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Hacker News Pain Miner

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Extracts deep pain points, startup ideas, and user frustrations directly from Hacker News comments. Input any keyword (like 'SaaS pricing' or 'I hate when') to instantly scrape top comments, authors, and URLs. Perfect for marketers and founders doing Voice of Customer research.

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Pay per usage

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Juliana Roberta Almeida

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Hacker News Pain Miner API through CLI

The Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use Hacker News Pain Miner locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install Apify CLI

Using installation script (macOS/Linux):

$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bash

Using installation script (Windows):

$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iex

Using Homebrew:

$brew install apify-cli

Using npm:

$npm install -g apify-cli

Other API clients include:

Hacker News Pain Miner API in Python

Hacker News Pain Miner API in JavaScript

Hacker News Pain Miner OpenAPI definition

Hacker News Pain Miner API

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