How do I find a thread?

Use the Product Hunt forum threads search source, or paste the thread link.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

Product Hunt Forum Thread Comments API and MCP — Comments, Votes and Reply Counts

Send a thread link or a forum/thread-slug and a max_items cap, and get the thread's top-level comments back as JSON: comment id, link, body text, votes, number of replies, whether it is pinned, when it was posted and the author.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a forum thread link or forum/thread-slug, and how many comments you want (up to 250)
You get back: top-level comments with text, author, votes, reply count and date
Coverage: Product Hunt records with a public page.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Product Hunt directly	Open the page on Product Hunt and scroll through the list	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Product Hunt changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what Product Hunt publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`session_id`	string	Id of this run, for tracing.
`kind`	string	Source type of the response.
`thread`	string	The thread you sent.
`max_items`	number	The cap on returned records, as run.
`start_page`	number	Page the run started from.
`partial`	boolean	True when the run stopped before reaching max_items.
`human`	string	Readable summary: the query, how many results came back and how many were found.
`total_points`	number	Points charged for the run.
`machine.total_items`	number	Number of comments returned in this response.
`machine.total_found`	number	Total matches reported by the platform, when it reports one.
`machine.first_item.id`	string	Comment id.
`machine.first_item.name`	string	Label of the form "Comment by <author>".
`machine.first_item.url`	string	Link to the comment.
`machine.first_item.comment_id`	string	Comment id, as a string.
`machine.first_item.body`	string	Comment text. Long comments are shortened in the sample.
`machine.first_item.votes_count`	number	Votes on the comment.
`machine.first_item.replies_count`	number	Number of replies to the comment.
`machine.first_item.is_pinned`	boolean	Whether the comment is pinned.
`machine.first_item.created_at`	string	Posting time, ISO 8601 with offset.
`machine.first_item.user`	object	Author: id, name, username, url, headline and image.
`machine.items[]`	array	Comments returned, same shape as first_item.
`machine.page_count`	number	Pages read for the run.
`machine.blocked`	boolean	Whether the platform refused the request.
`machine.proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Size of the data transferred for the run, in bytes.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "producthunt_forums_threads",
  "thread": "general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Product Hunt — forum thread comments\n\n- **Thread:** general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid\n- **Results:** 2 of 259 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 263.2 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "5191801",
      "name": "Comment by Mario Gomez",
      "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid?comment=5191801",
      "comment_id": "5191801",
      "body": "With my latest app, I only offer paid, because there are costs to run and I'm self-funded. In the past, I've used features to be my funnel and then the more premium features are paid. That's my train ",
      "votes_count": 52,
      "replies_count": 13,
      "is_pinned": false,
      "created_at": "2026-03-08T07:56:19-07:00",
      "user": {
        "id": "mario_gomez0710",
        "name": "Mario Gomez",
        "username": "mario_gomez0710",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@mario_gomez0710",
        "headline": null,
        "image": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/9521129/f18a27ff-c189-4d84-9a03-c0519689bc3a.jpeg"
      }
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "5191801",
        "name": "Comment by Mario Gomez",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid?comment=5191801",
        "comment_id": "5191801",
        "body": "With my latest app, I only offer paid, because there are costs to run and I'm self-funded. In the past, I've used features to be my funnel and then the more premium features are paid. That's my train ",
        "votes_count": 52,
        "replies_count": 13,
        "is_pinned": false,
        "created_at": "2026-03-08T07:56:19-07:00",
        "user": {
          "id": "mario_gomez0710",
          "name": "Mario Gomez",
          "username": "mario_gomez0710",
          "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@mario_gomez0710",
          "headline": null,
          "image": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/9521129/f18a27ff-c189-4d84-9a03-c0519689bc3a.jpeg"
        }
      },
      {
        "id": "5193190",
        "name": "Comment by swati paliwal",
        "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/p/general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid?comment=5193190",
        "comment_id": "5193190",
        "body": "Free should get the user to the “wow moment” Paid should help them go deeper, faster, with proof of repeat value How I see this basis my experience is free = audit, visibility, limited runs, core unde",
        "votes_count": 48,
        "replies_count": 7,
        "is_pinned": false,
        "created_at": "2026-03-09T03:28:07-07:00",
        "user": {
          "id": "swati_paliwal",
          "name": "swati paliwal",
          "username": "swati_paliwal",
          "url": "https://www.producthunt.com/@swati_paliwal",
          "headline": null,
          "image": "https://ph-avatars.imgix.net/8518541/bf7ad0dd-a961-471d-bd2c-9cfde10382b2.png"
        }
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 259,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 269530
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged. max_items caps how many records are returned and billed.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-producthunt-forums-threads \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"thread":"general/how-do-you-decide-what-features-should-be-free-and-what-should-be-paid","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Market and pricing research

Read how founders and users discuss a question, such as pricing or feature gating, in their own words.

Voice-of-customer sampling

Collect the most-voted comments on a thread and tag them by theme.

Monitoring a discussion

Re-run a thread to see how votes and replies change.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Product Hunt records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information Product Hunt shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Only top-level comments are returned; replies are counted in replies_count but not listed.
—Comments are written by people with public usernames. Use them as discussion content, and handle personal data in line with your own obligations.
—The comment body in the sample is shortened, so check for truncation before relying on long comments.

FAQ

Questions, answered

No. The source returns top-level comments with a reply count for each.

Related sources

Product Hunt forum threads search

Browse or search forum threads.

Product Hunt launch

One launch with votes, ranks and product.

Product Hunt collections search

Browse or search collections.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

Try product hunt forum thread comments on your own data

One request format across every source in the catalog.

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