Hacker News Monitor & Who's-Hiring Leads 🟠

Search and monitor Hacker News for keywords, brand mentions, and Show HN launches — and extract structured job posts from the monthly "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" threads. Built on the free Algolia HN API, so it's fast and reliable.

🔎 Modes

• search — find stories and comments by keyword, filter by type (story, comment, ask_hn, show_hn, front_page), sort by popularity or date, and restrict to a recent window. Great for brand monitoring, market research, and lead/pain-point mining.
• whoishiring — automatically finds the latest "Ask HN: Who is hiring?" thread and returns every job post as a structured row. Optional keyword filter (e.g. remote, python).
• user — pull a specific user's recent stories and comments.

🎯 Use cases

• Founders & marketers — get alerted when your product, company, or competitors are mentioned on HN.
• Recruiters & developers — turn "Who is hiring?" threads into a clean, filterable job/lead list.
• Market & trend research — track how often a topic or technology is discussed over time.
• Sales / lead gen — mine comments for companies and pain points to reach out to.
• Content teams — find the highest-signal stories in your niche.

📥 Input

• mode — search, whoishiring, or user.
• query — keyword(s).
• tags — item-type filter for search.
• sortBy — popularity or date.
• sinceDays — only items newer than N days (0 = no limit).
• author — for user mode.
• maxItems — result cap.

📤 Output (search example)

{
  "objectID": "40123456",
  "type": "story",
  "title": "Show HN: I built a web scraping tool",
  "url": "https://example.com",
  "author": "pg",
  "points": 342,
  "numComments": 128,
  "createdAt": "2026-07-10T14:22:00.000Z",
  "hnUrl": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40123456"
}

🔌 Integrations & scheduling

• Schedule it daily to monitor mentions and get a fresh feed of matches.
• Export to CSV, Excel, JSON, or Google Sheets, or pull via the Apify API.
• Pipe matches to Slack/Zapier/Make for instant brand-mention alerts.

❓ FAQ

Where does the data come from? The free, public Algolia Hacker News Search API — fast and generous.

Can it find every job in "Who is hiring?" It pulls the top-level comments (job posts) from the latest thread, and you can filter by keyword like remote or react.

How is it priced? Pay per result — per story, comment, or job post returned. No subscription.

🗺️ Roadmap

• Scheduled monitoring with new-match alerts (webhook/Slack)
• Sentiment tagging of mentions
• Email/contact extraction from Who's-Hiring posts