Product Hunt is a great place to launch a developer tool.
Many developer-first products successfully launched there. You can find here their stories and more examples for inspiration.
This repository includes a wiki with bit-sized pro tips and discussions to help you prep your launch and enjoy it.
It also includes:
- product-hunt-launch-guide.md: best practices when launching on Product Hunt
- product-hunt-launch-kit.md: required inputs to submit a new product
- product-hunt-community-kit.md: ideas to leverage your network
Want to contribute? Awesome! See here: CONTRIBUTING.md
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POTD= Product of the DayPOTW= Product of the WeekPOTM= Product of the Month
Sorted by launch date. Go to next section (#alternatives) ↓
| Launch date | Product | Tagline | POTD |
POTW |
POTM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
2025-08-25 |
AI Elements by Vercel | The shadcn/ui component library for building AI-native apps | #5 | ||
2025-08-12 |
v0.app by Vercel | The AI builder for everyone | #4 | ||
2025-08-03 |
Hypertune | Type-safe feature flags. Optimized for React and Next.js | #4 | ||
2025-07-29 |
Magic Patterns | Design new features with AI | #1 | ||
2025-06-25 |
FlashDocs API | Custom Google Slides & PowerPoints via AI-powered API | #2 | #5 | |
2025-06-23 |
AI Assistant by Mintlify | A conversational, agentic asisstant built into your docs | #3 | ||
2025-06-18 |
Liveblocks 3.0 | Ready-made AI copilots and collaboration for your product | #1 | #6 | |
2025-06-17 |
Laravel Nightwatch | First-class monitoring designed for Laravel | #4 | ||
2025-06-06 |
next-forge | Production-grade template for modern Next.js apps | #4 | ||
2025-05-25 |
Kibo UI | Advanced, open-source components for shadcn/ui | #3 | ||
2025-05-21 |
Schematic | Ship pricing faster: usage based billing & customer portals | #3 | ||
2025-05-19 |
Appwrite Sites | The open-source Vercel alternative | #1 | #4 | #4 |
2025-05-18 |
Magic UI | UI library for Design Engineers | #1 | ||
2025-04-28 |
cubic | Cursor for code review | #1 | #1 | |
2025-04-11 |
cognee | Memory for AI Agents in 5 lines of code | #3 | ||
2025-04-08 |
Metabase Embedded Analytics | Get in-product analytics quickly without waiting for spints | #3 | ||
2025-04-02 |
Supabase UI Library | Drop-in components based on shadcn/ui & powered by Supabase | #4 | #9 | |
2025-03-26 |
Pulse | Search Cluster Monitoring & Maintenance, Redefined | #2 | #8 | |
2025-03-25 |
Inferless | Deploy any machine learning models in minutes | #1 | #4 | |
2025-03-03 |
Producta | Automate solving your Linear or Jira tickets | #4 | ||
2025-02-23 |
Flags SDK by Vercel | Free, open-source library for using feature flags in Next.js | #2 | ||
2025-02-19 |
Lingo.dev | Ship apps translated in every language, in minutes | #2 | #4 | #9 |
2025-01-31 |
Orate | The AI toolkit for speech | #5 | ||
2025-01-26 |
Tailwind Catalyst | A modern UI kit for React, by the creators of Tailwind CSS | #3 | ||
2025-01-23 |
Jolt AI | AI assistant for 100k to multi-million line codebases | #3 | ||
2025-01-23 |
Opengrep | The open source static code analysis engine | #5 | ||
2025-01-18 |
Grep by Vercel | Code search made fast | #2 | ||
2025-01-11 |
21st.dev | GitHub + Pinterest to make your AI websites look beautiful | #1 | #3 | #5 |
2024-12-18 |
Tempo | Visual Editor for React, powered by AI | #1 | #3 | #9 |
2024-12-05 |
