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Best new products on Product Hunt — August 17, 2026

Product Hunt leaderboard for 2026-08-17 (Pacific Time)

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🏆 Winner of the Day
Highest-voted launch on 2026-08-17
Meridian
Don't let your work go unnoticed. Get promoted!
▲ 406 💬 73 by @rohanrecommends ProductivityOpen SourceDeveloper Tools
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The day in review

Meridian won August 17, 2026 with 406 votes, 30 more than runner-up Omni by xpander. It was also the most discussed launch in the top ten, with 73 comments.

Activity was in line with the previous week: 181 launches and 3,617 votes, against a daily average of 169 launches and 3,381 votes. Artificial Intelligence was the most common category, on 55 of the 181 launches. SaaS grew the most against the previous week: 34 launches, against a daily average of 24.

Summary written from this day’s data.
That Day's Snapshot
181
launches
55
Artificial Intelligence
3,617
total votes
481
total comments
✓ Artificial Intelligence represented 30% of that day's launches
Categories That Day
Artificial Intelligence
5530%
of that day's launches
Productivity
4123%
of that day's launches
SaaS
3419%
of that day's launches
Developer Tools
3117%
of that day's launches
GitHub
2514%
of that day's launches
Marketing
2011%
of that day's launches
That day's category distribution
Artificial Intelligence
55
Productivity
41
SaaS
34
Developer Tools
31
GitHub
25
Marketing
20
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Top Launches That Day
#2
Omni by xpander
Stop babysitting your AI agents
▲ 376 💬 28 by @benln SlackArtificial IntelligenceVirtual Assistants
#3
Clears
Move beyond AI coding to Agentic Software Delivery
▲ 358 💬 35 by @benln Developer ToolsArtificial Intelligence
#4
Vendo
Let your users build their own features inside your product
▲ 336 💬 58 by @garrytan Open SourceSaaSDeveloper ToolsGitHub
#5
Scholé Scenarios
Learn by doing
▲ 171 💬 17 by @zaczuo Artificial IntelligenceOnline Learning
#6
OpenTrade
Open-source trading harness for Claude Code / Codex.
▲ 154 💬 19 by @garrytan Open SourceInvestingArtificial IntelligenceGitHub
#7
Treg
OpenRouter for tools with 2,600 APIs, 0% markup
▲ 148 💬 8 by @jasonzhou1993 APIDeveloper ToolsArtificial IntelligenceGitHub
#8
Replay QA for Teams
Autonomous QA for teams who ship faster than they can verify
▲ 147 💬 8 by @fmerian Developer Tools
#9
Startup Program by Recall.ai
Startup program for meeting recording infrastructure
▲ 133 💬 7 by @garrytan APIMeetingsSDK
#10
Skriptr
AI workspace for students
▲ 119 💬 13 by @rolf_bekkelund WritingEducationOnline Learning
#11
Samepage Artifacts
A context-aware, connected writing surface for product teams
▲ 115 💬 14 by @rrhoover ProductivitySaaSArtificial Intelligence
#12
Hansel by Seedling
Your email, your server, your keys so you're not locked out
▲ 105 💬 4 by @kemone_phillips EmailProductivityPrivacyGitHub
#13
Bulbthings
The AI platform to track and manage your physical assets
▲ 104 💬 4 by @leslie_depond ProductivityAPIArtificial Intelligence
#14
TinyFish
The web operating layer for AI agents
▲ 97 💬 3 by @poojagrg Developer ToolsArtificial Intelligence
#15
envfix
A tiny .env doctor for Node.js projects
▲ 84 💬 3 by @gokhanozgezer Open SourceDeveloper ToolsGitHub
#16
Blender Agent Bridge
Open-source MCP bridge for Blender AI workflows
▲ 82 💬 2 by @callmejones Open SourceArtificial IntelligenceGitHub3D Modeling
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