... wish I had known is that the question is not really when. It is featured or not featured

... handle this in the AI era where tokenization is part of your pricing decision? Comment from Dishant Singh(@dishantsinghdev): For my main tool I offer a free plan with features that most of my competitors

... 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

... everyone, Gabe here! I lead curating Product Hunt's leaderboard. First thing I will say is that if I could feature every single product that works, I would. I love supporting makers and demoing products. I actually try to test every single thing that gets hunted every day... which is A TON .  But I view our job as to surface the most interesting, novel, useful, and innovative products - daily. Now we may not always get it right, the process ... ... good. (Please share your thoughts!) Some of the things that I've been doing aside from testing and reviewing products is reaching out to makers to help them with their launches, provide feedback on why something may not be featurable

... 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

... understood in the first 5 10 seconds. Right now the value is strong, but the mental model (job CV scoring ranking) could be made more instantly obvious for first-time users. Curious how you re thinking about onboarding clarity vsfeature depth. Comment from Glen(@glen11): @matty_reed  clear positioning is usually the hardest part to get right early on. Curious how you re thinking about scaling it beyond direct landing page traffic? Comment from Glen(@glen11): @mahima_manik ... ... Comment from Peter Thompson(@pmatthewthompson): Dave - thanks! I like the idea of using images. An easy fix. Comment from Romany Refaat(@romanyrefaat_): @aaronoleary Thanks for your great insights! Can we recap? I basically have to do this: - Emerge the

... been amazing is to have a team of people - some new, some Product Hunt veterans, who are thought-partners in creating that future, while being grounded in our strengths. Comment from Rajiv Ayyangar(@rajiv_ayyangar): @nico_jeannen  we feature products that we believe our community should know about. Put another way, when I see a launch on Product Hunt, I want to feel that I'm, somehow, better for knowing about it. Sometimes the reason we featured

... 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

... core functionality down before moving towards UI and Design...however I often get stuck once it's on UI design as I can never get it the way I like. As I try to add more features I kinda get lost in the code and then break other things and eventually either abandon the app or simply decide to keep it super simple at the expense of features

... 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