Track what people say about your brand on Hacker News. AI-scored mentions, reply suggestions, and automated monitoring. Core audience is developers, CTOs, founders, and VCs. Technical decision-makers who evaluate and recommend tools.
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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 for your brand keywords, scores every mention for relevancy using AI, and surfaces the conversations that matter. You see who is asking for recommendations, who is comparing you to competitors, and who needs help.
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. The community is extremely skeptical of marketing.
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 connects to Hacker News and scans for your brand keywords automatically. Every mention is scored by AI across three dimensions: brand relevance, buying intent, and engagement opportunity. You get a dashboard showing only the conversations that matter.
OpenScout runs automated daily scans of Hacker News. Depending on your plan, you get 2 to 6 scans per day. You can also trigger a manual scan from your dashboard at any time.
OpenScout tracks posts, comments, and discussions where your brand, competitors, or relevant keywords are mentioned on Hacker News. This includes recommendation threads, product comparisons, complaints, and buying-intent conversations.
No. OpenScout handles all the monitoring on its own. You just enter your brand URL and keywords, and OpenScout does the rest. You do not need to provide any Hacker News credentials.
Yes. OpenScout generates platform-specific reply suggestions tailored to Hacker News's tone and culture. Each reply is written to sound natural and authentic, not like a marketing template.
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