producthunt_skill

Overview

This skill connects to Product Hunt to search and retrieve posts, topics, users, and collections via the Product Hunt GraphQL API. It is designed for solopreneurs and agents who need structured product launch data, topic discovery, and user activity. Use it when you need authoritative, up-to-date Product Hunt content for research, monitoring, or content creation.

How this skill works

The skill uses your Product Hunt developer access token to call the official GraphQL endpoint and fetch posts, topics, users, collections, and comments. Commands let you query by slug, ID, topic, date range, or search term and return structured JSON-like results for easy downstream processing. Rate limits are managed by the API; the skill exposes simple scripts to run common queries from the command line.

When to use it

• Monitor new product launches and featured posts
• Research products or makers before outreach or partnerships
• Find topic-specific content and trends on Product Hunt
• Aggregate user activity and post comments for sentiment or feedback analysis
• Curate collections or discover community-curated lists for content

Best practices

• Set your PRODUCTHUNT_ACCESS_TOKEN as an environment variable and keep it secure
• Specify limits and date filters to reduce API load and stay within rate limits
• Use topic and query filters to narrow results and avoid unnecessary requests
• Cache results for repeated queries when building dashboards or reports
• Validate and sanitize returned fields before displaying or storing externally

Example use cases

• Fetch today’s featured posts to power a newsletter or daily digest
• Search Product Hunt topics for "AI" to discover new tools and trends
• Retrieve a maker’s recent posts to prepare for outreach or competitive research
• Pull comments on a product to surface user feedback and common issues
• Export collections to curate resources for a landing page or resource guide