How to Write a Product Hunt Launch Listing from Product Facts
Product Hunt drafts mint 1,204 upvotes and a hunter quote. Facts had a harbor-log tagger. Stop at the tagline the brief actually gave you.
The matching generator is the Product Hunt Launch Listing from Product Facts (No Invented Upvotes or Maker Quotes) (Product Hunt Launch Listing From Product Facts No Invented Upvotes) prompt. Browse related cards in the PromptDig library (Browse more prompts). When a filled run survives, share the version you actually use (Share a prompt).
Title and tagline only from pasted facts
Write a Product Hunt launch listing from product facts only. No invented upvotes, maker quotes, or hunter names. Start by filling Inputs, not by asking the model to remember last week's run. If a field is blank, write NONE or NOT IN INPUTS and leave it blank through Generate. The card is built so the model cannot honestly invent a number, owner, URL, or command that you did not paste.
Paste these fields before you hit run:
Product facts (name, what it does, who it is for, pricing note or UNKNOWN): [Facts]
Tagline character cap: [TagCap or 60]
Description character cap: [DescCap or 260]
Maker first-comment facts I allow (or NONE): [Maker]
Words I must not use: [Banned]
What I must never invent (upvotes, hunter, quotes): [Never]
Output format: [Format]
Language: [Lang]
Topics I may name: [Topics]
That inventory is the honesty ledger. Anything that does not appear there is forbidden in the draft. If you catch yourself adding a nice-to-have after the run, you are no longer using the card. You are ghostwriting. Put the extra fact in Inputs and run again.
Leave hunter UNKNOWN if no name was pasted
Generate is numbered on purpose. Do not skip a step because the first paragraph looked done. The early steps exist to stop later prose from smuggling claims.
Walk the Generate list in order:
- Honesty ledger: Facts nouns, TagCap, DescCap, Maker status, Lang, Topics. Forbidden: upvote counts, #1 Product of the Day, invented hunter.
- Name and tagline: Facts only. Stay under TagCap. Print count.
- Description: Facts only. Stay under DescCap. Print count. Pricing UNKNOWN stays UNKNOWN.
- Maker first comment: only Maker facts. If Maker is NONE, write MAKER COMMENT NONE.
- Refuse list: upvote integers, Product of the Day, hunter handle, App Store rank, invented testimonials.
- Topics: only Topics named. Do not add Developer Tools unless listed.
- Never: do not write 'already at 500 upvotes' or paste a fake @hunter.
- Compliance pass: quote Banned and Never hits. Cut them. Print counts. Format as Format.
If a step asks for a version lock, quote the version from Inputs in the output. If a step asks for a refuse list, keep the refuse list in the published artifact, not in a sidebar you delete. Reviewers should see what the model was not allowed to do.
Refuse upvotes maker quotes and press logos
Most failures are the same shape: a missing field gets a confident fill. A conversion rate appears. A Gradle task appears. A flash point appears. A caption appears on a job that asked for slide text only. Your review is to search the draft for numbers, names, and commands, then grep Inputs. No match means cut.
Honor the constraints as hard stops, not vibes:
- Product Hunt listing from Facts. Not a comment-spam kit and not an App Store page.
- Never invent upvotes, hunter names, or maker quotes.
- Honor TagCap and DescCap.
- No emojis.
When the card says not legal advice, not certification, not an exam dump, or not a caption engine, that sentence belongs at the top of the output. Deleting it to look more finished is how you inherit risk.
Print character counts against the cap
Finish with the compliance pass the prompt already asks for. Quote the banned-word hits. Cut them. Print character counts when the job has a cap. Print word counts when the job has a budget. List gaps as gaps. Five missing facts are more useful than one smooth paragraph.
Tags on the card (product hunt launch listing, no invented upvotes, product facts only listing) are a reminder of the job shape, not an invitation to wander into a neighboring cluster. If you need a different surface, open a different PromptDig card rather than stretching this one.
Fill the card, then run
Replace every bracket. Run on ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. Read the ledger first, then the artifact. If the model invents a commit, KPI, DOI, PEL, bid, or logo, discard the run. Tighten Inputs. Run again. Share the filled card that survived, not the first draft that sounded done.