Product Hunt is a daily leaderboard where makers launch new products and the community votes on what they find interesting. It started in 2013 as a side project and has since become a standard launch platform for apps, developer tools, AI services, and hardware. The top products each day get visibility that can meaningfully affect a launch. Comments often include feedback from other founders and early adopters.

For developers, it's a good place to discover tools before they become widely known. For founders, it's a launch platform and a way to study how other people present their work. The quality varies, but that's part of the point — you see what's being built right now, not what has already succeeded. The site also publishes newsletters and runs an annual Golden Kitty Awards.