How we check
Every product here gets its own website asked, on a schedule, and we record what came back. That's the whole trick. Nothing on this site is a vote, a rating, or an opinion — and every number below says where it came from.
Last check recorded · this page recomputes hourly
Today's reading live
17,032 products watched
- 16,121
- Answered our check
- 149
- Not responding
- 762
- No answer yet
- 2,998
- Asked in last 24h
95% of the corpus
no DNS, or nothing listening
475 not yet asked · 287 asked, unclear
18% — the rest are on a slower rung
Cadence
How often we ask
Two different jobs get confused easily, so here they are apart. Collecting runs once a day: we pull every product every launch platform lists — not the top ones, every one. Probing — actually asking a product's own site whether it answers — runs on a ladder, because asking 17,032 sites every day would be rude to them and pointless for you.
- Never asked beforenext in line
A new arrival is probed before anything else.
- Looks like it's dying, or someone holds itevery 20 hours
If a site started failing, or a player's money is riding on it, a stale reading does real damage.
- Everything else, first 8 weeksevery 7 days
Young products change fast; this is where most of the corpus sits.
- Older than 8 weeksevery 30 days
Nothing has reached this rung yet — the corpus is younger than that.
That ladder is why 2,998 of 17,032 were asked in the last day, and not all of them. If you ever see us claim “every product, every day,” that's a sentence we owe you a correction on — we ran that claim for a while and the number above disproved it.
Verdicts
The three verdicts
A probe can end in exactly three states. The rule is deliberately one-sided: we only claim something is gone when we're certain.
Live
16,121The site answered our request.
That's all it proves — that something is still served at that address.
Not responding
149No DNS record at all, or nothing listening on it.
The only case where we're willing to say a product is gone.
We don't know
762Anything else — or we haven't asked yet.
A timeout, a bot wall, a 500. We say nothing rather than guess.
That third bucket matters more than it sounds. Free hosting goes to sleep and answers with an error while it wakes up. We used to call that death, and it wrongly buried healthy products.
And we should be exact about why we don't know. Of the 762 in that bucket, 475 are simply waiting in the queue — we haven't asked them yet. Only 287 were asked and gave an answer we couldn't read. Blaming the whole bucket on bot walls would have flattered us.
Sources
Where the products come from
We watch 12 launch platforms and pull every product they list, once a day. A product can appear on several — the counts below overlap.
- Product Hunt12,691
- PeerPush1,860
- TinyLaunch1,192
- Peerlist905
- Uneed401
- BetaList280
- OpenHunts244
- Fazier242
- MicroLaunch174
- Smol Launch79
- Devhunt76
- Tiny Startups55
We don't weight them. A product that topped a small board is on the same footing here as one that topped the biggest — the board it launched on tells you where a founder posted, not what the thing is worth.
Labels
How the filters are built
Every product carries labels — free, no sign-up, works offline, for musicians — and each one points back at the exact sentence in the product's own description that justified it. If the text doesn't say it, we don't claim it. There are 67,644 such labels right now, every one carrying its quote. live
We deliberately don't use the categories founders pick on launch platforms. We measured why:
| The product | Filed by its founder under |
|---|---|
| An audio mastering tool | Developer Tools |
| A weight-loss pill | Design |
Those categories describe how someone wanted to be found, not what the thing is. So we read the description instead.
Rankings
Why there are no rankings
of one day's Product Hunt cohort was gone two years later
So ranking by votes would tell you what was loud on one day, not what will be there next month. That's a one-off study, not a live number — we'll redo it when our own record is long enough to replace it.
Limits
What we can't tell you yet
How long things usually last
We've been watching for 19 days. That's long enough to say what's alive right now, and nowhere near long enough for survival rates. We're not going to dress that up.
Whether anyone is still working on it
We only see whether the site answers. A site can stay up long after everyone walked away. We're building toward this by watching whether the page itself changes over time.
Whether it's any good
We don't score quality, and we don't take a product's word for it. A label exists here only when the product's own description says so in a sentence we can quote.
Corrections
If we've marked something wrong, it's a bug and we want to know. The check runs again on its schedule, so a fix shows up within a day for anything on the fast rung, a week otherwise.