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Tactics·Sep 30, 2026

Product Hunt top-ranked launches average 0.146 comments per vote

Tactics · Reddit · stat: 0.146 LaunchPact founder analyzes 10,012 featured Product Hunt posts to find that rank 1 launches yield a median 0.146 comments per vote, compared to just 0.050 for launches…

Tactics · Reddit · stat: 0.146

LaunchPact founder analyzes 10,012 featured Product Hunt posts to find that rank 1 launches yield a median 0.146 comments per vote, compared to just 0.050 for launches ranking 21st or worse. The dataset, spanning September 2024 to September 2026, shows a strong correlation between votes and comments at 0.771.

Product Hunt's algorithm increasingly prioritizes conversation depth over simple upvote counts Launching founders must prioritize driving active Q&A threads over raw upvotes to secure a top-five Product Hunt finish.

Source

Product Hunt comments per vote by launch rankMedian comments per voteProduct Hunt rank bandRank 10.146Ranks 2 to 50.114Ranks 6 to 100.094Ranks 11 to 200.076Rank 21 or worse0.050

LaunchPact analysis of 10,012 Product Hunt posts

Per a LaunchPact analysis of 10,012 featured posts shared on Reddit.

Top-ranked launches generate nearly three times more comments per vote than lower-ranked ones, highlighting the intense engagement concentration at the very top.

Sources · how we verified
  1. https://www.reddit.com/r/indiehackers/comments/1wrdrz2/rank_1_on_product_hunt_0146_comments_per_vote/ ↗

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