Starvling

Feed a product or watch it die. Rank can't be bought.

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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.