# Hacker News Discussion Search: Startup Operations & Product Launches

> Hacker News Discussion Search: Startup Operations & Product Launches 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 and discussions focused on startup operations and product launches, returning titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Facts

- Endpoint: POST https://market.datapackvibe.com/x402/demand-next-community-startup-operations-researchers?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-startup-operations-product-launches-5b583d6c
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_dbm0kMr_UDHSA3FKTBNPZ

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-startup-operations-product-launches-5b583d6c -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about startup operations and product launches — I want to see what the community is saying about go-to-market strategies.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need to surface real community sentiment and discussion from Hacker News specifically about startup operations or product launches. It is well-suited for founder research, competitive intelligence, and trend monitoring within the tech/startup community, especially when you want scored, timestamped public discussions rather than curated editorial content.

## Known failure modes

- No matching stories found for a very narrow or obscure query — returns empty results
- max_results out of range (below 1 or above 10) triggers a validation error
- HN search backend unavailable causes a service error
- Query too vague may return loosely related stories not specific to startup operations

## How this service works

Hacker News discussion search: startup operations and product launches: Search public Hacker News stories for startup operations and product launches. Returns story titles, links, scores, authors, and timestamps.

## Output

Returns a list of Hacker News stories matching the query, each including the story title, URL link, HN score (upvotes), author username, and publication timestamp. Up to 10 results per call.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "startup operations and product launches Research teams",
   "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-startup-operations-product-launches-5b583d6c/health.json
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