Product Hunt launches on May 8, 2026
RankSpot finished #1 with 657 upvotes, ahead of Monid 2.0 and Flare. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 5,450 upvotes between them, across 22 categories, Developer Tools the busiest with 6.
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2. Monid 2.0
417 upvotesOpenRouter for agent tools
One skill, every tool your agent needs. Monid is OpenRouter for agent tools. Plug in once, and your agent can discover, compare, and pay for any of 200+ tools on demand: social scrapers, search APIs, ecommerce data, lead gen, and more.
Developer Toolsmonid.ai
3. Flare
346 upvotesAI-native voice-first social app for GenZ
Flare is an AI-native voice-first social app for Gen Z. Capture real moments: photos, short videos, or moods, and your AI Orb uses agents to turn them into memory, identity, and friendship context. No likes, followers, comments, or…
Social Media1 maker
4. Minions
266 upvotesOpen source mission control for Hermes agent
Your Hermes Agent works great for one task. Try managing 20 in parallel? It's chaos. Cron jobs fail silently, tasks are blocked and you're spending more time fixing your agent than getting results. Minions gives you a single task board to…
Open Source1 maker
5. GitHired
251 upvotesFind 100x engineers by proof of work, not resume keywords
Find 100x engineers on autopilot: Describe what you're building/looking for, and instantly get a ranked list of the most cracked engineers who meet your requirements. Search from our pool of 10k+ profiles that have been evaluated based on…
6. Fabraix
196 upvotesFind gaps in your AI agents before users do
AI agents fail in ways traditional software doesn't. Our agents help you find all the ways in which your AI agents fail by adversarially testing them in a dedicated environment. Point it at any AI agent, or multi-agent system, and it…

7. Kuku: open source
239 upvotesYour open-source, local second brain for every AI
Kuku is back as an open-source, local-first second brain for the AI era. It keeps your knowledge in plain Markdown files, then turns your vault into reusable context: wikilinks, backlinks, graph, search, and AI-assisted edits with…
Text Editors1 maker
8. Fluent Frame
172 upvotesShip polished product videos as fast as you ship features
You're shipping 3 updates a week, but marketing each feature eats hours of your time - or thousands of dollars at an agency. With Fluent Frame, you can create launch videos and product explainers from a simple text prompt. Marketing teams…

9. Ara
137 upvotesAgentic Wispr flow computer-use-agent living in your notch
Automate everything. Bring your own LLM provider and use Codex app like Computer use for free, with several agents that can work for you autonomously.
Open Source1 maker
10. Contral
132 upvotesThe agent which teaches while you build
Contral is the agent that teaches you while you build. Most developers study tutorials that have nothing to do with the code they actually work on. When they open their editor, they are on their own. Contral lives inside your existing…

11. Google Health
121 upvotesA new relationship with your health
Google Health offers personalized health coaching built with Gemini. Track your fitness, sleep, and health data with guidance that evolves with you.
Android1 maker
12. APIEval-20
121 upvotesAn open benchmark for AI agents that test APIs
APIEval-20 is a black-box benchmark for API testing agents. Each agent gets only a JSON schema and one sample payload, then generates a test suite. We run those tests against live reference APIs with planted bugs and score bug detection…
API1 maker

14. Operations
111 upvotesTurn every new tab into your personal dashboard
Most new tab extensions show you the weather. Operations shows you your work. Projects with their links and notes in one card, a browsable bookmark library, a vault for snippets and tokens, a Pomodoro timer, a water tracker. Five themes…
Chrome Extensions1 maker
15. SuperIsland
117 upvotesDynamic Island for macOS with Extensions
Dynamic Island brings iOS-style live activities to macOS. Music, battery, notifications, calendar — all living in your notch, with sdk to develop extensions. Whatsapp, Linear, Teleprompter, Last.fm, AI Agents are now available in store.

16. Kipps.AI Inbox
101 upvotesStop juggling apps. Start closing leads.
Your customers are on WhatsApp, calling in, and chatting on your site, but your team is scattered across apps, missing messages, and losing leads you already paid to acquire. Kipps Inbox brings every conversation into one place. AI…
Messaging1 maker
17. Donely Knowledge Layer
102 upvotesQueryable company knowledge base + Closed-loop AI employees
Most AI agents are blind. They run without real company context and stop after isolated tasks. Donely Knowledge Layer gives your AI employees a queryable company brain connected to meetings, docs, chats, tickets, and codebases. This…
YC Application1 maker
18. KodHau
109 upvotesStop AI agent from breaking prod—give it your team's history
KodHau MCP gives your AI agent the tribal knowledge of your team: PR history, design decisions, and review comments your senior engineers never documented.

19. MediaOptim
92 upvotesCompress images, video & audio locally and save storage
MediaOptim compresses images, videos, and audio files directly on your Mac — no uploads, no subscriptions, no privacy risk. Most compression tools send your files to a server. MediaOptim runs everything locally using native Apple…
20. Socrati
91 upvotesYour personal knowledge podcast from any source
Your personal knowledge podcast — from any source. Drop in a PDF, a YouTube video, a photo of a page, or a topic you type in. Socrati builds you a full course: narrated audio lessons, multiple-choice drills, fill-in-the-blank exercises…
Education1 maker
21. Photobomb
84 upvotesCard against humanity but for your camera roll
Photobomb is a quick, shared-screen photo guessing game for friends.
YC Application1 maker
22. Noteweave
92 upvotesGo from research to executable production plans in hours
Noteweave is an automated RnD lab. It helps teams to go from research to executable production plans in hours. 1. Stress test scientific research with Noteweave's E3 - surpasses Claude Opus 4.6 and GPT 5.4 on technical fault finding. 2.…

