r/ProductHunters
Discussion about Products on PH
Founded May 2016 · Public — anyone can post
Discussions about products on Product Hunt
Members
60,271
60K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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Comments per post
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Growth · 7d
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Growth · 30d
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Published rules
4
1 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Aug 26 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/ProductHunters
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| Promo | 36% | 44 |
| Question | 21% | 32 |
| Lessons / story | 18% | 24 |
| Discussion | 8% | 25 |
| Show & tell | 7% | 34 |
| Rant | 4% | 10 |
| News / link | 4% | 1 |
| Tool comparison | 1% | 2 |
Based on 72 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 11
- Top 10% score
- 78
- Text posts
- 68%
- Got no replies
- 21%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 08:00 UTC, Tue 10:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is welcome.
- Posts must be about Product Hunt: Posts must be related to products on Product Hunt and/or Product Hunt in general.
- Links must be from Product Hunt: No links to websites outside Product Hunt
- No Spam: No spamming your own content. No Unauthorized Promotion of Content, Other Sub-Reddits, or Referral codes. You are allowed to post a link to your product on Product Hunt. No selling upvotes or engagement services.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Offers specific, actionable feedback or suggestions.
- — Shares first-hand experience or data.
- — Asks clarifying questions to understand the product better.
- — Discloses affiliation or intent (e.g., 'I'm building something similar').
- — Provides encouragement and support to fellow founders.
- — Engages in a dialogue, not just a one-off comment.
What r/ProductHunters's rules say about promotion
1 of 4 published rules mentions promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No Spam
rule 4 of 4
No spamming your own content. No Unauthorized Promotion of Content, Other Sub-Reddits, or Referral codes. You are allowed to post a link to your product on Product Hunt. No selling upvotes or engagement services.
The other 3
- Be excellent to each other
- Posts must be about Product Hunt
- Links must be from Product Hunt
Read from r/ProductHunters’s published rules on Sep 13. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/ProductHunters — frequently asked
How many members does r/ProductHunters have?
r/ProductHunters has 60,271 members as of our most recent crawl on Sep 10. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/ProductHunters growing?
We don't have 30 days of snapshot history for r/ProductHunters yet, so we're not going to invent a growth number. We've been tracking it since Aug 26; the chart fills in as history accumulates.
How active is r/ProductHunters?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/ProductHunters yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/ProductHunters created?
r/ProductHunters was founded in May 2016 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/ProductHunters?
r/ProductHunters publishes 4 rules and 1 of them addresses promotion. The first, “No Spam”, says: No spamming your own content. No Unauthorized Promotion of Content, Other Sub-Reddits, or Referral codes. You are allowed to post a link to your product on Product Hunt. No selling upvotes or engagement services. Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/ProductHunters for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/ProductHunters into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/ProductHunters's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/ProductHunters's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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