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Show HN Launch Radar

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Pull Show HN and optional Launch HN posts via the public Hacker News Algolia API. Returns title, URL, domain, points, comments, author handle, and inferred product signals. No email harvesting. Unofficial; not affiliated with Y Combinator.

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Bakos Bence

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What does Show HN Launch Radar do?

The page you open		What you get
Show HN Launch Radar · show_hn	→	Show HN: …

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Pull Show HN (and optional Launch HN) posts via the public Hacker News Algolia API. Returns title, URL, domain, points, comments, author handle, and inferred product signals[]. No email harvesting.

Unofficial. Not affiliated with Y Combinator or Hacker News.

How to run

Open this Actor in Apify Console.
Click Start on the prefilled defaults (maxItems 5), or edit inputs.
Leave proxyType on none unless needed.
Export the dataset or pull via API.

{
  "feed": "show_hn",
  "sort": "date",
  "lookbackDays": 7,
  "inferSignals": true,
  "onlyNewSinceLastRun": false,
  "maxItems": 5,
  "proxyType": "none",
  "proxyConfiguration": {
    "useApifyProxy": false
  }
}

How much does it cost?

Pay per event (PPE): Actor start + each result row. See the Pricing tab on this Actor’s Store page.

Sample output

{
  "title": "Show HN: \u2026",
  "feed": "show_hn",
  "signals": [
    "ai"
  ],
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1"
}

Use cases & references

Actor	When to use
SEC Form D Funding	Public funding signals
Internet Archive	Historical launch pages

Export to Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio & Qlik

Use the dataset items API URL from the run. Authenticate with your Apify API token.

Dashboards: connect Power BI, Tableau, Looker Studio, or Qlik to the dataset API. AI agents: paste this Actor’s Store page URL into an Apify-capable agent (MCP / Claude / Cursor with Apify).

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