Should developer tools launch on Product Hunt?

Optional. It adds reach and a badge. Show HN, the repo, and DevHunt usually convert better per visitor for technical products.

What makes a good Show HN?

Something tryable, a dry title, an honest first comment, and a founder who stays in the thread.

Best for

Engineers do not want a hunter. They want something to try.

Show HN, GitHub, DevHunt, and Hugging Face outperform general consumer boards per visitor for APIs, SDKs, models, and infra — if you can take blunt feedback.

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A Show HN post is plain text, no scheduling, and no gallery. Most sink. The ones that connect can outdraw a #1 Product Hunt day and rank in Google for years.

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GitHub

For OSS and anything with a public repo, GitHub is the canonical artifact. Releases, README, and Topics matter. Trending cannot be booked. Assistants already cite repos.

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DevHunt

Open-source launch board. Voting requires GitHub, which kills fake rings. If you do not build for developers, skip it.

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Hugging Face

Spaces, models, and papers are how ML products get discovered. A README and a working Space beat any hunt badge. Irrelevant if you do not ship machine learning artifacts.

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Peerlist Launchpad

A week-long cycle on a network of developers and designers. Your work history launches with you, and timezone luck matters less than on daily boards.

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How to use this shortlist

Link a demo, docs, or repo — not a slogan homepage.
Do Show HN on a different day from Product Hunt.
Put the install in the README. GitHub is the product page; Show HN is the date.
DevHunt is quiet compared with 2024 and still worth the audience match.

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