# MakerHunt
> Weekly launch platform for makers. Ship your product, collect votes, and get in front of early adopters.

MakerHunt is a weekly launch platform for makers and AI builders. Ship your product, collect votes during a Monday–Sunday hunt, and stay discoverable in a permanent project directory with launch stories and Hall of Fame recognition.

## Quick facts

- Homepage: https://makerhunt.io/
- Launch plans: Free ($0, badge required), Nofollow ($0, links stay nofollow), Premium ($19 one-time, dofollow + sidebar spotlight while live)
- Premium Launcher: $300/month license key for premium launches across six partner platforms
- Contact: hi@makerhunt.io
- X / Twitter: https://x.com/praneetbrar
- This file: https://makerhunt.io/llms.txt
- Alias: https://makerhunt.io/llm.txt

## What MakerHunt offers

- Weekly Monday UTC launches with 7-day homepage competition
- Permanent project pages with SEO-focused listings
- Launch blog posts and social promotion for premium launches
- Hall of Fame for weekly top-3 winners
- Browseable directory, categories, and related-project discovery
- Optional Premium Launcher license for multi-platform premium launches

## Product & launch

- [Submit a project](https://makerhunt.io/submit): Launch on MakerHunt — Free, Nofollow, or Premium plans
- [Pricing](https://makerhunt.io/pricing): Compare Free, Nofollow, and Premium launch plans
- [Premium Launcher](https://makerhunt.io/premium-launches): Launch premium projects with a license key across the network

## Growth tools & monetization

- [Advertise](https://makerhunt.io/advertise): Hero and sidebar ad spots for product visibility
- [Posting Dude](https://makerhunt.io/distribution/posting-dude): Done-for-you content and distribution for founders

## Discovery surfaces

- [Browse projects](https://makerhunt.io/projects): Searchable directory of launched and live products
- [Launch stories](https://makerhunt.io/launches): Index of MakerHunt launch write-ups
- [Blog](https://makerhunt.io/blog): Guides, news, and founder resources
- [Studio](https://makerhunt.io/studio): Editorial and product studio articles
- [Hall of Fame](https://makerhunt.io/hall-of-fame): Weekly competition winners archive
- [Launch Guide](https://makerhunt.io/launch-guide): Step-by-step playbook for product launches
- [100+ Places to Launch](https://makerhunt.io/places-to-launch): Curated list of directories and launch platforms
- [FAQ](https://makerhunt.io/faq): Answers about launches, votes, and plans
- [Help Center](https://makerhunt.io/help): Support docs and common how-tos
- [Changelog](https://makerhunt.io/changelog): Product updates and platform changes

## Legal

- [Terms](https://makerhunt.io/terms): Terms of use
- [Privacy](https://makerhunt.io/privacy): Privacy policy
- [Cookies](https://makerhunt.io/cookies): Cookie policy
- [Contact](https://makerhunt.io/contact): Reach the MakerHunt team

## AI-friendly Markdown (per entity & page)

Append `.md` to any public HTML URL for a citation-ready Markdown document (YAML front matter, About, Overview, FAQ, Links).

Entity patterns:

- Projects: https://makerhunt.io/project/{slug}.md
- Launch stories: https://makerhunt.io/launches/{slug}.md
- Blog posts: https://makerhunt.io/blog/{slug}.md
- Studio articles: https://makerhunt.io/studio/{slug}.md
- Founders: https://makerhunt.io/founder/{slug}.md
- User profiles: https://makerhunt.io/user/{id}.md

Static & index pages:

- Homepage: https://makerhunt.io/index.md
- Browse projects: https://makerhunt.io/projects.md
- Blog index: https://makerhunt.io/blog.md
- Launches index: https://makerhunt.io/launches.md
- Studio index: https://makerhunt.io/studio.md
- Submit: https://makerhunt.io/submit.md
- Pricing: https://makerhunt.io/pricing.md
- Launch guide: https://makerhunt.io/launch-guide.md
- Places to launch: https://makerhunt.io/places-to-launch.md
- FAQ: https://makerhunt.io/faq.md
- Hall of Fame: https://makerhunt.io/hall-of-fame.md
- Changelog: https://makerhunt.io/changelog.md
- Terms / Privacy / Cookies / Contact: append .md to the HTML path

Examples:

- https://makerhunt.io/project/example-slug.md
- https://makerhunt.io/pricing.md
- https://makerhunt.io/launch-guide.md

## Site discovery

- Sitemap: https://makerhunt.io/sitemap.xml
- Robots: https://makerhunt.io/robots.txt

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This file describes MakerHunt itself (identity, pricing, hubs). Use per-entity and per-page `.md` URLs for catalog content and static pages.