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Starvling
Feed a product or watch it die. Rank can't be bought.
Every product here is a pixel creature with 48 hours to live. Anyone can feed one, free, once a day, no signup. Five feeds a day keeps it alive. Nobody feeds it and it dies in public, in a graveyard that never gets cleaned. $9 to list. Rank can't be bought.Every listed product is a pixel creature that starves without daily feeds, dies in public, and can be brought back for $9.
Hi Product Hunt. I'm Luca, 50, full-time job, two kids, first line of code in March 2025. I build in the margins, evenings and weekends. When home is quiet.
In August a board turned up where you pay to sit at the top. About $132K in three days, by the founder's own count. Then the copies came, about 500 of them at the last count, and the median one has made about $20. What stuck with me wasn't the money. It's that all of them sell what every launch platform sells: one day of attention, then a listing nobody opens again.
So I built the opposite, in a few hours between a kitchen table and an airport lounge, with Claude Code.
On Starvling your product is a pixel creature with 100 HP and 48 hours to live. Anyone can feed it. One click, free, no signup, once per person per day, +10 HP. Five feeds a day and it breaks even. Nobody shows up and it dies in public, gets an epitaph and goes in the graveyard, which never gets cleaned out.
Rank is not for sale. Feeds decide who lives. Money buys a seat and a second chance, never a position. $9, once, and the price never moves, so nobody can pay more than you. Not even me.
Four of the creatures on the board are mine (PairHabit, BurnoutRadar, Kikko and Fatto) and they're on the same clock as everyone else's. PairHabit, mine, was first on the board and is first in line to die. The countdown on its page is real, and I'm not feeding it myself to save it.
Every feed ends with one ask: tell someone. That share carries the creature's live card and lands on the maker's page, and from there every visit is a counted click to the maker's own site.
Your job is five feeders a day. The board does the rest.
But you know what? I have no idea whether strangers will click a free button every day to keep somebody else's product alive. This could be a graveyard by Thursday.
If it is, the graveyard stays up, because a launch board that quietly deletes its failures is just an advert.
The first 40 seats are free until Friday with the code SEED30. After that it's $9 for everyone, my own four included.
Two things I'd really like to know:
1. Would you feed a product you had not built yourself? What would make you come back tomorrow?
2. If it was yours, sitting at six hours left, would you post about it, or would that feel like begging?
Go feed something, or watch it die. Both are fine.
About Starvling on Product Hunt
“Feed a product or watch it die. Rank can't be bought.”
Starvling was submitted on Product Hunt and earned 4 upvotes and 1 comments, placing #45 on the daily leaderboard. Every product here is a pixel creature with 48 hours to live. Anyone can feed one, free, once a day, no signup. Five feeds a day keeps it alive. Nobody feeds it and it dies in public, in a graveyard that never gets cleaned. $9 to list. Rank can't be bought.Every listed product is a pixel creature that starves without daily feeds, dies in public, and can be brought back for $9.
On the analytics side, Starvling competes within Marketing, Product Hunt and Maker Tools — topics that collectively have 540.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Starvling performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Starvling?
Starvling was hunted by Luca Capone. 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 Starvling including community comment highlights and product details, visit the product overview.
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