Product Hunt Launches Tracker

What does Product Hunt Launches Tracker do?

Product Hunt Launches Tracker scrapes the Product Hunt daily leaderboard and returns structured data on every product launch — including name, tagline, vote count, comment count, maker details, topics, and direct links — for any day up to 30 days in the past. It extracts data directly from the Next.js __NEXT_DATA__ JSON embedded in every server-rendered page, making it fast, reliable, and immune to UI redesigns that break CSS-selector scrapers. No API key or authentication required.

Why use Product Hunt Launches Tracker?

• Competitive intelligence on demand — monitor which products launch in your niche every day and filter by minimum votes to see only the launches that resonated with the community, without manually browsing the leaderboard.
• Historical launch archive — retrieve leaderboard data for any of the past 30 days in one call, enabling trend analysis, weekend vs weekday comparison, or retroactive research on a competitor's launch day.
• Pay-per-product pricing — at $0.002 per product, you pay only for the records you actually fetch. A 20-product filtered run costs $0.04; a full 200-product archive costs $0.40.
• Structured data, ready for pipelines — every record includes votes, comments, daily_rank, topics, maker_names, website, and timestamps as clean JSON fields, so results plug directly into Airtable, BigQuery, Notion, or a webhook without parsing.
• Vote threshold filtering — set minVotes to skip low-signal launches and surface only products that hit a meaningful upvote threshold, reducing noise in downstream analysis or alert systems.

How to use Product Hunt Launches Tracker

1. Go to the Apify Store and open Product Hunt Launches Tracker.
2. Click Try for free and open the Input tab.
3. Set daysAgo to 0 for today's launches, or 1–30 for historical days.
4. Set maxResults (default 50) and optionally minVotes to filter low-vote products.
5. Click Start. The actor fetches and parses the leaderboard page in seconds.
6. Download the dataset as JSON or CSV, or connect an Integration webhook to push results to Slack, Airtable, or your app.

Input

Field	Type	Default	Description
daysAgo	integer	0	Days back from today: 0 = today, 1 = yesterday, max 30
maxResults	integer	50	Maximum number of products to return (1–200)
minVotes	integer	0	Only return products with at least this many upvotes

Output

[
  {
    "id": "582741",
    "name": "Notion AI Writer",
    "tagline": "Write anything 10x faster with your second brain",
    "slug": "notion-ai-writer",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/notion-ai-writer",
    "website": "https://notion.so/product/ai",
    "votes": 1284,
    "comments": 147,
    "daily_rank": 1,
    "topics": ["Productivity", "Artificial Intelligence", "Writing"],
    "maker_names": ["Ivan Zhao", "Akshay Kothari"],
    "featured_date": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2026-09-02T07:00:00Z",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-02T14:22:10Z"
  },
  {
    "id": "582803",
    "name": "ScreenStudio 3.0",
    "tagline": "Beautiful screen recordings for developers",
    "slug": "screenstudio-3-0",
    "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/screenstudio-3-0",
    "website": "https://screenstudio.lemonsqueezy.com",
    "votes": 847,
    "comments": 93,
    "daily_rank": 2,
    "topics": ["Developer Tools", "Design", "Video"],
    "maker_names": ["Paul Melnikow"],
    "featured_date": "2026-09-02T00:00:00Z",
    "created_at": "2026-09-02T07:00:00Z",
    "fetched_at": "2026-09-02T14:22:10Z"
  }
]

Data fields

Field	Description
id	Product Hunt internal product ID
name	Product name as listed on Product Hunt
tagline	Short product description (the launch tagline)
slug	URL slug used in the Product Hunt post URL
url	Direct link to the Product Hunt post page
website	Product's external website URL
votes	Upvote count at time of fetch (point-in-time snapshot)
comments	Comment count at time of fetch
daily_rank	Leaderboard position for the given day (1 = top product)
topics	Array of topic/category tags assigned to the product
maker_names	Array of maker display names listed on the post
featured_date	UTC date when the product was featured on the leaderboard
created_at	UTC timestamp when the product was submitted to Product Hunt
fetched_at	UTC timestamp when the actor fetched this record

Cost estimation

Scenario	Products fetched	Cost
Top 10 launches today	~10 products	$0.02
Full daily leaderboard (50 products)	~50 products	$0.10
7-day archive (50 products/day)	~350 products	$0.70

Pricing is $0.002 per product fetched (Pay-Per-Event). The minVotes filter reduces the number of billed events — only products that pass the filter and are saved to the dataset are charged.

FAQ

How current is the data for today's launches? Product Hunt rankings shift throughout the day as votes accumulate. Data is a point-in-time snapshot taken when the actor runs. For final daily rankings, run the actor after midnight UTC, when voting for that day has closed and the leaderboard position is locked.

Why does the actor sometimes return fewer products than maxResults? Product Hunt's leaderboard for a given day may contain fewer products than your maxResults cap, especially for recent days where not all daily slots have been filled yet. Additionally, if you set a minVotes threshold, products below that threshold are excluded before counting toward the result limit.

Can I track a specific product category or topic? The actor returns the full leaderboard for the day including all topics. Post-processing by topics field is the simplest approach — filter the JSON output for records where topics includes your category of interest (e.g., "Artificial Intelligence" or "Developer Tools"). A future version may add server-side topic filtering.

Disclaimer: This actor scrapes publicly available data from Product Hunt's website. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or officially connected to Product Hunt Inc. Vote counts and rankings are point-in-time snapshots and may not reflect final daily rankings for in-progress launch days. Use of this data is subject to Product Hunt's Terms of Service. This actor is provided for informational and research purposes only.

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