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Hacker News Discussion Search for Product Discovery
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Hacker News Discussion Search for Product Discovery 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 to surface relevant discussions for product discovery and user research, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.
Price / call$0.01
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StatusUnknown
How this service works
Hacker News discussion search: product discovery and user research: Search public Hacker News stories for product discovery and user research. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.
Output
Returns a list of Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, URL link, upvote score, author username, and submission timestamp — up to the requested number of results (max 10).
Example use cases
Validating a new startup idea
“Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about AI-powered hiring tools — I want to see if founders have already identified pain points in this space before I build anything.”
Competitive landscape research
“Find me up to 10 Hacker News stories about project management software for remote teams so I can understand what users love and hate about existing products.”
Identifying underserved user needs
“Search Hacker News for discussions where founders talk about problems with developer onboarding tools — show me up to 7 results with scores and links.”
Technical details
Endpoint
POSThttps://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-product-discovery-founders?utm_source=zero.xyzWhen to prefer
Choose this endpoint when you need to quickly surface Hacker News community discussions for product discovery, founder sentiment, or user research purposes without scraping HN manually. It is ideal for startup founders and product teams who want structured, scored story data from HN filtered to a specific topic. Prefer this over general web search when the target audience is specifically the HN/tech-founder community.
Side effects
- No results returned if the query is too niche or uses obscure terminology not present in HN story titles
- Max results capped at 10; requests for more will be silently truncated
- Stale or cached results if the underlying HN data is not real-time
- Payment failure (x402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Query too generic may return unrelated HN stories with low relevance
Input
Schema · Request body
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| query | string | Optional focused search query. |
| max_results | integer |
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