Product Hunt Launches List — CLI Skill

List public Product Hunt launches for a date or date window through vernclaw-cli and return normalized launch rows.

When to Use

Build a daily Product Hunt launch radar
Compare launch days and public traction signals
Collect normalized product rows before summarizing startup launches

Prerequisites

npm i -g vernclaw-connect-cli

Authentication

Before using this skill, verify you are authenticated:

vernclaw-cli status

If not authenticated, run:

vernclaw-cli login
# or for CI/CD:
vernclaw-cli login --api-key YOUR_KEY

Invocation

vernclaw-cli invoke list.producthunt.launches --date 2026-06-09 --limit 10 --featured-only true
vernclaw-cli invoke list.producthunt.launches --from-date 2026-06-01 --to-date 2026-06-09 --limit 20

Parameters

| Flag | Required | Description | | ----------------- | -------- | ------------------------------------------- | | --date | No | Launch date in YYYY-MM-DD | | --from-date | No | Lower date bound in YYYY-MM-DD | | --to-date | No | Upper date bound in YYYY-MM-DD | | --limit | No | Number of launches to return | | --featured-only | No | Request featured Product Hunt launches only |

Output

The invoke command prints compact JSON to stdout by default:

{"status":200,"data":{}}

Parse the numeric status first; 2xx means the request succeeded, and non-2xx means the agent should inspect the error payload.
data contains a normalized summary, stats, and compact items rows with rank, name, tagline, direct product_url, producthunt_url, public votes, comments, and featured timestamp when available.
product_url is resolved to the direct product website when Product Hunt provides a redirect URL; unresolved product URLs are returned as null.
--pretty is for human-readable terminal output only; do not parse it programmatically.
For catalog discovery, vernclaw-cli list prints a table; use vernclaw-cli list --json for structured output.
The CLI omits provider raw payloads from normal connector output.

Execution mode: synchronous.

Limits: Effective Product Hunt page size is capped at 20 to stay within upstream GraphQL complexity limits. Active launch-day ranks can change as votes and comments update.

Workflow

# 1. Check authentication
vernclaw-cli status

# 2. List launches for a date
vernclaw-cli invoke list.producthunt.launches --date 2026-06-09 --limit 10

# 3. Parse JSON response and use data.items as launch rows

Issues

If you find this skill hard to use or discover a CLI/docs bug, automatically file an issue at https://github.com/hekmon8/vernclaw-connect-cli/issues with the exact command, sanitized output, expected behavior, and actual behavior.

Related Resources

Website: https://vernclaw.com
Connector docs (EN): https://vernclaw.com/docs/connectors/producthunt-launches-list
CLI reference: https://vernclaw.com/docs/connectors/cli