Product Hunt launch trends
How many products launch on Product Hunt, how many get featured, and how featured launches perform, from three years of daily data. Updated daily.
21,436 featured launches from Oct 1, 2023 to Oct 9, 2026, plus the total launch count for each of 1,105 days. Days follow Pacific time, like Product Hunt.
Launch volume and featured launches
Average launches per day in each month, so weeks, months and quarters read on the same scale. All launches and featured launches are on separate charts because their scales differ about 25-fold.
All launches per day
Featured launches per day
Featured share of all launches, %
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| Month | Days | All launches per day | Featured per day | Featured % |
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Do busy days get more featured launches?
Each dot is one day: total launches that day against how many were featured. If the cloud is flat, featuring works like a fixed daily quota and the featured share falls as volume rises.
The weekly cycle
Average launches per weekday in the chosen period, split into featured and not featured. Featured launches are a thin slice, so the table and tooltips give their exact numbers. Compare weeks, not single days, across years.
Show the weekday numbers
| Weekday | All launches | Featured | Featured % |
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How each weekday is spread
Each dot is one day in the chosen period, coloured by year. The box spans the middle half of the days (25th to 75th percentile) and the black line is the median. Launch volume grew several-fold over these years, so raw counts mostly show growth; the default measure compares each day with the average day of its own Monday-to-Sunday week (100 = an average day that week), which keeps only the weekly pattern.
| Weekday | Days | Mean | Median | Mode | Min | 25th pct | 75th pct | Max |
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Show every day
| Date | Weekday | All launches | Featured | Featured % | vs week avg | #1 upvotes | Lowest featured upvotes |
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Upvotes are blank for days less than 8 days old; "vs week avg" is blank outside complete weeks.
Upvotes of featured launches
For each day: the #1 launch, the median featured launch, and the lowest-voted featured launch. Each line is the typical (median) day of the month. Only days at least 8 days old are used, because votes keep coming in for about a week. These are final counts: launches collect votes both before and after being featured, so the lowest line is the fewest votes a featured launch ended up with, not the number it needed to get featured.
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| Month | Days | #1 launch | Median | Lowest featured |
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Most common topics among featured launches
Share of each month's featured launches tagged with the topic, for the 6 most common topics overall. A launch can have several topics. Weekly shares rest on about 200 launches each, so they are noisy.
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| Month | Artificial Intelligence | Productivity | Developer Tools | SaaS | GitHub | Marketing | Featured launches |
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Where featured products live
From each launch's website link. Resolved so far for 21,431 of 21,436 launches.
Domain ending of the product's own site, %
Launches linking to a platform instead, %
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| Month | .com (own site) | .ai (own site) | .io (own site) | Other (own site) | App stores | GitHub | Chrome Web Store | Resolved links |
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Data from the Product Hunt API, collected daily. Only featured launches are stored individually; the total launch count comes from the API's count for each day. Updated Oct 9, 2026.