Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Product Hunt
The 20 closest product discovery community alternatives to Product Hunt, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 6 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Product Hunt? The closest matches are Slashdot, Stack Overflow and Instructables. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
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- Query
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01 · Entity
About Product Hunt
Product Hunt producthunt.com
Wikidata: product discovery website
Summary by Claude
A website where makers launch and users discover, upvote and comment on new technology products such as apps, software, hardware and websites, with daily rankings of new launches.
- Who it’s for
- Tech enthusiasts, startup founders, early adopters
- Business model
- Advertising and sponsored launches
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Product Hunt’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Product Hunt
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Product Hunt, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read producthunt.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.926 - 02
website for professional and enthusiast programmers
Very close cos 0.923 - 03
Yours for the making
Instructables is a community for people who like to make things. Come explore, share, and make your next project with us!
Very close cos 0.920 - 04
DEV Community
A space to discuss and keep up software development and manage your software career
Very close cos 0.920 - 05
CNET: Product reviews, advice, how-tos and the latest news - CNET
Get full-length product reviews, the latest news, tech coverage, daily deals, and category deep dives from CNET experts worldwide.
Very close cos 0.922 - 06
MUO - Technology, Simplified.
MUO is your guide to modern tech. Learn how to make use of the tech and gadgets around you, and discover cool stuff on the internet.
Very close cos 0.921 - 07
Engadget | Technology News & Expert Reviews
Breaking news from the worlds of technology and entertainment, and expert reviews of the latest consumer tech products.
Very close cos 0.919 - 08
Boing Boing - A Directory of Mostly Wonderful Things
Boing Boing is the Web's favorite site devoted to technology, entertainment, and culture. Launched in 1989 as a print 'zine and still...
- Cloudflare
- Cloudflare DNS
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- Meta Business Suite
- Amazon Publisher Services
Very close cos 0.915 - 09
Publications / My feed / Habr
collaborative blog
Very close cos 0.915 - 10
XDA
The world’s best source for computing news, reviews, editorials guides, and more.
Very close cos 0.915 - 11
Bazaarvoice | The UGC Platform for Authentic Shopper Experiences
The leading UGC platform for authentic ratings, reviews, visual UGC, and review syndication that powers discovery, shopper trust, and higher ecommerce conversion.
Very close cos 0.912 - 12
Tom's Guide | Tech Product Reviews, Top Picks and How To
Tom's Guide upgrades your life by helping you decide what tech to buy, showing you how to get the most out of it and solving problems as they arise. Tom's Guide is here to help you....
Very close cos 0.915 - 13
Simple Page
food focused online social networking service
Very close cos 0.912 - 14
The Verge
The Verge is about technology and how it makes us feel. Founded in 2011, we offer our audience everything from breaking news to reviews to award-winning features and investigations, on our site, in video, and in podcasts.
Very close cos 0.915 - 15
American crowdfunding website
Very close cos 0.909 - 16
How-To Geek - We Explain Technology
We explain technology. Learn more with our articles, reviews, tips, and the best answers to your most pressing tech questions.
Very close cos 0.913 - 17
English-language computer magazine
Very close cos 0.912 - 18
Gizmodo | The Future Is Here
Dive into cutting-edge tech, reviews and the latest trends with the expert team at Gizmodo. Your ultimate source for all things tech.
Very close cos 0.912 - 19
Answers - The Most Trusted Place for Answering Life's Questions
Answers is the place to go to get the answers you need and to ask the questions you want
Very close cos 0.909 - 20
Lifehacker | Do everything better
Lifehacker is the ultimate authority on optimizing every aspect of your life. Do everything better.
Very close cos 0.910
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to producthunt.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Product Hunt uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Product Hunt is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631b8c7ef9dea4-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX alt1.aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailjet TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mail.intercom.io include:spf.mailjet.com include:_…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS tia.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=97bcfxU6IL0_6xbiIIpTrd8vYkjPWmywjQXbt4X9UW4
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=u33of40eu8wnfhryggfmshexmmsdjy
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Product Hunt adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- Meta Business Suite 11/20
- PHP · not on producthunt.com 9/20
- WordPress · not on producthunt.com 9/20
- OneTrust · not on producthunt.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Atlassian · not on producthunt.com 7/20
- Cloudflare DNS 7/20
- DocuSign · not on producthunt.com 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on producthunt.com 7/20
- Google Ad Manager · not on producthunt.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on producthunt.com 6/20
- Apple Business · not on producthunt.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on producthunt.com 6/20
- nginx · not on producthunt.com 6/20