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About GitHub Sponsors on Product Hunt
“Get paid to build what you love on GitHub”
GitHub Sponsors launched on Product Hunt on May 23rd, 2019 and earned 490 upvotes and 27 comments, earning #2 Product of the Day. Connect with the community that depends on your work. Receive recurring funds to build our shared digital infrastructure.
On the analytics side, GitHub Sponsors competes within Developer Tools — topics that collectively have 511k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how GitHub Sponsors performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted GitHub Sponsors?
GitHub Sponsors was hunted by Aaron O'Leary. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
Aaron O'Leary