23. ElevenCreative Flows
84 upvotesNode-based creative pipelines, now with real-time collab
ElevenCreative Flows is a node-based canvas for building multi-modal AI pipelines that now supports real-time collaboration. Creative teams can build, run, and review the same Flow simultaneously, with live cursor presence and shared…
24. iOrchestra AI Hardware Engineers
95 upvotesPrompt to production-ready Hardware designs for manufacture
The platform that takes hardware engineers from a text prompt to a production-ready design in minutes not weeks Describe what you want. Our AI agents generate the PCB layout, schematic, mechanical design, and industrial design, across…
Hardware1 maker
25. Smart FAQs
77 upvotesSmarter AI answers from your own content + customer context
Smart FAQs helps you turn FAQs into instant answers with a customizable FAQ widget builder powered by AI search and chatbot support — all based solely on the knowledge you provide. It includes bulk CSV imports, manual FAQ creation…

26. Transition
76 upvotesAI coach to help you train smarter and race faster
Eliminate guesswork and race faster with training that adapts to you. Whether you're preparing for a sprint triathlon, 5k, Ironman, or marathon, Transition delivers adaptive swim, bike, run, and strength workouts designed to improve…
Health & Fitness1 maker
27. MiniMax Hub
77 upvotesDesktop AI workstation with agent-driven visual canvas
MiniMax Hub is a desktop AI creative workstation that combines an AI agent, multimodal generation, visual canvas, workflow view, and reusable Skills. It can create and edit images, videos, audio, and text, work with local files, and…

28. cursor party
79 upvotesLive multiplayer cursors & chat on any URL
CursorParty is a Chrome extension that reveals the invisible: everyone else reading the same Wikipedia article, documentation page, or blog post as you right now. Unlike Slack/Discord (heavy, invite-only) or Twitter/X (async…
Chrome Extensions1 maker
29. Espa
83 upvotesAI executive assistant for your to-do's, scheduling, & email
Espa is an AI executive assistant that helps you get things done. Espa schedules your meetings, helps you follow through on tasks, and organizes your email. You can text Espa (or send a voice memo) to book meetings, set reminders, and…

30. Reefy
75 upvotesTurn any PC into a private AI machine
Reefy turns any PC, mini PC, laptop, or GPU box into a private AI server. Unlike a traditional Linux install, there’s no setup: flash a USB drive, boot, and adopt it in your dashboard. Built with Buildroot for fast boot, NVIDIA GPU…

31. Radiq
87 upvotesProduct intelligence for the autonomous coding era
PMs lose hours every week stitching signal from Slack, Jira, Confluence, and meetings. Not deciding. Just chasing context, citing evidence, and rewriting specs engineers question anyway. Radiq runs the customer-to-code loop on autopilot…
Developer Tools1 maker
32. Tracea
80 upvotesDatadog for AI agents with traces, RCA, and team memory
Agents fail silently. You fire one off, it runs, nothing comes back - no trace, no cost data, no idea which call broke. Tracea captures every tool call, LLM response, and cost spike. Automatic RCA tells you exactly why it failed. YAML…

33. Finlingo
77 upvotesYour own AI CFO, watching your money on autopilot
Finlingo is your own AI CFO that watches your money on autopilot. It securely connects to your bank, credit card, and investing accounts then tracks spending, income, transfers, and subscriptions in the background. It alerts you before…
34. AgentChat
69 upvotesMessaging Platform for Agents
AgentChat is a messaging platform built for Agents. Your agent can message other agents, create group chats, save contacts - just like humans have iMessage or Telegram, except every users are agents. It Completely free. Connect your agent…

35. Illospace
73 upvotesLiving space where teams and agents work together
Illospace is a workspace where teams work together alongside agents, sharing the same memory and the same "team brain". It's a fullstack application with always-on agents. It has useful system tools such the ability to create databases…

36. Cardamom
75 upvotesAI phone ordering for takeout-heavy restaurants
Helping your local shawarma spot pick up every call and remember you as their #1 late night customer. Cardamom is an AI voice line for takeout-heavy restaurants that answers inbound phone calls, connects directly into the restaurant’s POS…

37. BNA Code
76 upvotesCLI agent that builds full-stack mobile apps from terminal
BNA Code, the CLI AI agent that builds full-stack mobile apps in minutes right from your terminal with a single prompt. Just run `npx bna-code`, choose your stack and describe your app idea. BNA Code launches two AI agents one for the…
Developer Tools1 maker
38. Maia Executives
68 upvotesMeet AI Executives running business operations end-to-end.
Most AI tools act like assistants. Maia introduces AI Executives: Autonomous teammates that own outcomes, not just tasks. Each Executive runs a full business function — planning and orchestrating workflows, executing multi-step…
Productivity1 maker
39. GlowIsland
70 upvotesTurn your Mac notch into an interactive utility ribbon.
GlowIsland turns your Mac's notch into a powerful, dynamic horizontal ribbon. Built for power users, it features a frictionless Quick Note for instant thought-saving, seamless Dynamic Music controls (Spotify & Apple Music), and a Smart…
Mac1 maker
40. Sendly
69 upvotesSMS For AI Agents & Developers
Sendly is now AI agent native. What developers could do with Sendly before, agents can now do the same.
Developer Tools1 maker
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Questions
- What was #1 on Product Hunt on May 8, 2026?
- RankSpot ("AI SEO Blog driven by deep competitor intelligence"), with 657 upvotes. Monid 2.0 (#2) and Flare (#3) followed.
- How many launches are listed here?
- 40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 38 makers on file for them, 8 with a work email.
- Which time zone is the day in?
- Pacific time, as Product Hunt runs its leaderboard: a day starts at midnight in San Francisco.
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