Directory profile

Product Hunt: how to submit, cost, DR and traffic

Product Hunt is a launch platform and maker community with about 3.7M visits a month and a Domain Rating of 91. Free. The product link is dofollow.

What Product Hunt is

Product Hunt is the best-known launch platform. Products compete for upvotes over a 24-hour day that starts at 12:01 a.m. Pacific time, and the top of the day gets most of the attention.

Checked on Product Hunt's own pages in October 2026.

Product Hunt at a glance

What a listing on Product Hunt gets you

Launching is free and takes about an hour to set up, but a good launch takes a couple of weeks of preparation and a day where you do nothing else. You get a permanent product page, comments from early users and, if you place well, a badge and a spike of traffic.

How to submit to Product Hunt

1. Search Product Hunt for your product first. If it's already listed, claim or update that listing instead of submitting again.
2. Open the submit page: www.producthunt.com/posts/new.
3. No account is needed to submit.
4. Fill in the form: product name, website, a short description written for this audience, category, logo and a screenshot or two.
5. Submissions are reviewed before they go live. Save the listing URL once it's public.

What our agent saw on Product Hunt's submit flow

• The flow starts and stays on producthunt.com/posts/new.
• We didn't reach the last screen, so later steps may ask for more.

Recorded by our submission agent on 3 October 2026. Directory flows change, so check the live page.

Things to know before you submit

• Waitlist launches get a fraction of the interest; launch when people can use the product.
• Weekdays bring more traffic and more competition; a small product can do better on a quieter weekend day.

Tips for Product Hunt

• Prepare the tagline, first comment and screenshots in advance (we have guides for each).
• Plan a two-week follow-up across other launch sites instead of treating it as one day.

Full walkthrough: our step-by-step Product Hunt guide.

Submit to Product Hunt with your AI agent

AgentLaunch is a launch kit you open in Claude Code, Codex or Cursor. Your agent submits your product to 300+ hand-checked directories, Product Hunt included, from your own browser, and tracks every listing. On Product Hunt specifically:

• It already knows Product Hunt's submit flow from the path we recorded (producthunt.com/posts/new).
• Product Hunt needs no account, so it goes straight to the form.
• It writes the listing copy for Product Hunt's audience (launch platform and maker community) instead of pasting the same description everywhere.
• When Product Hunt publishes the listing, it saves the URL and checks the dofollow link in your launch tracker.

How Product Hunt compares

• Traffic: #1 of 103 in its category, against a category median of 5K visits a month.
• Domain Rating: 91, against a category median of 51.
• Cost: 54% of directories in this category have a free route; Product Hunt is one of them.
• Links: 59% of this category give a dofollow product link; Product Hunt's is dofollow.
• Accounts: 65% need no account; Product Hunt doesn't either.

Product Hunt alternatives

Other directories in the same category (launch platform and maker community), by traffic:

FAQ

Terms used here: Launch platform · Domain Rating · Directory traffic · Dofollow link · Free listing. Data across all 352 directories: launch directory statistics 2026.

Traffic and Domain Rating are third-party estimates. Prices, link types and rules change, so check Product Hunt's own page before paying.