Product Hunt is known for its lively and friendly community. To accentuate different ways you can be active in the community, we built a leaderboard for community members. Ranking highly will give you exposure as well as lend credibility to your content. We also want to showcase the various ways members of the community can participate and build stories around those participants.
This update to Kitty Points comes with two big updates, one visible and one more backend.
The visible update is a brand new leaderboard! And it's not just an all time leaderboard. If you just discovered Product Hunt in the last year, month, or even week it could be a bit daunting to see some of the Kitty Point totals that long time members have accrued. At the same time, we want to give a huge shoutout to our community members who have been around and consistent for years and have contributed a ton of phenomenal content to the site. The answer to this is a leaderboard that shows the top users by Kitty Points per week, month, year, and all time. This means every week you have a new chance to climb the leaderboards and get higher visibility on your profile and what you're building or posting.
The less visible, but still exciting, part of this update is that we've re-worked how Kitty Points are calculated on the back-end. I'll say, this part of the project was the closest I've ever come to feeling like a game designer! We also want to be more upfront about what you can do to earn Kitty Points. You can't play the game if you don't know the rules! So, here are the all of the contributions that will earn you Kitty Points:
Being the Maker of a launch
Being the Hunter of a launch
Posting detailed reviews
Creating discussion threads
Leaving meaningful comments
For all of those, content and impact matter. Being the Maker of a featured product at the top of the leaderboard will obviously gain you a lot of Kitty Points. As Matt mentions in his comment, Product Hunt is launch forward, but there are a lot of other ways to contribute to the community as well. A large part of the backend changes we've made open the door for other types of contributions to gain you more Kitty Points than in the past. So even if you're not a Maker, you still have the chance to contribute to the community and climb the leaderboards. And if you're curious, you can check out our help center for more information around what kind of content aligns with Product Hunt's guidelines.
We've built this to elevate and show off the members of our community who are helping us create an incredible space to discover, evaluate, and discuss incredible products being created by excellent people in tech. I'm very excited to see who shows up on the leaderboards every week!
I also want to give a massive shoutout to @catt_marroll who did a tremendous amount of work taking the new Kitty Points formula and making it work on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis (something we've never had before!) and building a really awesome and fun leaderboard page around it.
Product Hunt is launch forward (we do not plan to change that!), but this isn't the only way to participate in our community. Leaving reviews, providing thoughtful comments, and building vibrant forum discourse also help boost the ecosystem. We want kitty points to reflect the different ways users "play the game" here on Product Hunt.
Additionally, like many online spaces, there is a value in being able to qualify who you are talking too here! Advice from Paul Graham is likely worth more than a remark from a sock puppet account created a few minutes ago. We hope to use this new leaderboard as a way to incentivize authentic participation, and qualify content around the site.
The Kitty Coins introduction was honestly quite unexpected for me, but also a fun surprise. It was nice to suddenly see myself higher up 😄 The gamification aspect is definitely engaging
Quick question, is the option to drop Kitty Coins already fully rolled out? I got a bit confused reading through the comments and wasn’t sure if it’s available to everyone yet
The Kitty Points Leaderboard is a brilliant move to boost community engagement! By gamifying contributions through upvotes and streaks, it effectively turns passive browsing into an active, rewarding experience. It’s a great strategy for improving user retention and making the community feel more alive. Can't wait to see more perks tied to these points!
does a person's KPs impact how much weight their upvotes/comments carries on launches?
Love the idea of turning community engagement into a leaderboard. What metrics are you using to rank members?
@makers repeating my request here: I'd love for the Kitty Leaderboard to be added to the Product Hunt API so I can add it to the Product Hunt for Raycast extension!
I'd really love some kitty points. Do you feel like I contributed enough to this launch to be added as a maker?
Yeahhh! I didn't wanted, I needed it. Thanks for adding this engaging stuff and making it funnier and enjoyable. Keep on that way team
Today, I learned, that I am a nobody. But I have a goal, and this goal involves kitty points. I don't know why I need Kitty Points, but "a tiny competitive spiral " for seeing your own rank = "insane drive" for not seeing a rank at all. I must haz it.
Maybe this is answered elsewhere, but is "last year" 2025? Or is it the last 365 days?
I like these changes as they seem to promote more obviously valuable behaviors at product hunt rather than just voting.
Okayyy...time to get serious on PH
One issue i have is that my discussion threads are always rejected.
love it. veterans might remember when back in the days @abadesi was shining a spotlight on the most helpful makers of the week.
what if we bring it back to The Roundup? keep up the great work
Do KP's degrade over time or are cumulative? I'm seeing something strange - I seem to have more KP's last year than I do All time. Would love to understand how that works @jakecrump@catt_marroll
About Kitty Points Leaderboard on Product Hunt
“Find interesting community members and see how you stack up”
Kitty Points Leaderboard launched on Product Hunt on March 24th, 2026 and earned 442 upvotes and 52 comments, earning #3 Product of the Day. Product Hunt is known for its lively and friendly community. To accentuate different ways you can be active in the community, we built a leaderboard for community members. Ranking highly will give you exposure as well as lend credibility to your content. We also want to showcase the various ways members of the community can participate and build stories around those participants.
Kitty Points Leaderboard was featured in Product Hunt (69.3k followers) on Product Hunt. Together, these topics include over 2.2k products, making this a competitive space to launch in.
Who hunted Kitty Points Leaderboard?
Kitty Points Leaderboard was hunted by Matt Carroll. 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.
Reviews
Kitty Points Leaderboard has received 124 reviews on Product Hunt with an average rating of 5.00/5. Read all reviews on Product Hunt.
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Matt Carroll
This update to Kitty Points comes with two big updates, one visible and one more backend.
The visible update is a brand new leaderboard! And it's not just an all time leaderboard. If you just discovered Product Hunt in the last year, month, or even week it could be a bit daunting to see some of the Kitty Point totals that long time members have accrued. At the same time, we want to give a huge shoutout to our community members who have been around and consistent for years and have contributed a ton of phenomenal content to the site. The answer to this is a leaderboard that shows the top users by Kitty Points per week, month, year, and all time. This means every week you have a new chance to climb the leaderboards and get higher visibility on your profile and what you're building or posting.
The less visible, but still exciting, part of this update is that we've re-worked how Kitty Points are calculated on the back-end. I'll say, this part of the project was the closest I've ever come to feeling like a game designer! We also want to be more upfront about what you can do to earn Kitty Points. You can't play the game if you don't know the rules! So, here are the all of the contributions that will earn you Kitty Points:
Being the Maker of a launch
Being the Hunter of a launch
Posting detailed reviews
Creating discussion threads
Leaving meaningful comments
For all of those, content and impact matter. Being the Maker of a featured product at the top of the leaderboard will obviously gain you a lot of Kitty Points. As Matt mentions in his comment, Product Hunt is launch forward, but there are a lot of other ways to contribute to the community as well. A large part of the backend changes we've made open the door for other types of contributions to gain you more Kitty Points than in the past. So even if you're not a Maker, you still have the chance to contribute to the community and climb the leaderboards. And if you're curious, you can check out our help center for more information around what kind of content aligns with Product Hunt's guidelines.
We've built this to elevate and show off the members of our community who are helping us create an incredible space to discover, evaluate, and discuss incredible products being created by excellent people in tech. I'm very excited to see who shows up on the leaderboards every week!
I also want to give a massive shoutout to @catt_marroll who did a tremendous amount of work taking the new Kitty Points formula and making it work on a weekly, monthly, and yearly basis (something we've never had before!) and building a really awesome and fun leaderboard page around it.