# 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 for discussions about 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-founders?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-658cab65
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_z8dES-FEOI_w_7I_Pxfl-

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-658cab65 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about startup operations and product launches and give me the titles, links, and scores.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need community-sourced insight from Hacker News specifically — founder war stories, Show HN launches, and grassroots startup operations discussions — rather than polished editorial content or structured company databases. It is ideal for trend-spotting and benchmarking against real practitioner experience shared on HN.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns zero results if the search terms are too niche or misspelled
- Max results capped at 10; requests above this may be rejected or clamped
- Network timeout if Hacker News search API is temporarily unavailable
- Stale results if HN indexing is delayed for very recent posts
- Payment failure if USDC balance is insufficient for the $0.01 per-call fee

## 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 up to 10 Hacker News story objects, each containing the story title, link to the HN thread or external URL, community upvote score, author username, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "startup operations and product launches Startup founders",
   "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-658cab65/health.json
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