Product Hunt vs DevHunt
Product Hunt covers every kind of product and ranks launches by the day. DevHunt is only for developer tools, and ranks the tools launching in the same week by community votes, so a developer product competes with its peers rather than with consumer apps.
Choose Product Hunt if
your product appeals beyond developers.
Choose DevHunt if
you built a developer tool, API or open source project and want an audience of developers.
Side by side
| Fact | Product Hunt | DevHunt |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Launch platform | Launch platform |
| Best for | Consumer and prosumer software with an audience ready to show up on launch day. | Developer tools, APIs and open-source projects. |
| How a launch works | You schedule a launch for a day; the day's products compete on upvotes and comments, and the top ones are featured. | You submit a tool for a launch week; tools in the same week are ranked by community votes. |
| Link to your site | No ranking credit: rel="ugc" (on the 2 listings we checked) | Dofollow (on the 2 listings we checked) |
| Price | Not checked yet | Not checked yet |
| Suits | consumer apps, SaaS, AI products, indie makers | developer tools, open source |
| Last checked | Oct 24, 2026 | Oct 24, 2026 |
“Not checked yet” means we have not verified it on a real listing. We never guess, and a platform can treat paid or featured listings differently.
Questions
- Should I launch on Product Hunt or DevHunt?
- Choose Product Hunt if your product appeals beyond developers. Choose DevHunt if you built a developer tool, API or open source project and want an audience of developers.
- Do Product Hunt and DevHunt give a dofollow link?
- DevHunt gave a dofollow link on the listings we checked. Product Hunt's link carried rel="ugc" on the listings we checked, so it passes no ranking credit.
- Can I launch on both Product Hunt and DevHunt?
- Yes. They reach different people, so many founders use both: launch on one, improve the tagline and screenshots with what you learn, then launch on the other a few days later.
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