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Submit to Product Hunt
The best-known daily launch leaderboard for new tech products, where makers post a product and the community upvotes and comments over a 24-hour cycle. Browsed by early adopters, founders, investors and tech press. A launch gets you a permanent product page, reviews, and a shot at daily/weekly rankings.
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Product Hunt at a glance
- Pricing
- Free
- Launch guide FAQ says Product Hunt is 100% free to use; advertising is sold separately.
- Link type
- UGC (nofollow)
- Listing https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion 'Visit website' button has rel="noreferrer noopener ugc" (checked 2026-09-23)
- Review
- Automatic
- Link back required
- No
- Account required
- Yes
- Domain Rating
- DR91
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs, checked Sep 24, 2026. A score of the whole site’s backlinks, not a Google metric.
- Tranco rank
- #4,480
- Research top-sites ranking. Lower is more popular.
- Who browses it
- Early adopters, makers, tech investors and journalists hunting for new products
- Last checked
How to submit to Product Hunt
Open the Product Hunt submission page
This is the page makers use to add a product.
Create an account
Product Hunt asks you to sign up before you can submit.
Have your assets ready
Name, tagline, description, logo and screenshots. The checklist below covers what to prepare so you can fill the form in one go.
Fill in the form carefully
Pick the most specific category the form offers and write the description for the people who browse Product Hunt (Early adopters, makers, tech investors and journalists hunting for new products), not for search engines.
Check your listing
Listings go live without review. Open yours, check the details and check the link points to the right page.
Tips for Product Hunt
- Launch from a personal maker account; the FAQ states company accounts are prohibited.
- Launch days reset at 12:01 am Pacific, so line up your supporters for the full 24-hour window.
- You can relaunch when you ship a significant new iteration, so save big updates for a second launch.
- Read the community guidelines first; accounts that look like vote-soliciting get flagged as spammers.
From Product Hunt’s own guidelines and pages, in our words.
What to prepare
The basics every directory asks for, plus what matters most for product launch platforms.
- Product name and a one-line tagline (about 60 characters)
- A short description (1–2 sentences) and a longer one (a short paragraph)
- Square logo, at least 256×256 px, PNG or SVG
- 2–3 screenshots at a consistent size
- The exact page you want the link to point to
- Pricing model (free, freemium or paid) and a contact email
- A chosen launch date, with time blocked to reply to comments
- A maker comment: why you built it and what feedback you want
- Gallery images or a short demo video
- An optional launch-day offer for that platform’s users
Is Product Hunt worth it?
Good for discovery, not link equity
Links from Product Hunt listings carry rel="ugc", so they pass little or no ranking value. Submit if its audience matches yours: the value is visitors and being findable where people browse.
- Domain Rating by Ahrefs: 91 (top tier). That's the strength of links to the whole site, not a promise about what your listing passes on.
- Tranco rank #4,480: one of the ~10,000 most visited sites on the web.
- Listings are published without human review.
- Free to list, so the only cost is your time.
This verdict is worked out from the facts above with fixed rules (link type, review, price, Domain Rating by Ahrefs, Tranco rank), not paid for. The directory has no say in it.
Questions about Product Hunt
Is Product Hunt free?
Yes. Listing on Product Hunt is free. Pricing details: Launch guide FAQ says Product Hunt is 100% free to use; advertising is sold separately. We checked on Sep 23, 2026.
Does Product Hunt give a dofollow link?
No. Listing links on Product Hunt are marked rel="ugc", which Google treats like nofollow. Evidence: Listing https://www.producthunt.com/products/notion 'Visit website' button has rel="noreferrer noopener ugc" (checked 2026-09-23).
How do I submit to Product Hunt?
Submit at https://www.producthunt.com/launch. You need an account first. Listings go live without human review. Tip: Launch from a personal maker account; the FAQ states company accounts are prohibited.
Alternatives to Product Hunt
All product launch platformsFree · DR 91 · Tranco #2,207
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Free + paid options · DR 83 · Tranco #224,088
Paid · DR 56 · Tranco #252,067
Free + paid options · DR 76 · Tranco #363,756
Free + paid options · DR 75 · Tranco #536,912
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