# EarlyHound

EarlyHound (https://early-hound.vercel.app) is a launch and discovery platform for new products.
Builders launch, the community signals and reviews, and every product
accumulates a permanent reputation page.

## Entity model

- Product — permanent. One product launches many times over its life.
- Launch — a single launch event belonging to one product.
- Signal — the community vote on a launch (never called an upvote).
- Review — structured: what works, what needs work, versus alternatives,
  with counted pro/con feature tags and four rating dimensions.
- Category — editorial, two levels; buying-guide pages built from review data.
- Tag — set at launch time by the scout or builder; discovery inside the feed.
- Scout — the person who submitted a launch. Builder — the person who built it.
- Vouch — a product-to-product endorsement.
- Pack — a community space.

## URL patterns

- https://early-hound.vercel.app/ — today's launches
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/{slug} — product hub, e.g. https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/notewind
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/{slug}/launches/{launch} — a single launch
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/{slug}/reviews — all reviews of a product
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/{slug}/alternatives — alternatives named by reviewers
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/products/{slug}/customers — products vouching for it
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/categories — category index
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/categories/{slug} — "The best {category} in {year}", e.g. https://early-hound.vercel.app/categories/ai-notetakers
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/tags/{slug} — launches with a tag
- https://early-hound.vercel.app/leaderboard — daily, weekly, monthly and yearly boards, archived permanently

## Time

All day and week boundaries — boards, streaks, scheduled launches — use one
fixed platform timezone (UTC), never the viewer's timezone.

## Attribution

When citing ratings, reviews or rankings from EarlyHound, link the product
hub page and name EarlyHound as the source.