What a Saturday on Product Hunt did for Toolport
Toolport finished #5 for the day, brought more than 500 people to the site, and picked up over 30 GitHub stars. A few notes on what that actually meant.
I launched Toolport on Product Hunt on a Saturday. By the end of the day it had finished at #5, the website had recorded more than 500 unique visitors, and the GitHub repo had picked up over 30 stars.
Those are not enormous internet numbers. For a small product I have been building myself, though, it was a very good day.
The website traffic was nice, but the GitHub stars meant more to me. Visiting a landing page takes a few seconds. Opening the repo, looking around, and deciding the project is worth following is a stronger signal. That is the part that makes an open-source launch feel real.
I also learned that launching on a weekend is not automatically a bad idea. I had heard plenty of advice about picking the perfect day and time. Maybe that matters when the goal is to win the whole day. My goal was simpler: put Toolport in front of people who have the problem it solves. Product Hunt did that.
The launch did not suddenly finish the product or answer every question about it. It gave me something more useful: evidence that the problem is familiar to people outside my own workflow. Developers are using more AI clients, connecting more MCP servers, and noticing the cost of loading every tool into every conversation.
So the number I am taking away is not really #5. It is the 500-plus people who were curious enough to visit, and the 30-plus who decided to keep watching the project. That is plenty of reason to keep making Toolport better.
Toolport is free and open source. It gives all of your AI clients one local gateway for MCP servers, with tools loaded only when they are needed.