Monitor sentiment on Hacker News with AI-powered scoring. Front page stories drive 20,000-30,000+ unique visitors to referenced sites.
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Understanding whether people feel positive, negative, or neutral about your brand is critical. Sentiment monitoring goes beyond counting mentions. It tells you how people feel, whether perception is shifting, and where you need to intervene before a small complaint becomes a viral backlash. 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 sentiment, scoring each one for brand relevance, buying intent, and engagement opportunity.
With 10 million+ daily pageviews, manually tracking sentiment 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 sentiment. 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 sentiment.
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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