The best day to launch on Product Hunt – from 144 measured launch days
The usual advice is Tuesday to Thursday, right after midnight Pacific time. What decides your placement is the competition on the day: how many launches enter it and what it took to be seen. We read every Product Hunt day after it closes and count exactly that. Below is the median for each weekday over the last 180 days, updated every day.
Product Hunt, weekday by weekday
Median of each weekday’s measured days in the last 180 days, Product Hunt’s own (Pacific) calendar day.
| Weekday | Launches | Day’s #1 | Featured floor | Days measured |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monday | 673 | 458 | 126 | 21 |
| Tuesday | 1,082 | 531 | 122 | 20 |
| Wednesday | 862 | 500 | 127 | 20 |
| Thursday | 758 | 476 | 125 | 20 |
| Friday | 645 | 466 | 123 | 21 |
| Saturday | 551 | 348 | 106 | 21 |
| Sunday | 471 | 395 | 121 | 21 |
Featured floor: the lowest score among the launches that were featured that day. Product Hunt has no rank-five or rank-ten count in our data, so those columns are left out rather than estimated.
What the weekday changes
The field: Tuesday is the busiest weekday with 1,082 launches on a median day, Sunday the quietest with 471. That gap is larger than the day-to-day noise — the crowd really does change with the weekday.
The featured floor: lowest on Saturday at 106 upvotes, highest on Wednesday at 127. That difference is inside the day-to-day noise: on our numbers no weekday is reliably easier to be featured on. Pick the day that suits your audience.
“Larger than the noise” has a fixed meaning here: the gap between the highest and the lowest weekday median is more than twice the median absolute deviation across all 144 days. Any table of seven medians has a lowest one; this test says whether it means anything.
Same question for the other boards
- Uneed: busiest on Wednesday (27 launches), quietest on Sunday (17); inside the noise, over 142 days.
- Show HN: busiest on Tuesday (157 launches), quietest on Saturday (82); larger than the noise, over 142 days.
- Fazier: busiest on Monday (21 launches), quietest on Sunday (9); larger than the noise, over 141 days.
- SmolHunt: 10 measured days — too few per weekday for a verdict yet.
Launches per day, median per weekday, last 180 days. What a top-ten place cost on each board is on Product Hunt alternatives, measured.
Enter the upvotes you can bring
The launch planner runs your number against every measured day on every board and shows where it would have been enough — and how often. Free, no account.
Open the launch plannerEvery figure here is a median over the stated window, never a mean. Product Hunt publishes no threshold; featuring is an editorial decision, so the featured floor is an observed number, not a rule. More on that: how many upvotes it takes to get featured.
Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know before you launch.
What is the best day to launch on Product Hunt?
Over the last 180 days (144 measured days), the featured floor was lowest on Saturday at 106 upvotes and highest on Wednesday at 127 (medians). That difference is inside the day-to-day noise, so no weekday is reliably easier; pick the day that suits your audience.
Is it easier to get featured on Product Hunt at the weekend?
Median featured floor over the last 180 days: Saturday 106, Sunday 121 upvotes, against 127 on Wednesday, the highest weekday. The weekday difference is inside the day-to-day noise, so the weekend is not reliably easier.
Does Product Hunt publish how many upvotes you need to be featured?
No. Featuring is an editorial decision and Product Hunt publishes no threshold. What we publish is an observed floor: the lowest score among the launches that were featured on each measured day, as a median. Reaching it does not guarantee being featured.