Launch platform insights

What 126,981 products launched on Product Hunt, Hacker News and PeerPush were built with.

126,981

launches analysed

63%

no AI stance on robots.txt

43%

skip ToS or privacy policy

20-39

typical "looks AI-built" band

Looks AI-built

How AI-built do these launches look? Higher = more AI fingerprints.

0-19

56,640 45%

20-39

41,200 33%

40-59

13,762 11%

60-79

4,099 3%

80-100

10,959 9%

Product Hunt avg 30 (95,068 sites)

Hacker News avg 18 (9,319 sites)

10 providers

on one site, all configured for email. 100 sites use 5 or more.

Commitment issues?

11,480 sites

ship a sitemap with fewer than 3 URLs.

Why bother?

AI Posture

How sites position themselves on AI crawlers, and which crawlers they block most.

Stance breakdown

No stance 63%

Open (has llms.txt) 27%

Blocking AI bots 8%

Confused (blocks but has llms.txt) 2%

Most blocked crawlers

across 99,454 sites with a robots.txt

CCBot 14%

Bytespider 13%

GPTBot 13%

Google-Extended 13%

ClaudeBot 13%

Amazonbot 13%

Applebot-Extended 13%

meta-externalagent 12%

Site Hygiene

Legal pages, sitemaps, and the basics of being a real site.

Legal compliance

68% have a privacy policy

59% have terms of service

57% have both

549 shipped unfilled placeholders

Policy generators detected:

Termly (501) Iubenda (183) TermsFeed (169) Notion (160) FreePrivacyPolicy.com (45) GetTerms (27) PrivacyPolicies.com (19)

Web standards

72% publish a sitemap

27% use Google Search Console

24% publish an app manifest

23% are installable as a PWA

Avg sitemap: 263 URLs (median 15, max 504,452).

Techs That Ship Together

Most common technology pairings across launches.

Google Search Console	↔	HSTS	46,790 launches
HSTS	↔	Tailwind CSS	44,338 launches
Google Search Console	↔	Tailwind CSS	42,397 launches
Cloudflare	↔	HTTP/3	41,635 launches
React	↔	Tailwind CSS	41,390 launches
Google Analytics	↔	Google Tag Manager	40,858 launches
HSTS	↔	React	39,774 launches
HSTS	↔	Vercel	37,836 launches
Cloudflare	↔	Google Search Console	37,799 launches
Google Analytics	↔	Google Search Console	37,481 launches

More curiosities

13,647 sites have a privacy policy but no terms of service. Half the legal job done.
2,336 sites have terms of service but no privacy policy. Backwards priorities.