Reflex Cloud | Build web apps in pure Python + deploy with a single command | #1 | #8 | |
2024-12-03 |
Supabase AI Assistant | Idea to Postgres database | #2 | #6 | |
2024-12-03 |
Trigger.dev Realtime API | Live updates in your app made easy | #4 | ||
2024-11-21 |
Lovable | The world's first AI Full Stack Engineer | #1 | #4 | #5 |
2024-11-10 |
Trench | Open source analytics infrastructure | #3 | ||
2024-10-30 |
bolt.new | Prompt, run, edit & deploy full-stack web apps | #1 | #2 | #9 |
2024-10-21 |
Trag | AI code review companion | #1 | #1 | #2 |
2024-10-11 |
Octomind QA Agent | AI-powered end-to-end testing | #1 | ||
2024-10-10 |
Latitude | The open-source prompt engineering platform | #2 | #8 | |
2024-10-09 |
Layouts.dev | A notebook for building interfaces with Tailwind & shadcn/UI | #2 | #6 | |
2024-09-25 |
Workflow Kit by Inngest | Open-source SDK to add Zapier-like workflows to your product | #5 | ||
2024-08-22 |
Helicone AI | Open-source LLM Observability for Developers | #1 | #2 | |
2024-08-08 |
Inkeep | AI search & support powered by your content | #3 | ||
2024-08-01 |
Not Diamond | The last chatbot you’ll ever need | #1 | ||
2024-06-23 |
UI Components by Auth0 | Reusable React components to build apps with Auth0 | #3 | ||
2024-06-13 |
Liveblocks 2.0 | Unlock collaboration in your product | #4 | ||
2024-06-12 |
MotherDuck | Now GA: the ducking simple analytics data warehouse | #5 | ||
2024-05-23 |
StarSearch by OpenSauced | AI Copilot, but for git history | #3 | ||
2024-04-26 |
Langfuse 2.0 | The open source LLM engineering platform | #1 | #8 | |
2024-04-23 |
Subframe | The best way to build UI, fast | #1 | #4 | |
2024-04-18 |
Pullpo.io | Complete code reviews in hours, not days, right from Slack | #2 | ||
2024-04-17 |
Dagster+ | Ship data pipelines with extraordinary velocity | #5 | ||
2024-04-15 |
Supabase | The Postgres developer platform is now generally available | #1 | #1 | #1 |
2024-03-27 |
Daytona | Dev environment manager that makes you 2x more productive | #2 | #6 | |
2024-03-16 |
Stacktape | 97 % of AWS capabilities, 3% complexity | #3 | ||
2024-02-26 |
Octomind | Find bugs before your users do with AI | #3 | #7 | |
2024-02-08 |
Retell AI | API that helps developers build human-like voice agents | #5 | ||
2024-01-25 |
Corbado | Passkey-first authentication for developers | #4 | ||
2023-12-19 |
Pieces Copilot | The AI coding sidekick that understands your workflow | #2 | ||
2023-11-15 |
OpenMeter | Usage metering for engineers | #2 | #8 | |
2023-11-02 |
Liveblocks Comments | Enable discussion in your product effortlessly | #5 | ||
2023-10-18 |
LastMile AI | AI developer platform for engineering teams | #2 | #4 | |
2023-10-17 |
Appwrite Cloud Beta | Build like a team of hundreds | #4 | ||
2023-10-11 |
OpenSauced | Optimize your Open Source project with deep insights | #5 | ||
2023-10-10 |
Frigade | Product onboarding platform for React and Next.js | #4 | ||
2023-10-09 |
Payload 2.0 | TypeScript headless CMS + app framework | #2 | ||
2023-09-28 |
Unrevealed | 100x your release process | #4 | ||
2023-09-19 |
Graphite | How the fastest developers ship code | #2 | #2 | #3 |
2023-09-12 |
Permit.io | Never build permissions again | #1 | #2 | #6 |
2023-09-08 |
GitStart | Code as a service | #1 | #6 | |
2023-08-20 |
Langfuse | Open source tracing and analytics for LLM applications | #1 | #9 | |
2023-08-10 |
AI SQL Editor by Supabase | Write SQL without knowing SQL | #1 | #6 | |
