Where you launch decides more than when.
Data through · How we count
We read every launch day on several platforms after it closes and keep what it held — the size of the field and what each placement cost. No estimates, no survey, no round numbers from somebody's blog. It is the only honest way to answer the question every founder skips: is this the right place to launch at all?
What we measure, every day
Every launch day, on several launch platforms, read after it has closed and kept: how many products entered, what the day's winner scored, what each placement cost, and where the field thins out. Not a survey, not an estimate, not a round number from a blog post — the day as it actually happened. One more day is added every day.
What a top-ten placement cost, by board
Median over the closed days we measured in the last 180 days — the same days the launch planner counts. Product Hunt has no rank-ten count in our data, so its column shows what it took to be featured instead.
| Board | Launches / day | Top ten from | Days measured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | 711 | 122 upvotes* | 151 |
| Uneed | 24 | 4 upvotes | 149 |
| Show HN | 123 | 9 upvotes | 149 |
| Fazier | 15 | 27 upvotes | 148 |
| SmolHunt | 2 | not measured | 14 |
* Product Hunt: what it took to be featured.
Does a quiet day help on Product Hunt?
Tuesday is the busiest weekday on file, with about 2.3× the launches of Sunday. The bar to be featured barely moves between the two — a quieter day buys less than the usual advice suggests. Counted over 151 days. Every weekday, side by side.
Your number against all of it
The launch planner takes the upvotes you can bring and runs them against every day on file: each board, each placement, the exact gap, the easiest and the hardest day. Free, no account.
Open the launch plannerWhy it matters where you launch
Most launch advice is written as though there were one place to launch and one way to do it. There is not. The platforms differ by more than an order of magnitude in how many products they take a day and in what a visible placement costs — and the reach a founder can bring on the day decides which of those rooms is winnable.
That is a question with a measured answer, and it is the one the launch planner settles: not "how do I launch better", but where your reach is actually enough to be seen. Almost nobody asks it, because almost nobody has counted.
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