I'm super excited to finally be launching Layers on Product Hunt! 🚀
Layers started out as a passion project of mine after seeing so many designers dissatisfied with existing design platforms. Realising that I too had given up on these platforms I decided to build my own. It's a dream working on Layers and I've already made so many meaningful relationships that I already consider it a success. But if I was to have a goal for Layers, it would be for the members to own it and the code to be open-source (or at least open to the members). A community platform truly owned by the community I feel has much higher chance of thriving than one that isn't.
We've been in private beta for a while and since then we've:
🌎 Grown the community to over 20k members.
⛴️ Shipped a tonne of features like: attachments, scheduling, analytics, teams, messaging and more.
🚀 Launched a premium subscription called Layers Plus!
🎧 Started a podcast called Overlay!
💬 Grown an active Discord server.
To celebrate our PH launch, you can grab 30% off the Layers Plus annual plan, using the code PHLAUNCH30. This deal will be available for a limited time only so make the most of it 😄
A huge thanks to the whole Layers community ❤️
Liam
About Layers on Product Hunt
“A home for designers”
Layers launched on Product Hunt on February 26th, 2024 and earned 1.2k upvotes and 214 comments, earning #1 Product of the Day. Layers is a design community platform built by designers for designers ❤️ Share your work, connect with other designers and build your portfolio.
On the analytics side, Layers competes within Design Tools, Design and Community — topics that collectively have 267.5k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Layers performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Layers?
Layers was hunted by Liam McCabe. 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.
Liam McCabe