Product Hunt launches on May 12, 2026

Kelviq finished #1 with 520 upvotes, ahead of Open Vibe and Jotform Claude App. Here are the day's 40 top launches with 4,474 upvotes between them, across 23 categories, Productivity the busiest with 11.

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  1. Kelviq

    1. Kelviq

    520 upvotes

    Payments, tax, and billing for SaaS & AI companies

    Kelviq is the complete monetization platform for SaaS, AI, and digital products. It handles payments, global tax, subscriptions, usage-based billing, digital delivery, license keys, and compliance in one place, for 3.5% + 40¢ per…

    Paymentskelviq.com5 makers, 2 with emails
  2. Open Vibe

    2. Open Vibe

    311 upvotes

    Ship your SaaS with AI, without getting stuck

    Build the skills of a pro coder while you ship a real SaaS app! Open Vibe turns Claude Code (or your agent of choice) into the ultimate SaaS tutor, teaching the most important concepts while you build.

    Education1 maker
  3. Jotform Claude App

    3. Jotform Claude App

    254 upvotes

    Build, edit, and analyze forms directly in Claude

    Build, edit, and analyze forms directly inside Claude using simple conversations. Create forms, edit fields, add logic, search submissions, and get insights, all by describing what you want. No manual setup or switching tools.

  4. Hyperswitch Prism

    4. Hyperswitch Prism

    239 upvotes

    Library to plug-n-switch payment processors

    Prism is a stateless payments library that connects your app to multiple payment processors. You can integrate once and point to any payment processor; add fallbacks for redundancy, switch processors based on routing rules - all by…

  5. display.dev

    5. display.dev

    184 upvotes

    Publish agent-generated HTML behind company auth

    display.dev is the easiest way to publish agent-generated artifacts behind company authentication. One command gives your HTML and Markdown files a permanent URL. Your colleagues sign in securely via OTP or Google/Microsoft SSO, and drive…

    SaaSdisplay.dev1 maker, 1 with an email
  6. Free AI SEO Auditor

    6. Free AI SEO Auditor

    168 upvotes

    Audit your site for the AI search era. 100% Open Source

    Most SEO tools optimize for Google. This one scores you for the AI search era. Paste a URL — in ~30 seconds, get a 0–100 visibility score showing how ChatGPT, Claude, and Perplexity see your page, plus a copy-paste fix prompt you can hand…

    SEO1 maker
  7. Whale Starts

    7. Whale Starts

    147 upvotes

    The website builder that can copy any design on the web

    Whale Starts is a powerful website builder to design, clone, and launch sites with ease. Import any website, edit visually, and collaborate in real-time. just get your template URL from any website and whale will do the same so you can…

  8. HeyNews

    8. HeyNews

    139 upvotes

    Your newsletter, your voice, ready to publish in 5 minutes

    HeyNews learns from your newsletter archive, monitors your sources, and generates publish-ready drafts in your voice. Native Beehiiv & Kit; archive imports from Substack or any newsletter with a public archive. 14-day trial, plans from…

    Newslettersheynews.co1 maker, 1 with an email
  9. FileFlan

    9. FileFlan

    124 upvotes

    Instant private universal file sharing

    Phone browser to command line, Apple to Android, any device to any device. If it has a browser or a CLI, it works. P2P, end-to-end encrypted. No cookies, no logins, free.

    Productivityfileflan.com1 maker
  10. TrackTalent

    10. TrackTalent

    113 upvotes

    Track jobs, get matched, and land offers faster

    TrackTalent is a job platform for engineers to track applications, discover high-quality roles, and get referred faster. It combines a structured pipeline, community-sourced opportunities, and intelligent matching to help you focus on the…

    Hiring1 maker
  11. MiniCPM-V 4.6

    11. MiniCPM-V 4.6

    96 upvotes

    Ultra-efficient 1.3B vision-language model for mobile

    MiniCPM-V 4.6 is an open MLLM for image and video understanding on phones and consumer hardware, with mixed 4x/16x visual token compression, iOS/Android/HarmonyOS demos, and support for vLLM, SGLang, llama.cpp, and Ollama.

  12. knooth

    12. knooth

    100 upvotes

    Screen recording with AI-powered editing for Mac

    knooth is a screen recording and video editing app for macOS with AI-powered editing built in. Record your screen, camera, microphone, or even iPhone/iPad screens directly from your Mac. Edit with a built-in timeline supporting video…

  13. Habitvs

    13. Habitvs

    99 upvotes

    An Apple Health companion that grows with your habits

    Habitvs turns Apple Health data into a virtual companion named Kova. Sleep, recovery, activity, and mindfulness shape how Kova feels and reacts each day.

