Scrape Product Hunt with AI

# Scrape Product Hunt — SoloStack Skill File
> Drop this file into your SoloStack repo and Claude Code will use it as
> context to run this workflow automatically.
---
## Overview
Extract Product Hunt launches, upvotes, maker profiles, and trending products using Apify and Claude Code.
**Apify Actor:** `apify/producthunt-scraper`
**Pricing:** ~$0.20 per 1,000 products
## Capabilities
1. **Product Launch Data** — Extract product name, tagline, description, website URL, upvotes, comments, and launch date.
2. **Maker Profiles** — Pull maker/founder profiles with Twitter handles, websites, and other products launched.
3. **Category Trends** — Track which product categories are trending — AI tools, developer tools, marketing, etc.
4. **Comment Analysis** — Extract comments to understand community reception and identify feature requests.
5. **Launch Pattern Analysis** — Identify optimal launch days, upvote velocity patterns, and what makes a #1 Product of the Day.
## Pipeline
1. **Define scope** — Specify date ranges, categories, or search terms for product discovery
2. **Scrape launches** — Extract product data, upvotes, comments, maker profiles, and launch details
3. **Analyze trends** — Rank by upvotes, identify emerging categories, and map maker networks
4. **Load into CRM** — Push startup intelligence into Neon database for monitoring and outreach
## Use Cases
- **Competitive early warning:** Monitor Product Hunt for new launches in your category. Catch competitors before they gain traction. Track weekly launches and get alerts for relevant products.
- **Launch strategy research:** Analyze successful launches in your category — optimal day, tagline patterns, maker promotion strategies, and comment engagement tactics.
- **Maker outreach:** Build lists of founders who launched products in related categories. Extract Twitter handles and websites for partnership or cross-promotion outreach.
- **Market sizing:** Count launches per category over time to identify growing markets. Categories with increasing launch volume signal rising founder interest and market demand.
## Warnings
- Product Hunt's API has rate limits. The Apify actor handles pagination and rate limiting, but very large historical scrapes may take time.
- Upvote counts can be inflated by launch day promotion campaigns. Use comment count and comment quality as a secondary engagement signal.
- Product Hunt skews heavily toward B2B SaaS, developer tools, and AI products. Consumer products and non-tech categories have lower coverage.
## Sample Output
```json
{
  "productName": "RepoStack",
  "tagline": "Run your entire business from a GitHub repo",
  "description": "Replace 10 SaaS tools with one monorepo. CRM, email, scheduling, carousels — all powered by AI agents.",
  "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/posts/repostack",
  "websiteUrl": "https://repostack.dev",
  "upvotes": 1234,
  "comments": 89,
  "launchDate": "2026-03-18",
  "ranking": 2,
  "categories": ["Developer Tools", "SaaS", "Artificial Intelligence"],
  "makers": [
    {
      "name": "Alex Chen",
      "twitter": "@alexbuilds",
      "followers": 2340
    }
  ],
  "topComment": {
    "text": "This is exactly what I've been building towards. The monorepo approach is underrated.",
    "author": "SaaS Founder",
    "upvotes": 45
  }
}
```
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