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Product Hunt Podcasts

Entertainment — The best new podcasts, every day [Product Hunt, Tech]
Entertainmentfreemiumest. 2015
● Stable
Category standing real
0th pctl · Entertainment
8.6
Signal score
0–100 composite · real
#11,370
Category rank
of 11,555 · real
0th
Universe percentile
vs 79,105 modeled · real
66%
Mortality P(dead)
verified label · real

Signal trajectory

real

Signal 6.19.1 across 38 readings (+3.1). Composite of press, GitHub velocity, community heat, liveness and funding.

Cross-sectional profile

percentile rank vs 79,105 modeled products
Signal (universe) real
0
Signal (category) real
0
Profile maturity real
0
Tag breadth real
48
Network position sparse
0
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
66%
P(inactive)
Elevated risk
Higher risk than 57% 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 Podcasts sits in the 0th percentile of Launch Sentinel's 79,105-product universe by signal, ranked #11,370 of 11,555 in Entertainment. The mortality model puts its probability of going inactive at 66% — a verified outcome label. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags. Signal momentum is roughly flat.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisSignalP(dead)
Meetings Podcast- How To Find Great Vendors For Your Evententertainmentsimilar15.772%
Founded by Googleentertainmentsimilar30.09%
How It Obviously Ends - The Podcastentertainmentsimilar22.933%
Serialentertainmentsimilar15.785%
Rich Roll Podcast: Rock Star Travis Barkerentertainmentsimilar15.746%
Reboot Podcast - Ep 24 with Hugh MacLeentertainmentsimilar15.744%
Audiologs x Tibz - 054: The value of Pop Culture Iconsentertainmentsimilar22.930%
It's a Bird, It's a Plane, It's a Podcast!entertainmentsimilar15.772%

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 modelfreemium
Liveness tierunknown
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

real

3 disclosed funding rounds on record. See the full cap table on the product profile →