Product Hunt MCP

Product Hunt MCP wraps Product Hunt's GraphQL API so you can query trending posts, comments, collections, and user profiles directly from Claude. It's a straightforward data fetch tool: you ask for today's top posts, dig into a specific product's comment thread, or pull a maker's profile without opening a browser tab. I'd reach for this when tracking launches in a specific category or monitoring how a competitor's product is performing. The real win is speed: instead of clicking through Product Hunt's interface, you can ask Claude to "show me the top 10 posts in the AI category this week" and get structured data back. You can also pull comment sentiment or see who's collecting certain products, which is useful for outreach or partnership research. The tool requires a Product Hunt API token, which you'll need to generate from your Product Hunt account settings. Once that's in place, the MCP exposes a handful of tools: fetching posts by date or category, retrieving comments, pulling collections, and querying user profiles. It's read-only, so you can't post or upvote through it. Quirks: Product Hunt's API has rate limits, and this MCP doesn't surface those limits in a friendly way. If you hit the cap, you'll get an error and need to wait. Also, the GraphQL schema means you're working with nested data structures, which Claude handles fine but can feel verbose if you're used to REST responses. The repo is maintained by a single developer, so expect community-level support rather than enterprise SLAs. Who shouldn't bother: if you're just casually browsing Product Hunt, the website is faster. This is for people who need Product Hunt data as part of a workflow, like daily competitor checks, launch prep research, or building a custom dashboard. It's also overkill if you only care about one or two products; just bookmark them.