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Tools I use when launching on Product Hunt

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There are products I keep using when launching on Product Hunt -- products that help me craft beautiful assets, plan content distribution, and analyze results.

Here's my personal collection. How about you? What's your stack?

Tools I use when launching on Product Hunt:

What are yours?

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Curious, what do you like about over the native Product Hunt Launch Day dashboards? Anything we can build to make the hunter/maker launch day smoother?

 I use in 2 ways:

  1. Pre-launch, I look at the data from the past weeks to define when to launch

  2. On launch day, during the first 4 hours, to bypass the homepage randomization

For the former, I'd find it helpful to have this data available on Product Hunt.

   just reach out if we can do something on the Hunted Space side 😬

   Hey Flo, Hunted Space is good for sure, I used it when PH didn't have the native launch day analytics dashboard:

Do you know you can bypass the homepage randomization even on Product Hunt using the launch archive page? Here's the link for new users reading this comment:

 TIL - thanks, Rohan!

 I use the on Hunted Space as a kind of "heuristics view" to see the trends in number of products featured per day/upvote count thresholds/year-on-year engagement comparisons.

 Post 's recent launch, I might have 2 suggestions/feature requests related to the launch day dashboard.

For context, this was their 3rd launch on Product Hunt. They ranked #1 Product of the Week.

Currently, the launch day dashboard lets you compare with products launching the same day.

Feature requests:

  1. As a maker, I'd like to be able to compare with my previous launches

  2. I would also like to compare with this week/month's top products

Because there are many variables on a launch day, this comparison can't be accurate. However, this would give a signal on the overall launch performance, and this would be helpful for makers IMHO.

 Thanks for the suggestions!

Curious, what do you recommend for building engaging featured images?

 good q! I take product screenshots with and make them pixel-perfect using

Thanks for sharing your stack, I keep simple for launching, I use Chat GPT to restructure the text, Nano for generating the images, and google analytics from tracking the real traffic.

Oh I must admit I prefer manual work when it requires creativity - web artisan here 🖖

Solid list, ! and is a must-have.

For my recent remote work guide, I kept it even simpler: Notion for the roadmap and Tally for feedback. I’ve found that for info-products, a low-friction stack helps the content shine.

I’d also add Loom it's the best way to add a personal touch to a launch!

Just out of curiosity – any cool tool recommendation for beautiful smartphone recordings? Because many times I can see quite beautiful desktop videos/demos... but for smartphones it is not so easy. I will be launching soon some smartphone update and... it came to my mind that something like demo for smartphone app could be cool.

oh good question! may have some suggestions here?

Interesting stack! Thanks for sharing. Launching my first product on Product Hunt (exciting!) and so far I’ve used - ChatGPT for text - Nano for images - Rotato for app intro video - ElevenLabs for voice over

 thank you, likewise!

Great list! 💪🏻

Curious about the post-launch side, how do you usually track where traffic actually comes from after launch day? Sometimes the upvotes look great, but the real users come from unexpected places.


Do you rely more on UTM links or post-launch analytics tools? Curious what’s worked best for you after launch, if any.

 definitely ! they have powerful analytics built-in. see:

One thing I’ve learned is that the “launch stack” matters less than how quickly you can observe and react. Tools that show what’s actually working in the first few hours, traffic sources, drop-off points, where curiosity turns into intent end up being more valuable than perfect assets. Launch day is less about polish and more about feedback speed.