A Product Hunt gallery is a tile, not a launch film

The PH SKU is the gallery still with the product name readable at thumbnail size. Seedream 5 Pro holds the type. A Veo launch trailer is a different object — /for/saas-founders already owns the founder clip.

A Product Hunt listing that ships is a row of this product: the name a hunter can read at postage-stamp size, chrome that matches the live app, a tile that still works when the gallery is four-across. It is not an eight-second Veo of a glass office. The store reads stills. Typeset the name. Leave the founder walkthrough to a different file.

The gallery is a tile

Product Hunt displays stills. Capture the real product you would ship: wordmark matching the app, button labels matching production, a screenshot a reviewer can proof. Crop chrome that is not the SKU. Crop other people’s tenant names if a demo account leaked one. The still is a document.

Do not prompt a video model to “show a Product Hunt-winning launch, cinematic founder, glowing upvotes.” It will invent a cousin client, a cousin nav, a cousin hunter row. A buyer who lands on the live app and sees a different primary action is looking at a lie.

A generated “launch film” — photoreal hunters, invented comments, a fake upvote widget — is not a gallery tile. It is a testimonial you did not collect. Do not screenshot a Veo take and upload it as product UI. If you do not have a capture yet, typeset a mock of the tile. Quote every string a hunter will proof at thumbnail size.

Seedream 5 Pro holds the type

Seedream 5.0 Pro is ByteDance’s flagship text-to-image row: 7 credits, typography, native text rendering in 14 languages, dense layouts and structured designs. No clip. No audio. Resolution is unset on this record — do not invent a 4K badge. Use it when the frame is a packed promo tile: a feature grid, a small lockup, a dense comparison card that still has to hold type at thumbnail size.

Write the exact strings. If the product name or a button must stay verbatim, say so in the prompt and inspect the still. Proof at 100%. One wrong character in the wordmark is a regenerate. Seedream typesets a picture of a tile. It is not your app.

Aspect is a hunter’s crop, not a trailer. Generating 16:9 cinematic and “we’ll crop for the gallery” is how the name dies in the thumbnail. Pick the ratio of the slot. A video model is a bad typography engine. Approve the characters. Most Product Hunt slots do not want motion.

Ideogram is the wordmark still

Ideogram V4 is the lettering still when the ad is the name: text-to-image, 6 credits, posters and logos with accurate text listed. audio is null. No duration. Resolution is unset — do not stamp 4K. Quote the product name you will actually print on the tile. Proof it like a press check. Cut it as a title card. Do not I2V a blank dashboard and hope the model stamps the name in flight.

Seedream is the better default for a packed marketing still that sits next to the captures — feature grids, dense lockups, multilingual type. Ideogram is the better default when the frame is a poster-simple wordmark. Neither is a video model. Neither is a fake hunter.

Generate an image from text is the named agent job: you describe the still, the agent asks style, aspect, and count, then picks a model. Cost is priced per model, shown before you confirm. Name Seedream when the job is a packed tile. Name Ideogram when the job is the wordmark. A bare “make a Product Hunt listing” will land on a portrait row, or a video row. Quote the grid. Proof at 100%.

Do not route Veo at the gallery because “video converts.” Veo 3.1 is native audio, official 4K tier, 4 / 6 / 8 second clips, 40 credits. That is a scene. A founder walkthrough, if you add one, is a different asset. This page is the screenshot row.

/for/saas-founders already owns the founder clip

/for/saas-founders already knows the asset that gets requested before a sales call: a 30-second product-in-use demo. Raw screen recording of the actual interface outperforms a polished mockup. That page is the founder clip. It is not a Product Hunt gallery rewritten.

A listing that copies the founder playbook — talking head, cinematic office, a Veo “launch trailer” of invented hunters — has left the gallery for an explainer. The explainer can live on the landing page. It cannot replace a readable name at thumbnail size on Product Hunt.

Do not generate a fake hunter panel as the gallery. Invented quotes and faces are testimonials you did not collect. If a human must speak, it is a real named founder on a different day, on the /for job, not this slot. The tile is the SKU. The trailer is a different object.

FAQ

Can I Veo a launch trailer and screenshot it into the Product Hunt gallery?

No. A constructed trailer is not product UI and not a hunt you collected. Typeset the tile on Seedream 5.0 Pro at 7 credits, quoting the name at thumbnail size, or letter the wordmark on Ideogram V4 at 6 credits. The gallery is stills. Veo is a scene.

Why Seedream instead of Ideogram for every slot?

Seedream 5 Pro is 7 credits, dense layouts and multilingual type. Ideogram V4 is 6 credits, posters and logos with accurate text. Packed promo tiles go to Seedream. Simple wordmarks go to Ideogram. Neither job is a video generate.

Does the agent pick the model if I just say “Product Hunt listing”?

Generate an image from text will ask aspect and style, then pick a row unless you name one. Name Seedream for a packed tile. Name Ideogram for a wordmark. Do not accept a video model for a screenshot slot.

Is the SaaS-founders page the same job?

No. That page is the founder clip and a 30-second product-in-use demo. This listing is a gallery tile with the product name readable at thumbnail size. Do not Veo a launch trailer into the slots.