# 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-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-startup-operations-product-launches-d45b9ad9
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_rC4HTvjyS93GvnGccH8D4

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-d45b9ad9 -d '<json body>'
```

Example prompt: Search Hacker News for the top 5 discussions about startup operations and product launches — I want titles, links, scores, and authors.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, community-curated perspectives on startup operations and product launches from the Hacker News audience — particularly useful for founders, operators, and product managers who want to understand what practitioners are discussing. Prefer this over general web search when you specifically want the HN community's take (scores, comments, author credibility) rather than broad media coverage.

## Known failure modes

- Query returns no results if the search term is too niche or HN has no matching stories
- max_results exceeding 10 will be rejected with a validation error
- Payment failure (402) if USDC balance is insufficient
- Rate limiting or timeout if HN search backend is slow
- Stale results if HN index hasn't been updated recently

## 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 stories matching the query, each with the story title, link to the HN post or original article, 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 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-startup-operations-product-launches-d45b9ad9/health.json
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