# Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer Tools & Workflow Automation

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Developer Tools & Workflow Automation is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-02).

Searches public Hacker News stories filtered to developer tools and workflow automation topics, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-developer-tools-operators?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-02
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-developer-tools-workflow-automation-c1679351
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_NfKHMMhxbd9q4LOfZDCNV

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability hacker-news-discussion-search-developer-tools-workflow-automation-c1679351 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about workflow automation platforms and tell me the titles, authors, and scores of what comes up.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need community-sourced discussion signals from Hacker News specifically around developer tools and workflow automation — ideal for gauging developer sentiment, discovering trending tools, or performing lightweight competitive research without scraping HN directly.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns no results if search terms are too niche or obscure
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) causes validation error
- Hacker News API unavailability results in downstream fetch failure
- Overly broad queries may return loosely related stories
- Payment of $0.01 USDC required per call; unpaid requests rejected

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: developer tools and workflow automation: Search public Hacker News stories for developer tools and workflow automation. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of up to 10 Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, URL link, upvote score, author username, and timestamp of posting, filtered to developer tools and workflow automation topics.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "developer tools and workflow automation Platform operators",
   "description": "Optional focused search query."
  },
  "max_results": {
   "type": "integer",
   "default": 5,
   "maximum": 10,
   "minimum": 1
  }
 }
}
```

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-developer-tools-workflow-automation-c1679351/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from market.datapackvibe.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/market.datapackvibe.com/llms.txt)