How to find the founders behind Product Hunt launches and their emails.

Makers vs hunters: who you're looking for

Each Product Hunt launch shows two kinds of people, and they matter differently for outreach:

• Makers are the people who built the product: founders, co-founders and early team members. A launch can list several. If you want to talk to the company, these are your contacts.
• The hunter is the person who posted the launch. Sometimes that's a maker. Often it's someone from outside the team who is active in the community. Hunters can be useful contacts in their own right, for example if you run a community, a newsletter or a launch service, but they usually don't speak for the product's company.

In practice: write to the makers about the product, and treat the hunter as a separate list if they're relevant to you.

The manual way

For a handful of launches you can do this yourself:

1. Open a day's leaderboard on Product Hunt.
2. Open a launch and note the product name, tagline and website.
3. Click through to each maker's profile and copy their headline and any LinkedIn or X links.
4. Visit the product website and look for an email on the contact, about or team page.
5. Repeat for each launch and each day.

That's a lot of tabs per launch, and a single busy day has many launches. For a week or a month of launches, a scraper does the same steps for you.

1. Pick a date range

In QuickExtract's Product Hunt scraper, choose a From and To date, or use a preset: Today, Yesterday, Last 7 days or Last 30 days. A range can cover up to 62 days. For a longer period, run it as two or more ranges.

Then set how many launches to take from each day's leaderboard, from 1 to 200 (default 40). A lower number keeps you to the launches that ranked best that day. A higher number reaches further down the leaderboard, where you'll find smaller teams that may be easier to start a conversation with.

Press Start, and a pinned tab reads each day's leaderboard. It keeps running even if you close the dashboard, and you can see the time elapsed and time left. If you're already looking at a Product Hunt page, you can right-click and choose Scan this Product Hunt page.

2. Set the options

3. Maker profiles and social links

With profile reading on, each launch row includes every maker's name, and the first maker becomes the row's contact. For makers you get the profile link, headline, LinkedIn, X and any public email on their profile. For the hunter you get the name, profile, LinkedIn and headline.

You also get the product's own X, LinkedIn and GitHub links, plus its name, tagline, description, topics, upvotes, comments, pricing (Free, Freemium or Paid), launch date, website and thumbnail.

The LinkedIn and X links are useful even when you have an email. You can check the founder's background before you write, follow them, or reach out on the channel they use most.

4. Website and public emails

QuickExtract looks for an email in this order:

1. The product website. It checks the homepage and up to 8 likely pages, such as contact, about and team, and picks the best address. At an early-stage startup, that's often a founder's own address or a hello@ inbox the founders read.
2. The maker's public email. If the website has no email, it uses the email the first maker published on their profile, if there is one.

Both are free. Company emails and any publicly available email cost nothing in QuickExtract.

5. Verified person emails for makers

Sometimes the website only has a support address and the maker hasn't published an email. For those, the email finder can look up the maker's work email at the product's domain, such as [email protected] for a maker named Maya at an example product called Ledgerly.

• Every email is verified three times: format and domain, mailbox, and a dedicated catch-all check.
• One credit is used per valid email found. If no valid email is found, there's no charge.
• Credits cost $29 for 2,000, about 1.45¢ each.

Select only the launches you actually plan to contact before you run it. For the manual approach to the same problem, see how to find someone's work email from their name and company.

6. Personalize with the launch

A Product Hunt launch gives you something specific to say, and that's the main reason this list works. Use the fields you collected:

• Launch date, so you can write while the launch is recent.
• Tagline, which shows how the founders describe their own product.
• Topics, to group launches by market and write one version per group.
• Pricing, which hints at the business model: Free, Freemium or Paid.
• Maker headline, which tells you their role.

Keep it short, mention the launch once, and make your ask relevant to a team that just launched. Founders get a lot of messages right after a launch, so a specific, useful note stands out more than volume.

7. Export

Filter to the With email tab, select the launches you want and export:

• CSV: 37 columns in UTF-8 with a BOM, named like producthunt-<dates>-<n>-launches.csv.
• TXT: one email per line.
• Copy emails to the clipboard.

Mapping guides: Product Hunt to CSV and Product Hunt to Google Sheets. If you use Quickprosp for cold email, connect it with your API key to save each run as a list and add it to a campaign. Leads you've already sent to are skipped.