# Product Hunt API: List daily launches

> Lists featured launches in Product Hunt's daily leaderboard order for a given US Pacific day, with each product's website when its public page shows one.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Product Hunt.

- Page: https://fous.com/methods/producthunt.com/list-launches
- Method: `producthunt.com/list_launches`, version 1
- Website: producthunt.com
- Returns: rank, product name, tagline, upvotes, comments, topics, Product Hunt link, product website
- Effect: read (it gets data and changes nothing)
- Sign-in: none needed
- Cost: 1 credit per completed run (1¢ with pay as you go); failed runs are free
- Verified: Nov 2, 2026

## Inputs

| Field | Type | Required | In the run below | Description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| `date` | string | no | `"2026-09-25"` | Launch date in US Pacific time, for example 2026-09-25. Defaults to today. |
| `max_results` | integer | no | `3` | Maximum number of ranked launches to return, for example 20. Defaults to 20. Default 20. |

## Output

From a run on Oct 31, 2026. Its input:

```json
{
  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "max_results": 3
}
```

Its output:

```json
{
  "date": "2026-09-25",
  "launches": [
    {
      "rank": 1,
      "topics": [
        "Developer Tools",
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Games"
      ],
      "tagline": "A real-time world model you can explore and change",
      "upvotes": 379,
      "product_name": "PixVerse R2",
      "comment_count": 48,
      "product_hunt_link": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/pixverse-r2",
      "product_website_link": "https://world.pixverse.video/home/?ref=producthunt"
    },
    {
      "rank": 2,
      "topics": [
        "Venture Capital",
        "Artificial Intelligence",
        "Fundraising"
      ],
      "tagline": "AI agent-to-agent VC fundraising & scouting network",
      "upvotes": 294,
      "product_name": "Bleetz Network",
      "comment_count": 71,
      "product_hunt_link": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/bleetz-network",
      "product_website_link": "https://bleetz.network/?ref=producthunt"
    },
    {
      "rank": 3,
      "topics": [
        "Marketing",
        "Developer Tools",
        "Artificial Intelligence"
      ],
      "tagline": "Run developer marketing like an engineering system",
      "upvotes": 202,
      "product_name": "Quiver GTM",
      "comment_count": 34,
      "product_hunt_link": "https://www.producthunt.com/products/quiver-gtm",
      "product_website_link": "https://www.quivergtm.dev/?ref=producthunt"
    }
  ]
}
```

## Run it

From code, with a Fous API key in `FOUS_API_KEY`; the answer's `data` holds the output:

```bash
curl https://api.fous.com/v1/runs \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $FOUS_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"method":"producthunt.com/list_launches","input":{"date":"2026-09-25","max_results":3}}'
```

From an AI agent connected to the Fous MCP server: its `run` with the same method and input. To connect one, give it `set up https://fous.com/SKILL.md`.

## Ask your agent

- What were the top 10 launches on Product Hunt on 2025-03-14, with upvote counts and their websites?
- Show me today's leaderboard of new tech product launches — rank, tagline, and number of comments for each.
- I need the 30 highest-ranked featured products from November 2, 2024, including topics and links to each product's homepage.
- Pull yesterday's Product Hunt daily ranking, top 5 only, so I can see which startups got the most votes.
- List the featured launches for 2025-07-08 in leaderboard order with their taglines and official site URLs, up to 50.

## Input schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Launch date in US Pacific time, for example 2026-09-25. Defaults to today."
    },
    "max_results": {
      "type": "integer",
      "default": 20,
      "maximum": 50,
      "minimum": 1,
      "description": "Maximum number of ranked launches to return, for example 20. Defaults to 20."
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## Output schema

```json
{
  "type": "object",
  "required": [
    "date",
    "launches"
  ],
  "properties": {
    "date": {
      "type": "string",
      "format": "date",
      "description": "Leaderboard date in US Pacific time."
    },
    "launches": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "required": [
          "rank",
          "product_name",
          "tagline",
          "upvotes",
          "comment_count",
          "topics",
          "product_hunt_link",
          "product_website_link"
        ],
        "properties": {
          "rank": {
            "type": "integer"
          },
          "topics": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "tagline": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "upvotes": {
            "type": [
              "integer",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "product_name": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "comment_count": {
            "type": [
              "integer",
              "null"
            ]
          },
          "product_hunt_link": {
            "type": "string",
            "format": "uri"
          },
          "product_website_link": {
            "type": [
              "string",
              "null"
            ],
            "description": "Product website when shown on its public page."
          }
        },
        "additionalProperties": false
      }
    }
  },
  "additionalProperties": false
}
```

## See more

- [Product Hunt API: Search products](https://fous.com/methods/producthunt.com/search-products.md): Finds Product Hunt products by name or by what they do, in Product Hunt search order, with tagline, review rating, review count, followers and topics. Ratings are null for products without reviews.
- [Product Hunt API: Get product](https://fous.com/methods/producthunt.com/get-product.md): Gets a Product Hunt product profile by product name or Product Hunt link: tagline, description, website, topics, review rating, followers, the five most recent reviews, recent launches with day rank and upvotes, and alternatives.
- [Techmeme API: List top stories](https://fous.com/methods/techmeme.com/list-top-stories.md): Lists Techmeme's leading stories in page order, with each story's original article and linked coverage. Uses the live front page, or the evening archive for a given date.
- [Hacker News API: List stories](https://fous.com/methods/news.ycombinator.com/list-front-page.md): Lists current Hacker News stories in rank order from the top, newest, best, Ask HN, Show HN or jobs list.
- [Urban Dictionary API: List words of the day](https://fous.com/methods/urbandictionary.com/list-words-of-the-day.md): Lists Urban Dictionary's Words of the Day, newest first. Each word comes with its featured date, definition, example, votes and definition link.
- [Steam API: List top sellers](https://fous.com/methods/store.steampowered.com/list-top-sellers.md): Lists Steam's top-selling, discounted, or new and trending games in store order, with prices for a chosen country, review summaries and release dates.
- [DefiLlama API: List top blockchains by TVL](https://fous.com/methods/defillama.com/list-top-blockchains.md): Lists blockchains ranked by the total value locked in their DeFi apps on DefiLlama, with one-day and seven-day TVL changes, DeFi project counts and chain token symbols.
- [Billboard API: Get chart](https://fous.com/methods/billboard.com/get-chart.md): Gets the ranked entries and chart history for a Billboard chart. It returns the latest published week, or the week that contains a given date. A date between published weeks selects the next published week.
- [All Product Hunt methods](https://fous.com/methods/producthunt.com.md)
