There’s a Product Hunt for literally everything

Here’s one sign your startup is getting somewhere: The name of your startup is used to describe other companies, as in, “It’s like Uber, but for chicken nuggets!”

The rapid rise of product-promoting website Product Hunt has led to more than a dozen websites billing themselves as “Product Hunt for (insert thing here).”

At least people are increasingly describing their products like that on Product Hunt. Five “Product Hunt for” sites popped up during a recent casual scroll down Product Hunt.

The X for Y type of analogy, long used in Silicon Valley, is often employed these days using fast-growing companies like Uber and Airbnb. Now Product Hunt could be approaching that level of hype. Without question, at least a handful of marketers think the Product Hunt concept is pervasive enough to use in an explanation of their companies.

And the Product Hunt team is just fine with the co-opting of its name for site descriptions, and seeing them pop up. Heck, there’s even a “Product Hunt for X” collection on Product Hunt.

“We welcome it, and we watch it to learn,” Erik Torenberg, a member of Product Hunt’s founding team, told VentureBeat.

In any case, here are the five “Product Hunt for” sites I found after a quick scan on Product Hunt today:

1) Product Hunt for indie games

Gamamia‘s website says you can “find, share, and discuss indie games.” Submissions must name all the platforms that games can run on. Games that received plentiful upvotes on the site this week include Even the Stars, Game about Squares, and Iron Snout.

2) Product Hunt for GitHub

Git Hunt surfaces repositories of code hosted on GitHub. The site also lists the primary language for each project listed. Today git-stats, gulper, and notablemind were at the top of Git Hunt. “For how I started Git Hunt, I would regard this as a typical-Sunday side project,” Kchan Zen, one of the two people behind Git Hunt, wrote on the site’s about page. “I finished it in one night using Node.js and PHP, I submitted it to Product Hunt as soon as I successfully run it in my VPS.”

3) Product Hunt for books

“See what the world is reading” is the slogan for Chasebook. The site conveniently includes the name of the author of each book that appears on the site. Books that received upvotes last week included Atul Gawande’s “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End” and Nir Eyal’s “Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products.”

4) Product Hunt for new places

Nuu focuses on geography — cities, specifically. Cities and place types are included with every submission, and after people sign in, they can tell Nuu they have visited places or bookmark it as a place to visit. It’s possible to look at submissions by city. Belfast’s The Laboratory coworking space, The Italian Job craft beer pub in London, and San Francisco’s Hawker Fare Asian fusion restaurant had the most prominent positions on Nuu today.

5) Product Hunt for techno tracks

On Track Guru, users can submit songs and label them with specific genres. But you can decide for yourself when it comes to song genre — and weigh in with a comment, of course — because on this site, users embed songs from services like YouTube and SoundCloud. The top tracks yesterday were Locked Groove’s “Enigma (Scuba’s Warehouse Mix),” ROD’s “Truck One,” and Kaelan’s “Void.” Happy listening.