Product Hunt Make integrationAutomate Product Hunt with Make.
Can Make pick up every new Product Hunt post for you? Yes. The Product Hunt Make integration offers 2 modules, one scheduled trigger and one action. This guide shows how to link your account and build a first scenario that runs on its own.
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What can the Product Hunt Make integration automate?
The Product Hunt Make integration links your Product Hunt account to Make, a no-code tool where you chain apps into automations called scenarios. It gives you 2 modules: Watch Posts, a trigger that picks up new posts, and Execute a GraphQL Query, an action that sends Product Hunt a query you write. GraphQL is the query language Product Hunt answers in: you spell out exactly which data you want back.
Share new launches with your team. Watch Posts catches each new post, and a module from your chat tool drops it where your team talks. A product team keeps launches in view without opening the site.
Keep a launch log. Send every post that Watch Posts finds into a table, for instance through the Airtable Make integration, so your marketing team can sort and comment on it later.
Ask Product Hunt for exactly what you need. Execute a GraphQL Query runs the query you write, authorized by your connection. A growth analyst can start it from another app and store the answer next to their own data.
What Make does not offer for this app: no instant trigger, no search module and no Make an API Call module, so the GraphQL action is your only way to reach beyond new posts. n8n often has a node for the same app, and the n8n vs Make comparison sets out how the two tools differ. For a wider look at Make itself, read the Make review.
How do you connect Product Hunt to Make?
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Add a Product Hunt module
In your scenario, add Watch Posts or Execute a GraphQL Query, then click Create a connection. A connection is your Product Hunt account linked to Make one time.
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Name the connection
This step is optional. A clear name, such as the account or the team it belongs to, helps when several people build scenarios in the same Make organization and pick from the same list.
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Authorize Make and save
Depending on what the window asks, approve Make on the Product Hunt page that opens or paste the key Product Hunt gives you. Then click Save and the module is ready to fill.
Your first scenario with Product Hunt
GoalWhen a new post appears on Product Hunt, Make runs the GraphQL query you wrote, using data taken from that post.
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Create the scenario
Open the Scenarios page in Make, create a new scenario and click the + on the canvas. A scenario is the automation you build, one module after another.
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Add Watch Posts
Search for Product Hunt, pick Watch Posts and click Create a connection to link your account. This trigger hands each new post to the next module as a bundle, one item at a time.
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Add the GraphQL query
Click the + to the right of Watch Posts, choose Execute a GraphQL Query and write your query. Map values from the post by picking them from the data of the previous module.
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Test with Run once
Click Run once. Make runs the scenario a single time, and you can read the bundles each module received to check that the query returned what you expected.
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Schedule and switch it on
On the first module, open the clock: the default schedule is every 15 minutes. Keep it or change it, then switch the scenario on so Make checks Product Hunt by itself.
What starts a Product Hunt scenario
1 module starts a scenario when something happens in Product Hunt. A scheduled trigger is checked by Make on the scenario's schedule; an instant one is called by Product Hunt as soon as it happens.
Watch Posts
Scheduled triggerIn Make“Triggers when a new post is posted.”
At each check, Watch Posts picks up the posts published on Product Hunt since the last one and passes each post to the next module as its own bundle. You get fresh launches flowing into your tools without refreshing the site.
What the Product Hunt action does
Product Hunt gives you 1 module. For each one: what it does for you, when to reach for it, and what to watch out for.
Execute a GraphQL Query
ActionIn Make“Performs an arbitrary authorized GraphQL query.”
Execute a GraphQL Query sends Product Hunt a query you write yourself, signed with your connection, and returns the answer to the next module. It opens every request the ready-made trigger does not cover.
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