Product Hunt
How Harken turns new Product Hunt launches into posts, who it records as makers, and when it is available.
A product launch is a loud, public moment. The team behind it has just shipped, is about to hire and is choosing the tools it will grow with. Harken treats each launch as a timely reason to start a conversation with its makers.
What Harken collects
Product Hunt is not searched by keyword. Picking it in the network picker turns the topic card into a launches source, and the keyword field goes away. Each crawl reads the launches published inside the source's look-back window (the last 7 or 30 days), newest first, up to the source's posts-per-crawl limit.
Every launch becomes a post in your Posts feed: its name and one-line tagline on top, the longer description underneath, and a link back to the launch page. Its upvotes and comment count show as the card's numbers.
That post is then scored against your company description like everything else, so a launch that has nothing to do with what you sell ends up with a low relevance score and sinks in the list.
Which actions count as signals
- Launching: the first maker listed on the launch becomes the post's author.
- Making: every other maker is attached to the same post as a co-author. They come with the launch, so no extra request is made for them.
- Hidden makers: Product Hunt sometimes withholds a maker's details. When every maker of a launch is withheld, the post is credited to the product page instead. It is scored and shown, but a product is not a person, so it never becomes a lead and never uses a credit.
Each maker carries the product name as their company and "Maker" as their title, which gives the audience filter something to match even without a profile.
How the data reaches Harken
Launches come from Product Hunt's own public interface, read with a developer token that belongs to the deployment rather than to you. Harken does not upvote, comment or follow anyone, and it never signs in with your account.
Because the makers arrive with each launch, the topic card shows no switches for people who react or comment while Product Hunt is picked. A maker may show only a name when Product Hunt shares no profile link.
Availability
Product Hunt sits in the rivals and reputation group of the agent wizard. It can be picked only once Harken has it switched on; until then it carries a Soon label.
FAQ
Do my keywords affect which launches I see?
No. Collection reads every new launch in the window. Your company description shapes the scores, and the scores decide what rises to the top.
Can I follow a competitor's launch?
A competitor's launch shows up like any other. Mentions of rival names in the text also count, as described in Competitor engagement.