ShipWall
Ten a day, frozen at midnight UTC
17 Sep open21h 55m to freezeSubmit a launch
2 compared6 criteria, identical for every columnevery competitor figure read off that company’s own pagelast verified 11 Sep 20264 questions answeredread from the capture of 13 Sep, 17:32 UTC

ShipWall vs Product Hunt

Two launch boards, both free to submit, compared on the six things a maker actually has to decide between — read off each site's own pages rather than recalled.

The whole marketEvery figure was read off the company’s own page. The sources are at the foot of this page.

The verdict

Launch on Product Hunt if reach is the whole goal. It is free, it is the largest audience in this market by a wide margin, and no comparison table changes that. Choose ShipWall when a visible placing matters more than a big one: Product Hunt publishes no daily cap, so a launch that lands outside the top handful gets the listing without getting the launch, while ShipWall takes ten products a day and never more. The other difference worth the decision is what money can do — ShipWall's $9 buys queue position and nothing else, and the board says so on its own pricing: “Still ranked by votes alone”. Product Hunt's launch guide names no paid tier at all, which is the cleanest possible version of the same promise.

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2 comparedLaunch boards on the same 6 criterialast verified 11 Sep 2026
Product HuntShipWallFree to submitYes“Is Product Hunt free? Yes. It's 100% free to use.”Yes“$0 to submit”, stated on the submit form beside a live count of the queue ahead of you and the free slots left.Cheapest paid optionNot publishedThe launch guide names no paid promotion tier, and producthunt.com/advertise returned 404 on the same day.$9“Skip the line $9 … One payment. Your submission is scheduled ahead of the free queue.”What the money buysNot publishedQueue position“A one-off payment that moves your approved submission to the front of the queue. It takes the next free slot instead of waiting behind everything already booked.”Can money move you upNot publishedNoThe $19 featured tier marks the row and nothing else — its queue priority is the same line of code as the $9 tier's: “Still ranked by votes alone”.Products per dayNot published10, as a hard cap“10 products launch a day and never more, and every published day is here.”When the day turnsPacific Time“12:01 am Pacific Time is the best time to launch for makers that are planning ahead and don't have limitations or other opportunities.”00:00 UTC“Votes move the ranking for 24 hours. At 00:00 UTC it freezes and never moves again.”

Every figure in this table was read off that company's own page, and each source URL with the day it was read is at the foot of this page. ShipWall is one of the 2 compared and is the one publishing the table.

“Not published” means that company does not state the figure on the page cited at the foot of this page. It is not a claim that no such figure exists. A company that publishes no limit most likely has none, but most likely is not a fact, and this table prints what was read rather than what was inferred.

  • Can money move you up. whether a payment changes where a product sits in the ranked list, as distinct from buying an advert beside it

The questions people ask

Is it free to launch on Product Hunt?

Yes. Product Hunt's launch guide answers it directly — “Is Product Hunt free? Yes. It's 100% free to use.” There is no submission fee and the guide names no paid promotion tier; producthunt.com/advertise returned 404 when checked on 14 August 2026. The constraints Product Hunt does impose are behavioural rather than financial: “you cannot ask people directly to upvote your product. Instead, ask them to visit and comment”, and “Company accounts are prohibited”, so a launch has to be posted by a person.

How is ShipWall different from Product Hunt?

Three differences, and only three matter. ShipWall caps the board at ten products a day as a hard cap and pushes the overflow into a later day, where Product Hunt publishes no cap. ShipWall's board freezes at 00:00 UTC and is archived at that ordering, so a placing you quote cannot change afterwards, where Product Hunt's day turns at 12:01 am Pacific. And ShipWall organises the whole board on the tool a product was built with — it is a required field on the form and a filter on the board — which is a fact Product Hunt does not collect.

Does paying change where you rank on either board?

On ShipWall, no. Both paid tiers move a submission through the queue and nothing else: the $9 skip takes the next free slot and the $19 featured tier marks the row on its day and in the archive, but the pricing page states “Still ranked by votes alone”. Product Hunt publishes no paid tier at all on its launch guide, so the question does not arise there.

How many products launch per day on Product Hunt?

Product Hunt does not publish a number on its launch guide. That matters for a reason unrelated to fairness: on an uncapped board the products below the visible fold compete for attention from visitors who never scroll that far. ShipWall is the only one of the boards compared here that publishes a figure — ten a day, as a hard cap, with everything over that scheduled into a later day rather than added to the same board.

When you should pick one of these instead of ShipWall

ShipWall is not the right answer to every version of this question, and a comparison page that pretends otherwise is an advert. Each case below is a real one.

  • Product Hunt. Reach is the only thing you are optimising for. It is free, it is by a wide margin the largest audience of the five, and nothing on this page argues otherwise. If a launch has one shot and the goal is the biggest possible day, this is the board.

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What was checked, and when

Every cell above names the page it was read from and the day it was read. A figure earlier than 11 Sep 2026 fails this build rather than rendering, because a wrong figure about a named company renders perfectly.