... facts are closer to the same fact than they look here's the eval that actually predicts whether your thing ships. There's a number that decided which model your product runs on. You saw it on a leaderboard or in a launch post 94% on this, state-of-the-art on that and it did its job: it made you feel safe picking. I've done exactly this. That number is close to useless for the thing you actually ... ... save them. When you change a prompt or swap a model, rerun those twenty and read the paths, not just the outputs. That's it. Twenty hand-picked real traces will tell you more about your product than any leaderboard

... Classic early-stage mistake, sharing it so you can skip it. We assumed gamification would drive engagement from day one. Badges, progress bars, real-time feedback. We even built a full leaderboard before launch. Then we stepped back and realized: a leaderboard

... just launched a product on Product Hunt for the first time, and it made me realize how little I actually understood about launching on PH. There are obviously things like upvotes and leaderboard position, but I'm starting to think those aren't necessarily the most important indicators. For makers who've launched here before: What actually made a difference for your launch? I'm particularly curious about things like: Did comments matter more than you expected ... ... your first genuinely interested users? Did you focus on the leaderboard

... clock face. Genius and incompetence living in the same box, and no obvious seam between them. That gap between capability and reliability is the thing most makers are quietly getting wrong right now. The instinct is to open a leaderboard, pick whatever's at the top, wire it in, and ship. The demo is dazzling. Then production happens. Across enterprise deployments this year, teams are seeing roughly a 37% gap between benchmark scores in the lab and how the same ... ... through. That's not an edge case. That's every user you have. So what do you do about it, concretely? Three things, none of them glamorous. Build your own eval from real transcripts, not a public benchmark. Your leaderboard

... trivia app over the past few months, and one thing I've realized is that creating questions is only half the challenge. Keeping users engaged day after day is much harder. Many quiz apps rely on daily rewards, streaks, leaderboards, XP systems, or achievements. Others focus on multiplayer, user-generated quizzes, or personalized learning. Each approach seems to work for different audiences. I'm curious about what actually keeps people coming back. If you've used or built a quiz ... ... educational, or casual game: What feature made you open it again the next day? Do you prefer competing on leaderboards

... Hello! I am working on Bouncing Ball, a simple pixel-art arcade game for Android. Move the wooden plank, keep the ball bouncing, beat your high score, and compete on the global leaderboard. The game is starting with Endless Mode: quick runs, simple controls, and a competitive score chase. I would love feedback from players who enjoy small arcade games that are easy to understand but hard to master. Let me know what you think! Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/ap... ...

... like to discuss how launch-day events and sponsored leaderboards can create fair discovery opportunities for smaller makers. When hundreds of products launch on the same day, teams with established audiences can generate early votes and comments. For newer projects without that audience, being placed low in the leaderboard

... planning doc we wrote before launch. So I wanted to write down what we heard, what it changed, and where we're headed. What these three days felt like Launch day was a blur of Slack pings and leaderboard refreshes. But once the adrenaline settled, we realized the operators showing up weren't asking "what does it do?" they were pressure-testing whether they could trust it to act on their store. That's a better problem to have ... ... Team Lead is steered by margin floors, send-frequency caps and brand rules not merely blocked at individual high-stakes steps. A small ask If ClawTeams resonates with you, we'd be grateful for your support on the weekly leaderboard

... guys, today we shipped Founder Leaderboards on ExploreYC : ~3,000 YC founders (and growing), deduped across every company they've started, ranked four ways: Most Funded Unicorn Founders Biggest Exits Serial Founders some of it's who you'd expect - the Collison brothers and the Airbnb crew up top. Some of it's a rabbit hole: the same names keep resurfacing across batches. Kyle Vogt (Twitch Cruise), Justin Kan, and Parker Conrad have each done YC more than once ... ... contribute and explore how can we do that! sounds like a cool feature Comment from vmonome(@taskrelayhq): This is a fun rabbit hole the repeat-founder pattern (Vogt, Kan, Conrad) is the interesting part, way more than the leaderboard

... median points needed to break the top 5 and top 10 on each day. Check the full report here: https://app.databox.com/shared/a... The short version: Saturday is the easiest day. Only 266 median points to crack top 5, vs 360 on Wednesday. That's a 35% harder climb on the worst day vs

... Imports a retro/ROM collection and auto-fills box art + metadata by file hash no manual scraping, and it sets up RetroArch for you Automatically backs up your save files so you don't lose progress Stats, achievements, and global leaderboards across your whole library think Gamerscore, but for  everything  you play instead of one platform An in-app economy with credits you earn for actually playing your games and a store to spend them to unlock features ... ... backlog manager that incentivizes you to finish the games you own instead of buying more Global leaderboards

... Early Access Offer: First 10,000 on the signup will get FREE Verified access Refer more friends = earn more Verified months (up to 3 months FREE) Unlock exclusive Day-1 features the moment you join Real-time referral leaderboard top referrers get special rewards How it works: 1. Join GRK Social 2. Message @prime on GRK Social to activate 3. Refer friends & climb the leaderboard

... freelancer, A YouTube channel, An online store, A software product, A personal project The goal is simple: Get visibility. The part that makes Uppale different Every Slot has a value. That value determines its ranking position inside a public leaderboard. Unlike traditional advertising platforms, nobody owns a position forever. Every Slot continuously loses value through a public mathematical decay mechanism. Currently the decay rate is 0.4% per hour. This means visibility is always fluid. No hidden ranking factors. No recommendation ... ... algorithms. No engagement farming. No mysterious score that only the platform understands. Everything is visible and predictable. Refuels and Boosts: Slot owners can increase their own Slot value through Refuels. However, moving up the leaderboard

