Official PH help doc on accounts, launches, and rules.
Product Hunt's own "Getting Started" help doc. Read it once end-to-end before your first launch.
The rules that trip people up most:
• You cannot launch the same product twice within 6 months. Re-launches are allowed after that window, and only if you have a substantive update.
• You cannot ask for upvotes anywhere — Twitter, Slack, email, or the comment thread itself. PH throttles launches caught doing this.
• The hunter is not required to be a well-known Hunter™. Anyone with an account can submit a product. The maker gets the notification either way.
• Products are displayed by "upvote velocity" (upvotes over time), not raw upvote count. Steady momentum beats a single upvote spike.
• Reviews left on launch day count toward your rating but do not affect ranking.
Bookmark the help center. When you have a weird edge case at 3am on launch day, this is the source of truth — not a random Twitter thread.Read more →