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Product Hunt

Entertainment — A community-driven platform for discovering, sharing, and discussing new products across technol…
Entertainmentmarketplaceest. 2013
▲ Rising
Category standing real
66th pctl · Entertainment
22.9
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#2,530
Category rank
of 11,555 · real
53th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
3%
Mortality P(dead)
verified label · real

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 9.616.3 across 36 readings (+6.6). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
53
Signal (category) real
66
Profile maturity real
53
Tag breadth real
95
Network position sparse
100
Press footprint sparse
0

Percentiles computed over the modeled cohort (embedding + signal + tags). Sparse dimensions — network and press — reflect that most products have zero, so a single edge or mention lifts the rank; read those with the coverage flag.

Mortality outlook

verified label
3%
P(inactive)
Low risk
Higher risk than 7% of the universe.

This product carries a verified outcome label (“surviving”) — it is one of 600 hand-labeled cases the model is trained and tested on.

  • LightGBM · binary mortality (dead vs surviving)
  • Held-out AUC 0.71 · CV AUC 0.79 ± 0.05 · Brier 0.21
  • Trained on 600 verified labels (150 dead / 450 surviving)
  • Leakage-guarded: excludes status, discontinued_year, profile_maturity
  • Top drivers: tag breadth, signal, vintage, liveness, business model

n=600 is thin → 95% CI on AUC ≈ ±0.10. Treat as a directional signal, not a calibrated probability.

Analyst read

generated from the metrics above · no external narrative

Product Hunt sits in the 53th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #2,530 of 11,555 in Entertainment. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 3% — a verified outcome label. It sits on the competitive-alternatives graph with 10 linked rivals, so the comparable set below leans on curated edges. Signal momentum is positive (WoW +28.0).

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Tsuentertainmentsimilar32.936%
Westeria Appcommunicationtag-overlap32.915%
Eristicaentertainmentsimilar22.96%
MetaAgegamingtag-overlap30.031%
YourStackentertainmentsimilar30.012%
icoolhuntentertainmentsimilar15.749%
GPTsPublic - Public Your GPTs in Thereai-toolstag-overlap32.928%
Twitterentertainmentsimilar22.99%

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Signal & P(dead) are real / model.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelmarketplace
Liveness tierfading
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

3 disclosed funding rounds on record, 1 founder resolved. See the full cap table on the product profile →