PH Radar BI is now live.
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What started as a Product Hunt companion has become a BI layer for launches.
Custom dashboards, momentum, opportunity radar, hunter analytics, repeat launches, race replay, maker responsiveness — and more.
Special thanks to @oshylabs and everyone in this forum whose feedback shaped a lot of this — repeat launches and the responsiveness signal came straight out of conversations here. (The responsiveness metric even caught a question I'd missed on my own launch.)
What's still missing? If you could add one metric to Product Hunt itself, what would it be?
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@m_m_carvalho Congrats on shipping it, and the thanks runs both ways. That back and forth sharpened how I think about what a launch actually signals.
One metric PH itself is missing: survival. Does the product still have a live site and a shipped update ninety days after launch day? Most launches are dead links within months, but the leaderboard treats day one as the whole story. A simple still alive at 90 days marker would tell people which launches became real products and which were launch day theatre. It is the one number that separates a milestone from a tombstone, and PH already holds the data to compute it.
@oshylabs @Arnold Oshenye
You nailed it. That's exactly the gap—PH celebrates day 1, but the real metric is day 90.
We're adding this to PH Radar PRO: Product Longevity
How it works:
- Automatic crawler checks if the product's site is still live
- Detects recent updates (changelog, blog, public commits, social activity)
- Badges: "Still Active", "90-day Survivor", "Recently Updated"
- Historical view: track which launches became real products vs which were theater
The insight you pointed out sharpens everything. Launch signals don't mean much
without the follow-through metric. A product that ships updates 90 days later
tells a different story than the rank ever could.
Thanks for the back-and-forth—it pushed us to build something that actually
separates signal from noise.
Launching in the next release.
Live on Chrome + Firefox — free to explore. Link: https://nodus-ai.app/ph-radar/ Happy to break down how any metric is computed.
This is the right build, and the badges are clean. One trap to design around before it ships: absence of a detected update is not evidence of death.
Plenty of real products sit on a static marketing page with no blog, no changelog and no public commits, yet ship constantly behind a login. If the crawler reads silence as decay, your most heads down builders get punished for not performing in public. I would keep site is live as the hard binary and treat recent updates as a positive signal that adds confidence, never a negative one that revokes it. A live site with no visible changelog is unknown, not dead.
Two edge cases worth handling early. A domain or brand change reads as a dead link but is often a pivot that worked, so a rename is not a death. And a parked or expired domain should score differently from a 200 that still serves the product. Get those right and the 90 day survivor badge becomes a number people actually trust. Good to see it going in.