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Extract Show HN posts from Hacker News: product launches with title, linked URL and domain, author, points, comment thread, tags and creation date. Filter by search term, minimum points, minimum comments and date for competitive intelligence, launch tracking and startup lead generation.

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Show HN Scraper - Product Launches & Community Feedback

Extract Show HN posts from Hacker News, where developers and founders launch what they have built. Each post comes with the product link, the domain and the discussion, which is usually the most honest early feedback a product ever gets.

What you get per launch

Field	Example
`title`	Show HN: A local-first alternative to Notion
`rawTitle`	the original title including the Show HN prefix
`url`, `domain`	the product link and its domain
`author`	the posting account
`points`	412
`comments`	the full discussion
`tags`	topic labels derived from the post
`createdAt`	posting time
`hnUrl`	link to the thread

searchQuery - free text across titles, e.g. AI, database, CLI
minPoints - keep only launches above a score threshold
minComments - keep only launches that generated discussion
dateFrom - earliest post date
maxItems - how many launches to save

Example input

{
  "searchQuery": "AI",
  "minPoints": 50,
  "maxItems": 100
}

Use cases

Competitive intelligence - catch new entrants in your category the week they launch
Startup lead generation - build a list of newly launched products with their domains
Investor deal sourcing - Show HN often predates any funding announcement by months
Product research - read what the audience criticised, which is the cheapest user research available
Trend analysis - count launches per topic over quarters to see where builders are moving
Content curation - assemble a launch digest from structured data

Why Show HN

Show HN is free, has no gatekeeper and reaches a technical audience that gives direct feedback. For developer tools, infrastructure and AI products it is frequently the first public appearance, earlier than Product Hunt and long before press coverage. The domain field makes it trivial to group launches by company or to dedupe repeated attempts.

Notes

points and comments are snapshots; recent posts are still accumulating.
domain is the practical field for finding repeat launchers: the same domain appearing several times over a year is a product iterating in public.
The actor reads the public Hacker News search API, so no login, proxy or rate-limit handling is needed.

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