Hookest
Your swipe file for viral video hooks
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Hookest tracks the opening seconds of viral TikToks, Reels, and Shorts and makes them searchable with real performance data. Study what’s working in your niche, watch competitors, and bring saved hooks into Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini through MCP.
PH · launched Sep 24, 2026 · 244 upvotes (top 1%) · 0 views
Niche: video content creation platforms · 95 launches, 15 in the last 7 days ▲ +7% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Marketing
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Social Media
- Marketing
- Artificial Intelligence
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More like this: all 95 launches in video content creation platforms →
Could you build this?
Partial The UI and MCP server wrapper are straightforward, but scraping viral video data and performance metrics continuously from TikTok, Reels, and Shorts requires dedicated scraper infrastructure.
What it would actually take: The service needs a distributed fleet of headless scrapers with residential proxy rotation, fingerprint spoofing, and reverse-engineered mobile API clients to bypass aggressive anti-bot protections on TikTok and Instagram. It also needs a processing pipeline to download opening video segments, extract audio for Whisper transcription, and continuously poll metrics to calculate viral velocity.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 240 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #1 of 241 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 251 days after the earliest competitor.
- HookTrack · ph · 2026-11-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.59
- HookEdit · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- ShortsIntel · ph · 2026-10-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Hookova · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- ViralSpy · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Easy Clip Hooks · ph · 2026-10-21 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- CrestClip · ph · 2026-10-09 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Viewlify · ph · 2026-10-18 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.43
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