  14. Keeby for Windows

    14. Keeby for Windows

    94 upvotes

    Satisfying mechanical keyboard sounds, now on Windows

    Satisfying mechanical keyboard sounds for your Mac. Spatial audio, reactive visualizer, customizable switch profiles.

    Windowsgetkeeby.com1 maker
  15. DeepFrame

    15. DeepFrame

    94 upvotes

    Serious security before public exposure

    DeepFrame — a luxury security studio running authorized deep pentests for fast-moving web apps. Depth, clarity, retest.

    SaaS1 maker
  16. Whirr

    16. Whirr

    89 upvotes

    Ambient agent activity in your notch

    See what your AI agent is doing without switching windows. Whirr shows live status under the notch.

    Macgetwhirr.com1 maker
  17. Hopper

    17. Hopper

    101 upvotes

    First agentic development environment for mainframe/COBOL

    Hopper is the first agentic development environment for the mainframe. It's Cursor for mainframes. It combines a real TN3270 terminal, mainframe-aware panels for datasets, jobs, members, and spool output, and an AI agent that can operate…

    ProductivityYC F261 maker
  18. ContentPilots

    18. ContentPilots

    87 upvotes

    Turn any video into endless Shorts & Reels with AI

    Upload one video and ContentPilots AI cuts it into countless viral Shorts, Reels & TikToks — automatically. Writes your titles, tags, captions, and schedules everything to YouTube, TikTok, Instagram & LinkedIn in one click.

  19. Vexilo

    19. Vexilo

    86 upvotes

    Claude Code planner w/ 31 agents, 92 commands, + 121 skills

    Most Claude Code users discover 10% of the ecosystem — by accident. You burn tokens because nobody told you /context exists. Vexilo fixes that. → 92 commands organized by use case → 31 specialist agents (code-reviewer, tdd-guide…

    Productivityvexilo.app1 maker, 1 with an email
  20. Seer Platform

    20. Seer Platform

    85 upvotes

    The fastest way to go from idea to physical product

    Seer is built for inventors, offering an AI-powered framework to develop physical products. It can design 3D objects, generate orthographics, write firmware, and perform market and patent research. These tools work individually or through…

    Hardware1 maker
  21. zubhai

    21. zubhai

    77 upvotes

    LeetCode for AI Skills

    Stop watching AI videos. Start building. Zubhai gives you personalized AI challenges, verifies your work, and rewards your progress like a game.

  22. hackerDen

    22. hackerDen

    77 upvotes

    Collaborative hackathon workspace with visible contributions

    Peter Thiel said it best: “Good hackers find it unbearable to use bad tools.” After too many hackathons watching teams juggle Slack, Docs, Trello, and Discord, we realized context switching kills momentum. But another issue stood out too…

  23. TabGroup Vault

    23. TabGroup Vault

    77 upvotes

    Keep your tab groups safe, searchable, and restorable

    TabGroup Vault keeps every Chrome tab group safe, searchable, and ready to restore. Install the free extension or upgrade to Pro to unlock multiwindow session restore, auto-save, unlimited snapshots, and cloud sync.

    Chrome Extensionstabgroupvault.com1 maker
  24. Pixcode

    24. Pixcode

    76 upvotes

    A self-hosted control room for AI coding agents

    Pixcode is a self-hosted web UI and desktop/server control room for Claude Code, Cursor CLI, OpenAI Codex, Gemini CLI, Qwen Code, and OpenCode with multi-agent orchestration, files, shell, Git, API keys, Telegram, notifications, plugins…

  25. EmailTemple

    25. EmailTemple

    78 upvotes

    The AI studio for creating high conversion, on-brand emails

    Most AI email tools spit out generic HTML you still have to wrestle into Mailchimp. EmailTemple generates ESP-native templates — Mailchimp's editable regions, ActiveCampaign blocks, MailerLite blocks — with your brand kit baked in.…

    Newslettersemailtemple.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  26. Long Horizon

    26. Long Horizon

    71 upvotes

    Your coding agent writes the feature and runs the tests

    Your coding agent writes the feature — let it test it too. Long Horizon runs real browser tests and produces shareable execution reports with logs, screenshots, and network detail for confident feature delivery.

