OSS AI coding assistant Kilo Code is launching today. This is their 3rd launch on Product Hunt.
Last year, they crushed it: Two launches, ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day -- among the best developer tools launched in 2025 in my opinion. No pressure.
Today, they're launching Kilo Code Reviewer -- AI-powered code review agents that understand your codebase and catch bugs before merging.
I'm experimenting with something new, live blogging the launch for the next 24 hours.
Let's go.
12:01:AM:PST -- going live
Step 1: getting featured. Check!
For the first 4 hours of the day, Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early." -- Source
Here's the direct link: Kilo Code on Product Hunt
01:01:AM:PST -- new milestone: 100 upvotes
Product Hunt is a great place for developer tools to launch -- a place where many dev-first, open-source products like Kilo launched successfully:
- Supabase (16 launches, 20 awards),
- Langfuse (4 launches, 5 awards), or
- Metabase (3 launches, 2 awards) for example.
02:57:AM:PST -- new milestone: 150 upvotes
Product Hunt helps raise awareness, get feedback, and collect testimonials — the type of materials you can reuse later on for marketing purposes.
Take this comment for instance:
As a data engineer, I’ve been using Kilo Code reviewer and it’s surprisingly data aware, not just code aware. It helps me catch pipeline changes that would only break dashboards later.
-- Pedro Heyerdahl on Product Hunt
04:01:AM:PST -- current status: #1 Product of the Day
Kilo Code is currently #1 Product of the Day, with 30 comments and 199 points.
07:00:AM:PST -- new milestone: 331 upvotes
When Kilo first launched on Product Hunt a year ago, they got 330 points. They just surpassed it.
Product Hunt pays off in the long term. Launch, and keep launching.
Join the launch: Kilo Code on Product Hunt
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