Invest in your taste. Regulated exchange to trade relevance.
Forum turns anything — AI, pickleball, a politician — into a tradable asset. We index online engagement around topics and let you go long or short on their relevance over time. Unlike a prediction market, there's no ending event here. Just increases and decreases in popularity over time.
Hey Product Hunt 👋 I'm Owen from Forum.
For context, I went to Northwestern and used to work at a hedge fund. A lot of people don't know enough about the stock market to get involved. It's hard to stay up-to-date with company financials (what NVDA's revenue was last year? idk), market sentiment, and everything else that goes into price movements (what the CEO said yesterday, what sell-side note just dropped, what market factors are rotating, etc.). So, there's a huge swath of Americans that don't bother participating.
But most people DO know how popular their favorite artist is. Maybe you spotted them early and watched them grow. Most people ALSO know how relevant their favorite movie is or SWEAR they predicted the fall-off of last year's trend.
On Forum, we're creating an entirely new market around this idea. Instead of trading on the financials of different companies, you trade on the popularity of different topics. We track engagement across the internet and turn it into a tradable asset.
You can:
- Long your favorite artist, movie, creator, film, or trend. Spot the next big thing.
- Short anything you think is overhyped.
- Get insurance for ad spend (hedge relevance) if you are a creator, studio, label, or anyone who manages a brand.
- See what's truly relevant across the internet (beyond your own feed).
We're working with regulators (the CFTC) to bring real-money trading to the US. But in the meantime, we're beta testing with weekly prizes for the top 3 traders on our leaderboard.
I'd love for you all to try it out!
About Forum on Product Hunt
“Invest in your taste. Regulated exchange to trade relevance.”
Forum launched on Product Hunt on February 24th, 2026 and earned 113 upvotes and 9 comments, placing #17 on the daily leaderboard. Forum turns anything — AI, pickleball, a politician — into a tradable asset. We index online engagement around topics and let you go long or short on their relevance over time. Unlike a prediction market, there's no ending event here. Just increases and decreases in popularity over time.
On the analytics side, Forum competes within Web App, Social Media and Investing — topics that collectively have 237.1k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Forum performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Forum?
Forum was hunted by Garry Tan. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
For a complete overview of Forum including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
Garry Tan