    Software Engineeringlonghorizon.dev1 maker, 1 with an email
  27. MusicMinutes

    27. MusicMinutes

    76 upvotes

    Connecting small music artists to Spotify curators

    For independent artists to get the contacts for 24,000 vetted Spotify playlists so you can submit/pitch your music direct and keep your network forever! The software combines a constantly updated contacts directory with the metrics that…

    Music1 maker
  28. VKO1

    28. VKO1

    74 upvotes

    A pad-based visual performance instrument for Apple products

    VKO1 is a pad-based visual performance app for iPhone, iPad and Apple Silicon Mac. AutoMix, 53 real-time effects, 25 GPU visualizers, MIDI, Ableton Link.

  29. Prism protocol

    29. Prism protocol

    74 upvotes

    Turn credit into tradable risk

    PRISM (Programmable Risk & Income Structured Markets) is a protocol that changes credit into structured, tradable risk layers. Users choose exposure (Prime, Core, Alpha) within pooled credit vaults instead of putting money into individual…

    Fintechprismprotocol.dev1 maker
  30. ARKAD Wallet

    30. ARKAD Wallet

    73 upvotes

    The budgeting app you’ll actually use.

    Most finance apps are built for people who already have it figured out. ARKAD Wallet is different. Speak your expenses out loud, set real budgets by category, track your goals, and see your full net worth - all in one clean app. No bank…

    Productivityarkadwallet.com
  31. Khaos Brain

    31. Khaos Brain

    72 upvotes

    Local predictive memory for AI agents

    Khaos Brain is a local-first predictive memory system for AI agents. It turns task experience, preferences, workflow lessons, and skill-use evidence into visible Git-versioned cards. Agents retrieve relevant cards before work, write…

  32. Klyxshot

    32. Klyxshot

    71 upvotes

    The screenshot tool that thinks with you

    A Windows screenshot tool that captures, edits, and understands. Pro adds AI-powered OCR, translation, image analysis through Gemini. Free forever for capture/edit/lasso/multi-monitor. $4.99/mo for the smart stuff.

  33. Whisper Island by Coddo

    Voice transcription lives in the Mac notch

    Whisper Island brings voice transcription to every app on your Mac.You speak, the text is pasted into the active app: Slack, Notion, your IDE, your browser, your mail. Anywhere, without leaving the window you're in. The overlay lives in…

  34. Devkat

    34. Devkat

    68 upvotes

    shareaura/strava overlays for ai coding sessions

    We track your ai coding sessions and make overlays for you to post on social media.

  35. Auvylo

    35. Auvylo

    65 upvotes

    Turn astrology and Four Pillars into AI personas you talk to

    Auvylo turns Four Pillars and birth charts into AI personas you can talk to. Create personas for yourself or people in your life, then explore inner motives, emotional patterns, compatibility, and recurring relationship dynamics. Web and…

  36. MY AI Agent

    36. MY AI Agent

    71 upvotes

    AI assembles a 3-10 agent team from one sentence

    Hire one AI as a teammate, or let AI design a 3-10 agent team from a single goal. Built Stop asking AI to do things — hire a team. Type one goal. In 30 seconds, AI assembles a 3-10 specialist team with personas, models, and tools.…

  37. Bouquin & Ink

    37. Bouquin & Ink

    67 upvotes

    Write in your own voice with a muse to inspire you

    Bouquin & Ink is a manuscript editor built for writers. Voice preservation, continuity tracking, immersive writing themes, and voice verification provenance— write in your own voice.

    Writing1 maker
  38. PrometAI - Entrepreneur Journey

    Every stage of building a business, finally in one place.

    PrometAI started as a business plan generator. This launch is different. We added the Entrepreneur Journey: a multi-stage roadmap covering everything a founder actually faces. Idea validation, brand identity, legal setup, team building…

    Tech1 maker
  39. Handinger

    39. Handinger

    24 upvotes

    Put agents to work and automate repetitive tasks

    Handinger gives your company AI agents that actually get work done. Connect your tools, such as CRM, tasks, email, calendar, and files, then create specialized agents for the jobs your team repeats every day. Each agent runs in the cloud…

    Developer Toolshandinger.com1 maker, 1 with an email
  40. Menuthere

    40. Menuthere

    23 upvotes

    Skip the aggregator. Own every order

    Launch your restaurant's own delivery app with Petpooja POS integration, real-time orders & analytics. Trusted by 600+ restaurants across India.

    Androidmenuthere.com1 maker, 1 with an email

This day's categories

Questions

What was #1 on Product Hunt on May 12, 2026?
Kelviq ("Payments, tax, and billing for SaaS & AI companies"), with 520 upvotes. Open Vibe (#2) and Jotform Claude App (#3) followed.
How many launches are listed here?
40: the top of the day's leaderboard, ranked launches first. Junior has 41 makers on file for them, 9 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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