Your Product Hunt trailer, ready before launch day
The first thing hunters see is your gallery video. Generate a tight 30–45s trailer from your landing page — real product tour, benefit-led narration, captions for sound-off scrolling.
Free preview · no signup · pick a plan to render
Launch-day fast
From URL to finished trailer in minutes, not a week of back-and-forth with an editor. Iterate hooks the night before.
Gallery-optimized
16:9 for the PH gallery plus 9:16 cuts for the social push — one brand kit, both formats.
Sounds like a launch
Energetic narration written from your own copy, music ducked under the voice, a clean CTA end card.
Why the video decides a Product Hunt launch
A Product Hunt listing gets a few seconds of attention from someone scrolling a page of other launches. The thumbnail and the first line of the tagline decide whether they stop; the video decides whether they upvote and click through.
A listing with a real product video reads as a finished, funded, serious launch. One with three screenshots and a paragraph reads as a side project — fairly or not, and regardless of which product is better.
What to put in a launch-day trailer
Open on the product doing the thing, not on your logo. The audience is other makers who will forgive rough edges but not a slow start.
Show the actual interface. This audience installs software for a living and can tell a real product from a mockup instantly, so a fake dashboard costs more credibility here than almost anywhere else.
Keep it under 60 seconds and caption it — a large share of Product Hunt browsing happens at work, muted, in a tab beside something else.
Make it before launch week, not during
Launch day is a bad day to be waiting on an asset. Generating the trailer from your live landing page means it can exist a week early and be regenerated the night before if the product changed, without a re-brief or a render queue.
It also means you can make the vertical cut for the launch-day social thread from the same brand kit and script, rather than re-cutting a landscape video at 2am.
How it works
Paste your landing page URL — the plan and script preview free.
Pick a plan, tweak any scene in the editor, render in 1080p.
Download the 16:9 gallery cut and a 9:16 teaser for X and LinkedIn.
Frequently asked questions
Does a Product Hunt launch need a video?
It is not required, but a listing with a real product video reads as a serious, finished launch, and the video is what converts a scroll into an upvote and a click. Listings with only screenshots tend to read as side projects.
How long should a Product Hunt video be?
Under 60 seconds. The audience is other makers scanning a page of competing launches, so open on the product doing something rather than on a logo animation.
How fast can I make a launch trailer?
The free preview takes about 15 seconds and a full render finishes in minutes, so a trailer can be made the night before launch — or regenerated if the product changed during launch week.
Can I get a vertical version for the launch-day thread?
Yes. Every plan includes 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1 from the same brand kit and script, so the social cut is generated rather than re-edited.
What does a Product Hunt launch video cost?
Plans start at $19/month for 8 videos, so a launch trailer costs a few dollars. The preview is free and needs no account, which means you can see the scene plan and script before deciding.