Insights
Patterns, not just data
Computed across every launch we've tracked. These signals aren't on Product Hunt — they emerge when you analyze all of it together.
Category growth · week over week
Where momentum is building vs. cooling
Category saturation · last 7 days
How crowded each space is — high share = harder to stand out
Artificial Intelligence
56 launches · 11% weekly share
Productivity
48 launches · 9% weekly share
Developer Tools
29 launches · 6% weekly share
SaaS
25 launches · 5% weekly share
GitHub
19 launches · 4% weekly share
Marketing
17 launches · 3% weekly share
Alpha
16 launches · 3% weekly share
Tech
16 launches · 3% weekly share
Revenue × velocity
No launches with revenue data yet — sample will grow as the dataset accumulates.
Startups tracked
400
Aggregate MRR
$12.00M
30-day revenue
$28.65M
With launch data
0
Categories that monetize
Median MRR by category (min 10 startups). Use these to validate where the money actually flows.
Analytics
$18.3k
median MRR · 10 startups · $341.8k aggregate
Content Creation
$11.8k
median MRR · 18 startups · $3.76M aggregate
SaaS
$11.4k
median MRR · 30 startups · $770.5k aggregate
Education
$10.4k
median MRR · 18 startups · $593.0k aggregate
Artificial Intelligence
$10.3k
median MRR · 84 startups · $1.77M aggregate
Mobile Apps
$10.2k
median MRR · 21 startups · $334.6k aggregate
Marketing
$10.1k
median MRR · 30 startups · $514.2k aggregate
Developer Tools
$5.8k
median MRR · 15 startups · $130.3k aggregate
Hidden gems
High-MRR startups that never blew up on the launch leaderboard. Quiet money that bypassed the hype cycle.
Stan
Content Creation · US · est. 2023
$3.57M
MRR
Anonymous startup
—
$747.1k
MRR
Anonymous startup
—
$370.7k
MRR
Rezi
Artificial Intelligence · US · est. 2015
$293.8k
MRR
1Lookup
SaaS · US · est. 2022
$265.8k
MRR
Kibu
Education · US · est. 2022
$234.3k
MRR
Cometly
Analytics · US · est. 2020
$213.4k
MRR
Brand On Demand, Inc.
E-commerce · US · est. 2017
$192.8k
MRR
Anonymous startup
—
$186.3k
MRR
Anonymous startup
— · FR
$184.1k
MRR
DM Champ
Sales · NL · est. 2023
$177.8k
MRR
Anonymous startup
Health & Fitness · GB · est. 2023
$154.3k
MRR
Acquisition opportunities
Startups currently listed for sale, ranked by asking price.
Startup
MRR
Asking
Multiple
On PH
1Lookup
SaaS
$265.8k
$10.00M
2.0×
N/A
Project A
—
$65.4k
$5.32M
5.6×
N/A
POST BRIDGE
Social Media
$39.0k
$4.69M
9.9×
N/A
Anonymous startup
SaaS
$0
$3.20M
2.5×
N/A
Anonymous startup
—
$71.9k
$3.00M
1.9×
N/A
Launch Club
Marketing
$45.0k
$3.00M
4.2×
N/A
Plutio (Super Work AI)
Productivity
$22.8k
$3.00M
12.8×
N/A
Anonymous startup
SaaS
$45.5k
$2.15M
5.9×
N/A
Sleek
Design Tools
$25.0k
$2.10M
5.8×
N/A
LocalRank.so
Marketing
$48.7k
$1.79M
3.6×
N/A
Opportunity map · demand vs supply
Demand = median votes per launch · Supply = launch count (last 30d). Quadrants reveal underserved zones.
Underserved
high demand · low supply
14 categories
- Books3 launches · median 79 votes · 21.0% comment-to-vote
- Video3 launches · median 5 votes · 43.4% comment-to-vote
- Maker Tools3 launches · median 4 votes · 20.7% comment-to-vote
- API6 launches · median 3 votes · 51.4% comment-to-vote
- Privacy6 launches · median 3 votes · 40.4% comment-to-vote
- Business Intelligence3 launches · median 3 votes · 35.2% comment-to-vote
Few launches, strong engagement — opportunity zone.
Hot & crowded
high demand · high supply
9 categories
- Alpha16 launches · median 79 votes · 14.2% comment-to-vote
- Artificial Intelligence56 launches · median 3 votes · 36.1% comment-to-vote
- Developer Tools29 launches · median 3 votes · 32.2% comment-to-vote
- Productivity48 launches · median 3 votes · 39.9% comment-to-vote
- SaaS25 launches · median 3 votes · 27.5% comment-to-vote
- Design Tools9 launches · median 3 votes · 39.8% comment-to-vote
Strong demand but increasingly crowded — pick a wedge.
Saturated
low demand · high supply
8 categories
- Social Media14 launches · median 2 votes · 36.7% comment-to-vote
- Marketing17 launches · median 2 votes · 33.0% comment-to-vote
- iOS8 launches · median 2 votes · 36.2% comment-to-vote
- Finance7 launches · median 2 votes · 43.5% comment-to-vote
- Education14 launches · median 2 votes · 43.9% comment-to-vote
- Games7 launches · median 2 votes · 44.0% comment-to-vote
Many launches, fading engagement — late to the party.
Quiet niche
low demand · low supply
10 categories
- Security3 launches · median 2 votes · 17.2% comment-to-vote
- YouTube4 launches · median 2 votes · 43.1% comment-to-vote
- Advertising3 launches · median 2 votes · 35.7% comment-to-vote
- Online Learning3 launches · median 2 votes · 21.4% comment-to-vote
- Web33 launches · median 2 votes · 70.0% comment-to-vote
- Legal5 launches · median 2 votes · 55.0% comment-to-vote
Low activity on both sides — niche or dormant.
Best day to launch
60-day average votes per launch by day of week
Average votesLaunches
Tagline anatomy
Winners (top 20%) average 7.4 words. Losers (bottom 20%) average 7.2.
Tagline length vs votes
Words in winner taglines
- agents×2 · 113 avg
- models×2 · 65 avg
- turn×2 · 51 avg
- interviews×2 · 87 avg
- product×2 · 51 avg
- platform×2 · 50 avg
- network×2 · 74 avg
- local×2 · 40 avg
- data×2 · 37 avg
- stop×2 · 11 avg
Topic combinations that win
Pairs of topics that appear together on top-25% launches
| Topic A | Topic B | Co-occurrences | Avg votes (top 25%) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Artificial Intelligence | Productivity | 15 | 13 |
| Alpha | Artificial Intelligence | 9 | 79 |
| GitHub | Open Source | 9 | 19 |
| Artificial Intelligence | Developer Tools | 8 | 42 |
| Developer Tools | SaaS | 8 | 21 |
| Artificial Intelligence | GitHub | 8 | 13 |
| Developer Tools | GitHub | 7 | 23 |
| Developer Tools | Productivity | 7 | 3 |
| Artificial Intelligence | Tech | 7 | 2 |
| Artificial Intelligence | SaaS | 6 | 32 |
| Education | Productivity | 6 | 2 |
| Productivity | Tech | 6 | 3 |
Serial founder graph
Repeat builders sorted by reputation × launch volume
Anomaly feed · last 48h
Auto-detected signals that don't show up on the leaderboard