Hi Product Hunt,

most launches end in single digits – and what decides that is usually settled before launch day: the choice of board. Almost nobody makes that choice deliberately, because almost nobody has counted what each board actually demands.

So we count it. LaunchAmp reads every launch day on Product Hunt, Uneed, Show HN, Fazier and SmolHunt after the day has closed and keeps the record: how many products entered, what the winner scored and what each placement down the ranking cost. 579 board days are on file so far.

What that looks like on a median day:

- Product Hunt: 703 launches, 124 upvotes to be featured

- Uneed: top ten from 4 upvotes

- Show HN: top ten from 9 upvotes

- Fazier: top ten from 26 upvotes

Everything that measures is free – no account, no email:

- Launch planner: enter the upvotes you can realistically bring and see on how many measured days that was enough for first place, the top five and the top ten on each board

- Launch check: put any Product Hunt launch against the whole day it ran in

- The five boards side by side, and the best day to launch on Product Hunt from our own medians

- A pre-launch checklist and the Launch Lounge, a free directory of indie tools with no votes and no rankings

Every figure is a median over the stated window, never a mean. We say what a placement costs in upvotes – never what it is worth in visitors, because no board publishes that.

The only paid things are two clearly labelled placements on LaunchAmp's own pages. We never sell, promise or arrange votes.

Which board should we count next? I'd love to hear where you launched and how it went.