Monitor product reviews on Hacker News with AI-powered scoring. Front page stories drive 20,000-30,000+ unique visitors to referenced sites.
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Product reviews shared on social platforms carry more weight than official review sites because they are written voluntarily, without incentives. People trust Reddit threads, Twitter opinions, and HN comments more than G2 reviews. Monitoring these gives you real social proof insights. On Hacker News, these conversations reach 10 million monthly unique visitors.
Hacker News is the front page of the tech community. Developers, CTOs, and technical founders discuss tools, architectures, and products with brutal honesty. A positive HN thread can drive thousands of technical decision-makers to your product overnight. OpenScout monitors Hacker News specifically for product reviews, scoring each one for brand relevance, buying intent, and engagement opportunity.
With 10 million+ daily pageviews, manually tracking product reviews on Hacker News is impossible. OpenScout automates this with AI-powered monitoring and platform-specific reply suggestions.
Reach
10 million monthly unique visitors
Daily Volume
10 million+ daily pageviews
Why It Matters
Front page stories drive 20,000-30,000+ unique visitors to referenced sites. The community is extremely skeptical of marketing.
Demographics
75.76% male, primarily 25-34, software engineers, startup founders, product managers, VCs
OpenScout scans Hacker News for your brand keywords and filters results to find product reviews. Every mention is scored by AI for brand relevance, buying intent, and engagement opportunity, so you only see the conversations that matter.
Hacker News reaches 10 million monthly unique visitors with 10 million+ daily pageviews. Front page stories drive 20,000-30,000+ unique visitors to referenced sites. This makes it one of the most valuable platforms for finding product reviews.
Yes. OpenScout generates reply suggestions specifically tailored to Hacker News's tone and format. Each reply is written to sound natural and authentic to the platform.
OpenScout runs automated daily scans. Depending on your plan, you get 2 to 6 scans per day. You can also trigger manual scans from your dashboard at any time.
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