Request for increased rate limits for research/educational API usage

[Teake1404]

Request for increased rate limits for research/educational API usage

Hi Product Hunt API team,

I'm building a research/educational tool to analyze successful Product Hunt launches and generate data-backed recommendations for founders preparing their own launches. The tool performs statistical analysis (correlation, decision trees) on launch patterns to help makers understand what works.

Current Situation

• Use case: Non-commercial research/analysis tool
• API endpoint: /v2/api/graphql
• Current limit: 6,250 complexity points per 15 minutes
• Issue: Hitting rate limits when enriching ~100-200 launches with votesCount and commentsCount

Request

Could you please increase the rate limits for my developer token? I need to make approximately 100-200 GraphQL queries to enrich existing scraped data with real launch metrics (votesCount, commentsCount).

Project Details

• Purpose: Educational research tool analyzing launch success patterns
• Data usage: Internal analysis only (not for commercial resale)
• Scope: Analyzing ~100-200 launches from pregnancy/family/kids app categories
• Query pattern: Simple post(slug: $slug) { votesCount, commentsCount } queries

Current Workaround

I'm currently:

• Processing data in batches with delays
• Implementing exponential backoff on rate limit errors
• Waiting for rate limit resets between batches

However, this significantly slows down the research workflow.

Questions

1. Is there a way to request higher rate limits for research/educational use cases?
2. Would OAuth with user context provide different rate limits?
3. Are there any best practices for bulk data enrichment that I should follow?

Thank you for your time and for building such a valuable API!

Developer Account:name_hatch
Contact: shuqingke1404@gmail.com