We're launching a new set of product category pages, which combine our Shoutouts data (which products are loved by the top builders) and Product Landscape articles written by top founders who are experts in their fields.
Product Hunt is indispensable as the place to see what's new, but with the introduction of Shoutouts (the products that power top launches), Product Hunt now has an incredible dataset of which products are most loved (20,000 Shoutouts and counting).
But the data is only a piece of the puzzle — to really make a call on which product to try or buy, you need to understand that product's category. We asked ourselves: Who are the absolute best people to paint the landscape of a product category. More often than not, they're active founders.
We asked them if they'd be up for making a truly exceptional product landscape overview - not the SEO grift that's so common. They over-delivered.
Our inaugural set of Product Landscapes:
Data Analysis - Barry McCardel (CEO of Hex) @barrald
Security and Compliance - Christina Cacioppo (CEO of Vanta) @christinacaci
AI Infra - Kwindla Kramer (CEO of Daily) @kwindla
SEO Tools - Nate Matherson (CEO of Positional) @nate_matherson2
Video Conferencing - me! (former CEO of Tandem)
Notion Templates - Ben Lang (former growth at Notion) @benln
Hiring Software - Max Kolysh (CEO at Dover) @max_kolysh
Online Banking - Immad Akhund (CEO at Mercury) @immad
AI Databases - Davit Buniatyan (CEO at Activeloop) @david_buniatyan
AI Notetakers - Richard White (CEO at Fathom) @richard_white
Check them out, send them to a friend who's looking into one of these categories, and let us know what you think!
About Product Landscapes on Product Hunt
“Category overviews written by top founders”
Product Landscapes launched on Product Hunt on September 19th, 2024 and earned 488 upvotes and 31 comments, placing #4 on the daily leaderboard. We're launching a new set of product category pages, which combine our Shoutouts data (which products are loved by the top builders) and Product Landscape articles written by top founders who are experts in their fields.
On the analytics side, Product Landscapes competes within Marketing and Product Hunt — topics that collectively have 532k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Product Landscapes performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Product Landscapes?
Product Landscapes was hunted by Rajiv Ayyangar. 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.
Rajiv Ayyangar