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Get real-time alerts for Hacker News mentions, track competitors, and identify growth opportunities with AI-powered brand monitoring.

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Loved by 1000+ SaaS & Developer Brands

Why you should monitor Hacker News

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Know if you're trending

Hacker News is the place for what's new in B2B SaaS, stay informed if your space gets mentioned.

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Manage your reputation

Quickly address issues, manage crises, and refine your public messaging.

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Collect customer feedback

Collect customer feedback and insights directly from Hacker News.

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Outpace your competitors

Be the first one to respond to critical online conversations.

How Hacker News Monitoring Works

1. Define your Hacker News keywords

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Track keywords for your brand name, your competitors, or the pain points you are solving. Octolens will scan Hacker News so you never miss a mention.

brand namecompetitor namepain point

2. Let AI filter out the Hacker News noise

3. Get alerts abouts Hacker News mentions

All you need for Hacker News monitoring

Octolens comes with all the features you need to monitor Hacker News and other social platforms effectively.

Monitor Hacker News and other platforms relevant for SaaS

Keep a pulse on Twitter, LinkedIn, Reddit, GitHub, and many more.

Email or Slack alerts

Get notified whenever somebody mentions your keyword - either via email or Slack.

AI-powered relevance scoring

We have context on your business & score posts on their relevance to you, filtering out the noise.

Analytics & Reports

Understand and report keyword trends over time, platforms, and relevance and share them with your team.

Workflow integrations

Connect your mention data to any system via webhooks, API, and MCP server integrations.

Loved by 1000s of founders, marketing, and dev-facing teams

Anna Redbond

Head of Marketing, Flagsmith

There's few tools I'd put my name to, Octolens is one of them - it's worth trying

Igor Lamos

Founder, beplus.cloud

Subscribed and already getting relevant posts. Onboarding is simple, I was able to get up & running in few minutes.

Mike Choi

Founder, South Park Commons

Great product! Super useful if you want to know what your customers/competitors are talking about your product. You could do this manually but the amount of time/brain cycles you save from this product is definitely worth it 👍

Guillermo Rauch

CEO, Vercel

Wild AI-native onboarding experience. I literally entered zero input other than `vercel⁠.com` 🫨

Robin Guldener

Co-Founder, Nango (YC W23)

Octolens is very helpful for us to find relevant conversations in social media for our open-source product. Would not want to miss this in my toolchain anymore!

Leonard Püttmann

Developer Relations, Kern AI

At Kern AI, we use Octolens daily. It's a fantastic tool to engage with your community and find content quickly.

Matija Sosic

Co-Founder, Wasp (YC W21)

This is a really helpful tool for every community builder!

Alex Harris

Founder, Adadot

Here at Adadot we have a daily power-hour during which we use Octolens to surface any community content with commenting on or sharing. Great tool!

Anna Redbond

Head of Marketing, Flagsmith

There's few tools I'd put my name to, Octolens is one of them - it's worth trying

Igor Lamos

Founder, beplus.cloud

Subscribed and already getting relevant posts. Onboarding is simple, I was able to get up & running in few minutes.

Mike Choi

Founder, South Park Commons

Guillermo Rauch

CEO, Vercel

Wild AI-native onboarding experience. I literally entered zero input other than `vercel⁠.com` 🫨

Robin Guldener

Co-Founder, Nango (YC W23)

Octolens is very helpful for us to find relevant conversations in social media for our open-source product. Would not want to miss this in my toolchain anymore!

Leonard Püttmann

Developer Relations, Kern AI

At Kern AI, we use Octolens daily. It's a fantastic tool to engage with your community and find content quickly.

Matija Sosic

Co-Founder, Wasp (YC W21)

This is a really helpful tool for every community builder!

Alex Harris

Founder, Adadot

Here at Adadot we have a daily power-hour during which we use Octolens to surface any community content with commenting on or sharing. Great tool!

Hakim Elakhrass

Co-founder, NannyML

All of our content writers also use Octolens to find relevant mentions to comment on.

Felix Magedanz

Founder, Hanko

A happy customer since day 1. Octolens helps us keep up with the chatter on all relevant platforms.

David Paffenholz

CEO & Co-Founder, Juicebox (YC S22)

Octolens is part of my daily routine. I save hours a week checking socials for important conversations about PeopleGPT.

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Co-founder, Agenta

I've been using Octolens for a couple of months, and it is really helpful. The AI feature to filter the mentions to the ones relevant to you is very useful and spares me lots of times looking into hundreds of irrelevant posts.

George Novik

Founder, Zerocoder

Octolens is a game changer for DevTool companies! It's great to see a tool that prioritizes genuine engagement over traditional marketing tactics.

Johannes Hötter

Co-Founder, Kern AI

Octolens allows us to find relevant discussions outside of our own spectrum. It's literally scanning all relevant platforms, and then suggesting where we need to engage with developers to have a high chance to attract new engaged users.

Hakim Elakhrass

Co-founder, NannyML

All of our content writers also use Octolens to find relevant mentions to comment on.

Felix Magedanz

Founder, Hanko

A happy customer since day 1. Octolens helps us keep up with the chatter on all relevant platforms.

David Paffenholz

CEO & Co-Founder, Juicebox (YC S22)

Octolens is part of my daily routine. I save hours a week checking socials for important conversations about PeopleGPT.

Mahmoud Mabrouk

Co-founder, Agenta

George Novik

Founder, Zerocoder

Octolens is a game changer for DevTool companies! It's great to see a tool that prioritizes genuine engagement over traditional marketing tactics.

Johannes Hötter

Co-Founder, Kern AI

Brand Monitoring With Fair Pricing

Pay MonthlyPay AnnuallySave up to 34%

Pro

$99/month

Everything in Basic, and:
✓20,000 mentions
✓10 keywords
✓1-year data history
✓Hourly alerts
✓MCP server & Webhooks
✓AI relevance scoring

For growing brands like

Popular

Scale

$299/month

Everything in Pro, and:
✓50,000 mentions
✓15 keywords
✓Unlimited data history
✓Real-time alerts
✓Full API access
✓AI summaries

For well-known brands like

Enterprise

Custom

Everything in Scale, and:
✓Multiple workspaces
✓Unlimited mentions
✓Unlimited keywords
✓Custom AI agents

For viral brands like

FAQ: Keyword Monitoring for Hacker News

We check Hacker News for new content every 15 minutes. If you need more frequent updates, please contact us at hi@octolens.com.

You can monitor stories, comments, Show HN, Ask HN, and discussions that contain your keywords. This includes both titles and content of posts and comments.

Yes! You can monitor posts from specific users, domains, or track broader keyword mentions across all of Hacker News.

Yes, we support various search refinements to help you find the most relevant content, including filtering by story type, points threshold, and more.

We optimize our monitoring to work within Hacker News' API limits while ensuring reliable coverage. Our system is designed to maintain consistent monitoring without interruption.

Yes! You can customize your notifications based on AI relevance scores (high, medium, low) and receive them via email, Slack, or our web app.

Yes, we monitor all types of posts including job listings if they match your keywords. You can specifically focus on or exclude job posts based on your needs.

Yes, you can export your Hacker News monitoring data in various formats. We also provide webhook integration for connecting with your existing tools.