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Alex Spinov
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Track Product Hunt Launches for Competitive Intelligence

Product Hunt launches get 10,000+ visitors on launch day. Tracking these launches tells you:

  • What products are trending in your space
  • How competitors position themselves
  • What features resonate with early adopters
  • Which categories get the most engagement

What Product Hunt Data Contains

Each launch includes: name, tagline, description, upvotes, comments, makers, topics, website URL.

The aggregate data reveals: which niches are saturated, which are underserved, what positioning works (taglines that get upvotes).

Extract and Analyze

I built a Product Hunt Scraper that extracts launch data as structured JSON.

Combine with market research data from MCP Market Research Server for complete competitive intelligence:

  • Product Hunt data → what's launching
  • Market research → how big the market is
  • Reddit/HN data → what users actually think

All 77 tools: GitHub

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