Product Hubs & Launch Pages

A whole new way to learn about a product’s journeyHey Product Hunt!

We are so excited to announce a big update to Product Hunt today (so meta). We think it’s a big step forward toward our vision for this platform and community.

First, a little context.

We've been talking with the community a LOT over the past year and a half. Interviews, surveys, polls, and data analysis all to answer one question: how can we make Product Hunt better for all of you.

A few things came up again and again: 1. You want a single source of truth to follow the full history of a product 2. When you're researching a tool, you need an easy way to see all the reviews and rating info for a product consolidated in one place 3. As a maker, you want an easy way to reactivate the audience that you've found on Product Hunt, not just for major feature releases, but for all along a product's lifecycle (eg. managing waitlists and betas, doing early product validation, and of course, announcing updates big and small).

We put our heads together and came up with something that we think is really going to help:

⚡️Product Hubs ⚡️ Product Hubs are your single source of truth, the place to find everything about a product’s journey, like: 🚀 All of a product’s historical launches ⭐ Reviews throughout the lifespan of the product 🏆 Awards and accolades throughout Product Hunt history 📰 Related news about the product 👥 The awesome makers who have worked on the product over time 👩🏻‍💻 Active job listings 💭 and lots more to come...

You can even "follow" a Hub to make sure you never miss an update to your favorite products. For makers, these updates give you the tools to kickstart your community and bring them along for the ride, from the first time you introduce a product, to each iteration thereafter. You can read more about how Product Hubs work in the changelog.

And because Product Hubs are now the place to roll up all of that canonical information, we have also been able to streamline our Launch Pages to focus on what's most important: the product, the discussion with the makers, and the key launch day performance stats. After launch day, this page will be saved to the product hub as part of its official history -- sort of like a time capsule.

We hope this new change will set the stage for even more ways for our community and makers to support and rally around their favorite products -- this is just the beginning. As you might imagine the change has required a ton of work behind the scenes since it touches virtually every part of the product, so please let us know your thoughts, report any issues, and help us make this even better together.

The team is hanging out in the comments below to respond to questions. Let's do this 💪

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