HUNT0 is live — Ship Early, Hunt Early

That ladder sketch became the HUNT0 logo. It’s a reminder that progress is built rung by rung — and shipping something imperfect beats waiting for perfect.

That’s also where the tagline “Ship Early, Hunt Early” comes from: makers ship early so the community can hunt early — discover, vote, and discuss — helping great products find their first users.

If you’re building in public, launch here. If you’re curious, start hunting.

What is HUNT0?

HUNT0 is a community-driven launch directory. It brings shipping and discovery into the same rhythm:

• Reserve a launch date and make shipping a real event
• Get early feedback through voting and comments
• Use leaderboards and Explore to organize “new products” by time and interest — not noise

Launch v1.0.0: what we’ve built

v1.0.0 focuses on the core loop first: launch → discover → vote → discuss → recap/reward.

1) Home leaderboards: “what should I check out today?”

The home page is organized by time ranges so you can quickly scan what’s worth attention:

• Top Products Launching Today: products launching today (UTC)
• Yesterday / This Week / This Month: recaps with longer windows

Voting state is synchronized in real time across the page: vote on a product anywhere, and every instance updates immediately — no refresh needed.

2) Explore: filter by intent, not luck

Explore supports category, tags (up to 10), time range, and full-text search, with paginated results.

Under the same filters, Premium Launch products are prioritized above free launches in ordering — ideal for moments when visibility matters more.

3) Product pages: showcase, visit, and discuss in one place

Each product has a dedicated page for deeper context and community interaction:

• Key info and external links (Visit)
• Screenshot gallery and a longer “About this product”
• Reputation-weighted votes and comments
• Leaderboard/award badges (when you rank Top 3 in daily/weekly/monthly awards)

4) Submissions: Free queue + Premium Launch

We designed “launch” as a controlled workflow, not just posting a link:

• Free Launch: limited daily capacity (default 10 slots/day) for most launches
• Premium Launch: paid via Stripe Checkout for launches that need stronger visibility

If a premium checkout isn’t completed, the submission stays as a draft in your dashboard and won’t appear publicly until payment succeeds.

Submissions support richer presentation:

• Up to 3 categories
• Up to 10 tags
• Contact/social links (at least one)
• Logo and screenshots for a better product page

Reputation: make contribution count

Voting isn’t a flat “one person, one fixed vote”. HUNT0 uses Reputation → Level → Vote Weight:

• Earn reputation by participating (daily visits, voting, commenting, launching)
• Higher levels unlock stronger vote weight
• Leaderboards aggregate weighted votes, reflecting trusted contributors more

It’s both an incentive system and a practical way to reduce noise in early-stage communities.

Reminders & awards: treat launches like events

To make launching feel like a real moment, we added automation around it:

• Launch reminder email: sent 1 hour before the UTC launch day begins
• Daily/weekly/monthly awards: automatically compute Top 3 and notify makers (with optional public recap)

Get started

• If you’re a maker: go to Submit and reserve your launch date
• If you want to discover: go to Explore and filter by category/tags
• If you want the story: go to About and see where the ladder came from

We’ll keep iterating on discovery, leaderboards, and community incentives. Launch something, hunt something — and tell us what to improve.