# Hacker News Discussion Search for Product Teams

> Hacker News Discussion Search for Product Teams is a paid API for AI agents from market.datapackvibe.com, paid per call via x402, $0.01/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-10-01).

Searches publicly indexed Hacker News discussions with a product team focus, using live Bing web search results.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/web-hacker-news-discussion-product?utm_source=zero.xyz
- Price: $0.01/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-10-01
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/hacker-news-discussion-search-for-product-teams-865418d6
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_08KQFo2pXzMPhQD_n9jOZ

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-for-product-teams-865418d6 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for discussions about how product teams handle technical debt — give me the top 5 results.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you specifically need Hacker News community perspectives relevant to product teams — not general web search or Reddit. It is ideal when you want practitioner and developer opinions on product management topics sourced from the HN community, and when a focused, low-cost per-query approach is acceptable. Prefer alternatives if you need real-time HN data, full thread content, or discussions outside the product team domain.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns no results if Bing index has no matching HN threads
- Results may be stale if Bing has not recently indexed the relevant HN pages
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) may cause a validation error
- Overly broad or ambiguous queries may return loosely related HN threads
- Service unavailability or x402 payment failure prevents result delivery

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search for Product teams: Search publicly indexed Hacker News discussions. Focus: product teams. Uses live Bing web search results.

## Output

Returns up to 10 Hacker News discussion results sourced via live Bing web search, each likely including a title, URL pointing to news.ycombinator.com, and a snippet summarizing the discussion content, filtered to be relevant for product team contexts.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "site:news.ycombinator.com discussion Product teams"
  },
  "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-for-product-teams-865418d6/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
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