Show your Product Hunt rank on your iPhone

Short answer: send your Product Hunt rank to WidgetDash with one HTTP request, then add the WidgetDash widget to your iPhone Home Screen or Lock Screen. It updates every time you push a new value, and it is free for up to 5 numbers.

Launch day on Product Hunt is a few intense hours where rank and upvotes change by the minute. The Product Hunt API returns upvote counts for the day's launches, so a script polling every few minutes can work out your rank and push both. Start a Pro Live Activity and the whole team can watch the climb in real time without hammering refresh.

Push it with one request

A source is created automatically the first time you push to it, so there is no setup step. Send your Product Hunt rank like this:

curl -X PUT https://api.widgetdash.app/api/v1/data/ph_rank \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_WRITE_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "display_name": "Product Hunt",
    "icon": "trophy.fill",
    "category": "Growth",
    "metrics": [
      { "label": "Rank", "value": "#3" },
      { "label": "Upvotes", "value": "412" }
    ]
  }'

• The value is a plain string, so format it however reads best: "$8,420", "99.98%", "+58".
• icon is an SF Symbol name. Here we use trophy.fill.
• Push to the same source_key again any time and the widget updates in place.

Add it to your iPhone

1. Sign up free and copy your WRITE key from the dashboard.
2. Install the WidgetDash iOS app (free on the App Store) and connect with the dashboard QR code or your write key.
3. Long-press the Home Screen, tap +, search WidgetDash and pick a size. Small shows your first source, so use Edit in the app to move this one to the top.

Lock Screen widgets (rectangular and round) are supported too, so your Product Hunt rank can sit right under the clock.

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