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🔴 Live: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

#ai #opensource #showdev #tooling

OSS AI coding assistant Kilo Code is launching today. This is their 3rd launch on Product Hunt.

Last year, they crushed it: Two launches, ranked respectfully #5 Product of the Day and #1 Product of the Day -- among the best developer tools launched in 2025 in my opinion. No pressure.

How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt
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How Kilo Code launched on Product Hunt

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Today, they're launching Kilo Code Reviewer -- AI-powered code review agents that understand your codebase and catch bugs before merging.

I'm experimenting with something new, live blogging the launch for the next 24 hours.

Let's go.

12:01:AM:PST - going live

Step 1: getting featured. Check!

For the first 4 hours of the day, Product Hunt hides upvotes and sorts the homepage randomly. This should give products "a more distributed chance at exposure early." -- Source

Here's the direct link: Kilo Code on Product Hunt

01:01:AM:PST - new milestone: 100 upvotes

Product Hunt is a great place for developer tools to launch -- a place where many dev-first, open-source products like Kilo launched successfully:

  • Supabase (16 launches, 20 awards),
  • Langfuse (4 launches, 5 awards), or
  • Metabase (3 launches, 2 awards) for example.

02:57:AM:PST - new milestone: 150 upvotes

Product Hunt helps raise awareness, get feedback, and collect testimonials — the type of materials you can reuse later on for marketing purposes.

Take this comment for instance:

As a data engineer, I’ve been using Kilo Code reviewer and it’s surprisingly data aware, not just code aware. It helps me catch pipeline changes that would only break dashboards later.

-- Pedro Heyerdahl on Product Hunt

04:01:AM:PST - current status: #1 Product of the Day

Kilo Code is currently #1 Product of the Day, with 30 comments and 199 points. They reached 200 points 11 minutes later, at 04:12:AM:PST / 12:12:PM:UTC.

Fun fact: Today's Top 3 Products of the Day are open-source products. OSS ftw!

06:17:AM:PST - new milestone: 300 points

Kilo still is #1 Product of the Day and just reached 300 points.

07:00:AM:PST - new milestone: 331 upvotes

When Kilo first launched on Product Hunt a year ago, they got 330 points. They just surpassed it.

Product Hunt is about consistency. Launch, and keep launching.

09:39:AM:PST - new milestone: 400 points

Currently #1 Product of the Day, Kilo just reached 400 points. They reached 500 points 5 hours later, at 02:34:PM:PST / 10:34:PM:UTC.

11:44:PM:PST - new milestone: 600 points

Product Hunt is a 24-hour run! #1 Product of the Day, Kilo just reached 600 points.

12:00:AM:PST - wrapping up

That's a wrap!

Results

  • 636 points
  • 115 comments
  • #1 Product of the Day - featured in The Leaderboard, Product Hunt's daily newsletter
  • 1 ,002 new followers on Product Hunt (+43.3%)

Key takeaway

Launching multiple times create a tailwind.

When first launched a year ago, Kilo had 0 followers, ranked #5 Product of the Day. Later on, they launched their JetBrains extension and ranked #1 Product of the Day.

Launch, and keep launching.

Product Hunt pays off in the long term.

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