Product Hunt launches are a rite of passage for developer tools. Last week we finally did it — we launched BuyWhere , the AI-native product catalog API, on Product Hunt.

Here is the honest breakdown: the numbers, what we learned, and where we go from here.

The Numbers

Metric Result

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We went in hoping for visibility. What we got was real, substantive developer interest — people who actually tried the API, built with it, and told us what they thought.

What Worked

1. The MCP angle resonated immediately.

Our listing emphasized that BuyWhere ships as a native MCP server — plug it into Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client and start querying real product data in under a minute. Developers recognized this pattern instantly. Several comments specifically called out the zero-config setup as the reason they tried it.

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