2023-06-23 |
Pieces for Developers | AI code snippet manager to streamline your workflow | #5 | ||
2023-06-08 |
Supabase Vector | The open source backend for AI applications | #5 | ||
2023-05-10 |
Raycast Pro | Unlock a new level productivity with AI, Cloud Sync and more | #1 | #4 | #9 |
2023-04-03 |
Lago | Open-source alternative to Stripe Billing and Chargebee | #1 | #1 | #1 |
2023-03-17 |
Warp AI | AI, fully integrated with your terminal | #2 | #6 | |
2023-02-23 |
Raycast AI | The magic of AI, right on your Mac | #5 | ||
2023-02-22 |
Typo | Better code, faster deployments, productive dev teams | #1 | #1 | #2 |
2023-02-08 |
Resend | Email for developers | #2 | #2 | #2 |
2022-09-21 |
Appwrite | 100% open source alternative for Firebase | #1 | #2 | #6 |
2022-07-20 |
Raycast for Teams | Speed up internal workflows | #4 | ||
2022-06-13 |
Mintlify | The documentation platform of tomorrow | #1 | #7 | |
2022-04-06 |
Warp | The terminal for the 21st century | #1 | #3 | #3 |
2022-02-24 |
Specify | Sync your Figma files with GitHub repositories in minutes | #2 | #9 | |
2021-11-30 |
Raycast API and Store | Supercharged productivity with shareable custom extensions | #1 | #4 | |
2021-11-05 |
Session Management by Clerk | Session management, done right | #5 | ||
2021-09-29 |
Railway | Config free deploys: bring your code, we'll handle the rest | #3 | ||
2021-07-29 |
Liveblocks | Build amazing real‑time collaborative products | #4 | ||
2021-04-22 |
Clerk | Authentication and user management for React and Next.js | #4 | ||
2021-02-17 |
Ray.so | Create beautiful images of your code | #3 | #2 | #4 |
- Want to add more examples? Awesome! See here: CONTRIBUTING.md
- If you enjoyed this list, please do repost this
Non-exhaustive list of alternative places to launch dev-first products, sorted by domain rating. Domain ratings by Ahrefs. More suggestions in this repository.
- Hacker News (ShowHN) (90)
- Uneed (67)
- DevHunt (58)
- launchweek.dev (29)
- early.tools (24)
Sorted by release date.
- Product Hunt Launch Guide by Product Hunt
- Did Appwrite do the ideal Product Hunt launch? (2025) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
- Lessons from 42 launches on Product Hunt (2024) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
- Automate a Product Hunt launch (2024) by @colegottdank (launched Helicone AI, ranked #1 POTD)
- How Daytona survived from Product Hunt (2024) by @nkko (launched Daytona, ranked #2 POTD)
- #1 Developer Tool of the Month (2023) by @tanya-rai (launched LastMile AI, ranked #2 POTD)
- How Permit.io got #1 Product of the Day (2023) by @danielbass37 (launched Permit.io, ranked #1 POTD)
- Lago's Product Hunt Launch Playbook (2023) by @anhtho-lago (launched Lago, ranked #1 POTM)
- Launching dev tools on Product Hunt (2022) by @ronakganatra (launched GraphCMS, ranked #5 POTD)
- Launching on Product Hunt on Scaling DevTools (2024) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
- Setting up the launchpad (2022) by @fmerian (launched Specify, ranked #2 POTD)
This repository is maintained by @fmerian:
- Launched twice on Product Hunt in 2022
- Contributed to launching 42+ dev-first products in 2023 and 2024
- Among the Top 3 most active users
- Brand Ambassador and 2022 Community Member of the Year (runner-up)
Follow me @fmerian on 𝕏 for more insights. DM for help and support.
Enjoy your launch day!