# Hacker News Startup Operations & Product Launches Discussion Search

> Hacker News Startup Operations & Product Launches Discussion Search 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-builders?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-startup-operations-product-launches-discussion-search-162b7010
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_JhuzjdMgFVUbBmt1AvBvZ

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-startup-operations-product-launches-discussion-search-162b7010 -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 launching new products right now.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need quick, curated community insights from Hacker News specifically around startup operations and product launches, and you want structured metadata (scores, authors, timestamps) rather than raw web scraping. Ideal for founder research, competitive intelligence, and trend monitoring within the HN tech community. Prefer this over generic web search when HN community sentiment and discussion quality scores are important.

## Known failure modes

- Empty result set if query is too niche or no matching HN stories exist
- Rate limiting or service unavailability returning a 402 or 5xx error
- max_results out of range (must be 1–10) causing a validation error
- Stale or cached results if HN index has not 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 story objects, each containing the story title, link to the HN post or external article, community upvote score, author handle, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "startup operations and product launches Software builders",
   "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-startup-operations-product-launches-discussion-search-162b7010/health.json
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