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RecipeHowToUpdated May 2026· 15 min to deploy

Track Product Hunt launches in real time

During launch day, every comment, upvote, and ranking change posts to a Slack channel so the team can engage in real time.

Slack
OpenAI
Steps

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Each step is a single node on the canvas. Order matters; everything else is dragging.

  1. 1
    Trigger
    Polling trigger

    Schedule every 5 min: Product Hunt Get Product stats.

  2. 2
    Transform
    Compare to last poll

    Track upvote count + comment count deltas.

  3. 3
    Action
    Alert on changes

    New comment → Slack post with content + AI-suggested reply. Big upvote spike → ping in #launch.

FAQ

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What's the polling cadence?
5 min during launch day. Daily after. PH doesn't offer webhooks, polling is the only option.

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