Daily product digest
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When the user wants a summary of what's trending on Product Hunt, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, or other product/startup communities. Also use when the user mentions "what launched today", "trending products", "HN front page", or "keep up with the market".
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Daily Product Digest
When to Use
- Founder wants a daily or weekly summary of what's happening in the startup/product ecosystem
- Founder wants to track competitor launches and market trends
- Founder wants to identify products launching in their space or adjacent spaces
- Founder wants launch inspiration or to study what's getting traction
- Founder wants to spot emerging trends, tools, or technologies relevant to their market
Context Required
- Founder's product category and market (to filter for relevance)
- Sources to monitor (Product Hunt, Hacker News, Indie Hackers, Reddit, etc.)
- Frequency (daily, weekly, or on-demand)
- What they care about most (competitor activity, market trends, launch tactics, technology shifts)
Workflow
- Define monitoring scope — based on startup-context, identify:
- Keywords and categories to track (e.g., "developer tools", "AI", "fintech")
- Direct competitors to watch for
- Adjacent markets that could expand into your space
- Scan sources — check each platform for the specified time period:
- Product Hunt: top launches, upvote counts, maker comments, notable hunters
- Hacker News: front page stories, Show HN posts, Ask HN threads, comment sentiment
- Indie Hackers: new launches, revenue milestones, popular discussions
- Reddit: relevant subreddit activity (r/SaaS, r/startups, r/[your-niche])
- Filter for relevance — from everything found, flag items that are:
- Direct competitors or alternatives to the founder's product
- In the same category or solving adjacent problems
- Demonstrating a trend or shift relevant to the founder's market
- Using interesting launch tactics worth studying
- Analyze what's working — for top-performing launches/posts, note:
- What made it resonate (positioning, timing, problem framing)
- Community reaction and sentiment
- Potential implications for the founder's product or market
- Generate the digest — produce a concise, actionable summary.
Output Format
## Product Digest — [Date or Date Range]
### Relevant to You
Items directly related to your market ([category]).
**[Product/Post Name]** — [one-line description]
- Source: [Product Hunt / HN / etc.] | [upvotes/points] | [link]
- Why it matters: [relevance to founder's product/market]
- Takeaway: [what to learn or watch]
### Competitor Activity
- [Competitor] launched [feature/product] on [platform] — [reaction summary]
### Market Trends
- **[Trend]:** [2-3 sentence summary of what's shifting and why it matters]
### Launch Tactics Worth Noting
- [Product] did [tactic] and got [result] — applicable to your launch because [reason]
### Worth Reading
- [Title] ([source]) — [why it's worth the founder's time]
Frameworks & Best Practices
Source-specific signals:
| Source | What to watch | Signal of quality |
|---|---|---|
| Product Hunt | Top 5 daily launches | 500+ upvotes, maker engagement in comments |
| Hacker News | Front page, Show HN | 100+ points, substantive comment threads |
| Indie Hackers | Product launches, milestones | Revenue numbers shared, detailed build stories |
| Niche subreddits | High comment-to-upvote ratio, genuine discussion |
What makes a digest useful:
- Ruthless filtering — a 20-item list is noise. Pick 3-5 items that actually matter to this founder's situation.
- "So what?" for each item — don't just report what launched. Explain why the founder should care.
- Actionable takeaways — end each item with what the founder could do (watch this competitor, study this tactic, consider this positioning angle).
- Pattern recognition — after doing this regularly, highlight emerging patterns ("third AI coding tool this week targeting enterprise — market is heating up").
Common mistakes:
- Reporting everything instead of filtering for relevance
- Missing the comments/discussion (often more valuable than the launch itself)
- Treating all sources equally (HN comments are gold for developer sentiment; PH upvotes can be gamed)
- Not connecting findings to the founder's own strategy
Related Skills
competitive-analysis— for deep competitor research beyond daily monitoringmarket-research— for structured market sizing and trend analysislaunch-strategy— to apply launch tactics observed in the wild
Examples
Prompt: "What launched on Product Hunt and Hacker News today that's relevant to my API monitoring startup?"
Good output includes: Filtered digest of today's launches related to APIs, monitoring, observability, or developer tools. For each relevant item: what it does, how it performed, community reaction, and whether it's a competitor or adjacent product.
Prompt: "Give me a weekly roundup of what's happening in the AI coding tools space."
Good output includes: Summary of AI coding launches/updates across PH, HN, and Reddit from the past week, trend analysis (what themes keep recurring), competitor moves, and 2-3 tactical observations the founder can act on.