation ... ... easiest thing is to give up, but if you don't try, you're not only risking nothing, you're also guaranteeing you gain nothing. Zero results. What advice would you give to people who, despite not being featured

... QA.tech first launched on Product Hunt in 2024. On October 8, 2025, they announced 1.0 . Here's a recap of how it went, hour by hour.  12:01:AM:PST going live Step 1: getting featured. Check! For the first 4 hours of the day, Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early." Source Pro tip: To monitor your launch day in real time ... ... /launch-day to your post URL. View comments that need responding, your most notable voters, where your product ranks and how much time is left in the day. Fun fact: @Product Hunt launched this feature

... thanks to everyone who cheered us and gave us feedback. We christened Sep 28 as Don t Sell. Solve Problems day and many endorsed this idea. We were happy to end at rank #9, just after the 8 featured products : #9 indicated the immense love we got vs

... brand mentions across these models in real time, analyses sentiment and provides prompts showing how and where the brand is being referenced. It also sends real time alerts when a brand is cited by an AI model and offers competitor monitoring to identify positioning gaps. Thirdeye as one of the most-advanced AI analytics and recommendation platform that helps brands get discovered not just on Google but inside ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity, emphasising that if you aren t cited ... ... platforms such as ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini are becoming the new homepage for information, so brands must optimise for visibility across these models. This shift is supported by wider industry data: according to Nowspeed s guide on AEO vs

... take (from hunting PH launches): I usually recommended finalizing launch assets before publishing/scheduling on PH rather than relying on teasers. A few reasons why:  PH moderators have mentioned teaser traction isn t considered when deciding which products get featured.  Even if 1,000+ people hit Notify Me, you ll still want to nudge your friends / community on the launch day. The teaser page is slightly useful to onboard friends/colleagues new to PH, but beyond that its value ... ... limited. A big risk: Teasers required scheduling first, so teams often upload assets piecemeal. PH mods can review early, and incomplete pages hurt your chances of being featured

... Product Hunt community! We're thrilled to announce that AIXYZ is officially live! As we grow, we're offering free featured listings to our early supporters. Be among the first 100 tools to join and get top placement , social media promotion , and a shoutout in our launch newsletter for the first month! I m beyond excited to introduce AIXYZ , your ultimate directory for discovering 1,500+ of the best AI tools across every category. We built AIXYZ after countless hours ... ... discover! Detailed AI Tool Pages : Each tool has its own page with details on what it does, pricing (free, paid, or freemium), and a direct link to explore. Latest AI News : Stay ahead with a dedicated news section featuring

... Product Hunt team has to face many new launches every day and try to test products on their own which is very time-demanding. Understandably, not every product gets into the "Featured section". (What is/is not featured

... Following on from what @gabe posted on the forum ( I decide what's featured on the leaderboard - AMA w/ Gabe from Product Hunt ) you can be more "clear" why you didn't make it to the featured

... Desmond(@desmond_ren1): Hi, I can't seem to find a way to send messages to other hunters (please let me know if I'm mistaken), which certainly blocks communication between us. Are there any plans to add this feature? Comment from Sofia Bettari(@sofia__bettari): Hey @rajiv_ayyangar thanks for your time and this AMA. My question is: I have to launch a new feature

... free plan, discount code, demo account, shoutouts and more, as I don't have a big audience and hoped to get the most out of this opportunity as I only got one shot. Unfortunately, it didn't get featured. I do have some enthousiastic users, and during the first hour, I had more upvotes than many of the featured

... getting upvotes. I found a random Hunter with no followers. I wanted the whole process to be fully organic, to see how PH works. I got 85 signups to my app from the whole launch. I did not get featured on the main page. Spoke directly with the PH team about how to get featured

... needs your product most and focus on solving their problem first. Building for all is a recipe for disaster. 3. Product management is an underrated skill for founders. Customer feedback and suggestions should not be literally translated into product features. Using customer suggestions to identify their pain point and then designing a viable solution is the right way to do it. 4. Celebrating a feature