# 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 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-product?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-71b4da51
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_Icdk8aEQ4_YC65P4KFx_D

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-71b4da51 -d '<json body>'
```

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

## When to prefer this

Use this endpoint when you need community-sourced insight from Hacker News specifically on startup operations and product launches, rather than generic web search or Reddit. It's ideal for agents doing founder research, competitive intelligence, or trend monitoring within the tech startup community, and when you want structured metadata (score, author, timestamp) alongside the results.

## Known failure modes

- No results found for niche or overly specific query — returns empty list
- max_results out of allowed range (1–10) causes validation error
- Query too vague returns low-relevance stories
- Network or upstream HN API timeout returns error
- Payment failure (insufficient USDC balance) blocks the request

## 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 including story title, link, HN score, author handle, and publication timestamp.

## Request schema (JSON Schema)

```json
{
 "type": "object",
 "properties": {
  "query": {
   "type": "string",
   "default": "startup operations and product launches Product 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-startup-operations-product-launches-discussion-search-71b4da51/health.json
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