Ordana vs Product Hunt: A Launch Day vs a Listing That Keeps Working
Product Hunt is where you launch to early adopters. Ordana is where you list your SaaS as a widget other products build in. Here is the honest breakdown of when each one wins.
Choose Product Hunt if…
Choose Product Hunt when you're launching something new and can rally people on the day: it is still the biggest single burst of early-adopter attention a tech product can get.
Choose Ordana if…
Choose Ordana when you want users after launch day: list one feature as a widget, and products whose customers need it add it to theirs, with every sale split automatically. Most startups should do both.
What Product Hunt does
Product Hunt is the best-known launch platform for new tech products. A maker posts a product on a chosen day, the community upvotes and comments, and a daily leaderboard ranks the launches. A strong launch can earn a badge such as Product of the Day and puts the product in front of a large audience of early adopters and other makers.
Its strength is concentration: a well-prepared launch gets a burst of attention, feedback and signups in a short window, and the product keeps a permanent page where people can follow it and leave reviews. Its limit has the same shape. Discovery is front-loaded on launch day, the audience is browsing what's new rather than looking for something to build into their own product, and the result depends heavily on preparation and a community that shows up.
What Ordana does
Ordana is a free directory of widget integrations for SaaS. You list one feature of your product as a widget, with your price, your free uses and the share a host keeps set before anyone integrates. Any startup on Ordana can add it to its product without an application or an approval; its users then sign up and pay inside the widget, and Ordana splits each sale between you and the host automatically.
You build the widget with your own coding agent from a prompt Ordana writes: it asks you about eight questions, each with its recommendation, and builds a clickable preview in your own codebase. Ordana never reads your repository. Listing is free; Ordana takes 10% of each widget sale, from the owner's share, never the host's.
Side by side
Product Hunt vs Ordana
| Feature | Product Hunt | Ordana |
|---|---|---|
| Primary job | Launch a product to early adopters on one day | List one feature as a widget other products integrate |
| Who finds you | People browsing today's launches | Founders looking for a capability to add to their product |
| What a listing turns into | Upvotes, comments and some signups | Products that add your widget and bring you their users |
| How long it works | Mostly launch day and the days after | As long as you stay listed |
| What you need ready | A polished launch: page, visuals, a maker comment, people to engage | One feature that works on its own inside another product |
| Where users meet your product | On your website, after clicking through | Inside the host's product, where they sign up and pay |
| Revenue | Not part of it | Each widget sale split automatically; the host keeps the share you set |
| Timing | You pick a launch day and prepare for it | No launch day; list whenever your widget is ready |
| Cost | Free to launch | Free to list; 10% of widget sales, from your share |
When Product Hunt is the right call
- You're launching something new and want a burst of early adopters, feedback and attention in one day.
- You have, or can build, a community that will show up and engage on launch day.
- Your product is a whole app for consumers or makers, not a feature another product would build in.
- You want a public product page that collects followers and reviews.
When Ordana is the right call
- You want users after launch day, from products your customers already use.
- You have one feature that works on its own inside another product.
- You'd rather earn from every sale inside a partner's product than chase a leaderboard position.
- You don't have a launch-day audience to rally yet.
How listing works
List your SaaS as a widget
Free, no approval queue, and the listing keeps working after launch day.
- Step 1
Sign up with your website
Free. Ordana reads your public site to set up your startup profile — about a minute.
- Step 2
Create your widget with your coding agent
Copy Ordana's prompt into Claude Code, Codex, Cursor or similar. It asks you about eight questions, each with its recommendation, builds a clickable preview in your own codebase and hands back one block you paste into Ordana. Ordana never reads your repository.
- Step 3
Set your offer and list it
Pick what share the host keeps, press List, and share your link and your “Add to your product” badge. You can unlist at any time.
| A launch directory | Ordana | |
|---|---|---|
| What you get | A post on launch day | A standing listing other products can integrate |
| Who finds you | Early adopters browsing that day | Founders looking for a capability to add to their product |
| What happens next | Upvotes, some signups, then the list moves on | Startups add your widget and become partners |
| How long it lasts | About a day at the top | As long as you stay listed |
| Cost | Free, with paid boosts on some | Free to list |
Launch directories like Product Hunt and BetaList are good at one thing — a spike of early adopters on launch day — and you should still launch there. Ordana does a different job: it keeps working after the spike, because what you list is something other products build in. How listing works →
FAQ
Ordana vs Product Hunt: your questions
Pricing
Free to start
Free to join. No subscription. Pay only when money flows.
Prices exclude VAT.
Widgets
€0
List your widget and let other SaaS put it in front of their users.
- List your widget in the Ordana directory
- Your own share page and an “Add to your product” badge
- Ordana announces your widget on LinkedIn when it’s listed
- AI suggestions of products whose users fit your widget
- Live, broken or off: see the health of every integration
- Ordana sells it, takes payment and pays you and the host
Bounties
€5–€1,000 / 100 users
Pay the products that add your widget for the people who use it.
- A paid trial for the products you approve
- You set the price per 100 users and the trial length
- Products earn only for people who actually use your widget
- Products are paid automatically every month
- Withdraw anything not locked in a running trial, any time
Collaborations
€0
Find partners, sign, and share revenue, without paying upfront.
- AI partner search and the collaboration directory
- A launch page that recruits partners for you
- Contracts, signatures and renewals
- Revenue-share rules, invoicing and Stripe payouts
- Revenue-drop alerts and refund netting
Ordana sells your widget, takes payment and pays everyone automatically. Our fee comes out of the widget owner’s share only — the host always keeps the share you set.
Free to join. Pay only when revenue flows.