# Email a Weekly Product Hunt Leaderboard Digest

> Pull Product Hunt's weekly leaderboard for selected topics with Apify, keep launches above a vote threshold, rank them by votes, and email the top results as an HTML digest through Gmail.

- URL: https://www.automongo.com/automations/product-hunt-weekly-digest/
- Summary: Get the top Product Hunt launches for your topics in your inbox every Friday.
- Tools: n8n
- Difficulty: Intermediate
- Category: Marketing
- Tags: product-hunt, apify, gmail, market-research, email-digest
- Published: 2026-11-02
- External resource: https://n8n.io/workflows/19031-email-a-weekly-product-hunt-leaderboard-digest-with-apify-and-gmail/?ref=ez5zfu33yh5f&utm_source=affiliate

## How It Works

This n8n workflow fires every Friday at 17:00 and uses Apify to fetch Product Hunt's weekly leaderboard for the topics you choose. It drops launches below a minimum vote count, sorts the rest by votes, and compiles the top results into a single ranked HTML email. Gmail then delivers the digest to the address you configure, so a week of launches in your space arrives as one message.

### Setup Steps

1. **Connect Apify**: Add an Apify credential (API token) that can run the `dami_studio/producthunt-scraper` actor.
2. **Connect Gmail**: Add a Gmail credential and make sure the account is allowed to send email from n8n.
3. **Set Your Configuration**: Update the `topics`, `minVotes`, `keep` (top N), and `digestEmail` values to match the categories you track and where the digest should go.
4. **Add Slack (Optional)**: Add a Slack credential, pick a target channel, and connect the digest output to the Slack step to post the digest in a channel too.
5. **Archive in Google Sheets (Optional)**: Add Google Sheets credentials, choose a spreadsheet and sheet, and connect the sorted launches to the Google Sheets append step.
6. **Activate the Schedule**: Turn the workflow on so it runs every Friday at 5 PM.

### Automation Workflow

```
Schedule Trigger (every Friday, 17:00)
    ↓
Set Configuration (topics, minVotes, keep, digestEmail)
    ↓
Apify: dami_studio/producthunt-scraper (weekly leaderboard per topic)
    ↓
Filter launches below minVotes → Sort by votes (descending)
    ↓
Build HTML digest of top N launches (or a "no launches" message)
    ↓
Gmail: send digest to digestEmail
    ↓ (optional)
Slack post  /  Google Sheets append
```

### Benefits

- **No Manual Browsing**: The weekly leaderboard for your topics lands in your inbox instead of requiring a Friday visit to Product Hunt.
- **Signal Over Noise**: The vote threshold and top N limit keep the digest short and focused on launches that gained traction.
- **Topic Control**: One configuration node defines which Product Hunt topics, how many launches, and which recipient, so changes take seconds.
- **Clear Empty Weeks**: When nothing passes the threshold, the workflow still sends a "no launches" message, so a missing email never hides a failed run.
- **Optional History**: The Google Sheets branch builds a running archive of ranked launches for later trend analysis.

### Use Cases

- Product managers tracking new launches in their category each week
- Founders and investors scouting emerging tools and competitors on Product Hunt
- Marketing teams collecting launch ideas and positioning examples for their own release
- Newsletter writers sourcing a weekly "top launches" section for a niche topic
- Agencies sharing a weekly tool roundup with clients or an internal Slack channel