... recurring piece of feedback after launching PH Radar was that makers want more context, not just rankings. I'm currently experimenting with a BI layer that analyzes Product Hunt activity beyond the daily leaderboard. Current prototype dashboards include:: Launches by category Votes by category Hunter activity Comment-to-vote ratios Historical launch trends My goal is to help makers answer questions like: Which categories are becoming more competitive? Which hunters are consistently active? When is the best time to launch ... ... nothing actually gets resolved. If you can, grade whether a reply closes the question rather than just touches it. Even a crude signal helps, reply length relative to the question, or whether it carries a link or a number versus

... Tomorrow is Alpha Day Same deal as before. If this is the first time your product is going anywhere public, launch by midnight tonight (PT time), add the Alpha launch tag, and you'll be put on a special leaderboard. Alpha launches also get a boost on the leaderboard

... been sitting on a launch, this is your window. Schedule your Product Hunt launch for Friday and be sure to add the Vercel Day launch tag to be included on the official Vercel Day leaderboard. That's where the eyes are going to be. Here's what's on the table for top launches: Pitch to Vercel Ventures the top launch gets in front of Vercel's investment team directly Vercel credits runners up take home serious Vercel credits ... ... toward whatever you're building This isn't a standard leaderboard

... teamed up with Vercel and we want you shipping this Friday. May 15 is Vercel Day. Launch your product on Product Hunt that day with the Vercel Day tag and you're on the official Vercel Day leaderboard alongside every other builder going live that day. Top launches win prizes and get serious visibility from a crowd that's already paying attention. This is the move if you've been waiting for a reason to launch. You've got four ... ... Vercel. You describe your deck in plain text or voice, AI builds it in seconds, export real PowerPoint. Changing my launch to May 15 to be part of Vercel Day. tryriffly.app Comment from Sagar Kalra(@sagar_kalra1): The co-leaderboard

... launched. You got upvotes. Maybe you hit the top 10. Then silence. The leaderboard moved on. Your product is still great. No one is talking about it. Most makers accept this. The launch is over. It is not. Your product needs to be found in AI answers, search results, and by people who never saw your launch day. That takes more than upvotes. It takes content, optimization, and tracking. We want to help one maker with that. Free. Using Rankfender ... ... rank. AI visibility tracking. Rankfender will track where your product appears in ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Gemini. Not just by name. By category. "What are the best tools for X?" You will see if you are winning or invisible. Competitor

... broke the scoring system down in a public thread. One repost from a builder I respect 23 signups overnight. Lesson: nobody cares about your launch. They care about a number that means something to them . What worked Public streak leaderboards (people compete for the line they're on) Showing the homepage live, even when it was half-empty One phrase "vibe score" that nobody asked for and everyone wanted Twitter replies that didn't pitch the product What didn ... ... milestone. It's a starting line. Next 34 days: 500 active builders, vibe scores that predict who actually ships, and the first hires made on score alone. If you ship come prove it. If you hire come watch the leaderboard

... people committed to typing everything out). It works anywhere on your Mac or PC, so you can just talk and have clean text land wherever your cursor is. For the next three days, it is showing up on the leaderboard in a different way. From April 14 to 16, you can upvote and comment on Product Hunt using Wispr Flow directly. If you use dictation, those upvotes and comments will carry a bit more weight. Try it out by clicking ... ... Wispr Flow unit on the Leaderboard

... Vercel Day is live on Product Hunt today. We teamed up with @Vercel for a special launch day, which means there s a dedicated leaderboard full of teams shipping on Vercel, all in one place. More launches, more competition, more reasons to spend too long refreshing the page. There is also a lot on the line. Vercel will pick five startups to get access to Vercel VIP Startup Perks , worth $30k in Vercel credits , and one or more startups could ... ... invited to pitch to Vercel Ventures . Go check out the leaderboard

... teaming up with @Vercel for a special launch day on Product Hunt. If you re building on Vercel, schedule your launch for midnight PT on April 17 and tag it under 'Vercel Day' to be included in a dedicated leaderboard for the day. That means more visibility, more attention, and a leaderboard

... friends, Just a small PSA, hunter leaderboards are now back on hunted.space/top-hunters Now we can all see how far ahead @chrismessina is at this . If you have any feature requests, please let me know! Cheers ...

... your project gains stars, contributors, or commits, your score goes up without you doing anything. Projects also auto-verify on upload when your GitHub username matches the repo owner. No more manual "verify" clicks. Smart pagination Explore and leaderboard pages now have proper pagination with ellipsis, first/last jump buttons, and a "Go to page" input. No more scrolling through 80+ builders. Mobile experience Top Talent and Featured Projects sections now scroll horizontally on mobile with snap-to-card swiping. Notification ... ... navbar. The whole mobile experience feels native now. Display names + GitHub verification You can now set a display name (separate from username). If you signed up with GitHub OAuth, you get a blue verified checkmark across the platform profiles, leaderboard

... something new on Thursday: Alpha Day . The idea is simple. If this is the first time you re launching your product anywhere, you can tag it alpha and get a boost to your points (and land on a special leaderboard). This is for the genuinely fresh stuff. The products that are just getting out into the world. The ones that still need feedback, still have rough edges, and are way more interesting because of it. We re also putting more ... ... being an upvote race where the comments section is either empty or full of "congrats on the launch!" one-liners that add nothing. Shifting points toward actual discussion is a different kind of signal entirely. Also the separate leaderboard