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# Track Hacker News mentions of your brand | Mentio

> Every story and every comment on the site, matched against your keywords within the hour, so a Show HN thread or a buried reply never goes unanswered.

Source: https://mentio.dev/hacker-news/

Hacker News

# Track Hacker News mentions of your brand

Every story and every comment on the site, matched against your keywords within the hour, so a Show HN thread or a buried reply never goes unanswered.

[Start tracking Hacker News ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup)[Read the docs ›](https://docs.mentio.dev)

Every hourStories and commentsThe Algolia HN Search API

## Exactly what you get, no marketing numbers

A comment on Hacker News from someone who tried your product carries more weight with developers than any ad. It is also where the harshest comparisons happen.

What we watch

### Stories and comments

The whole site: submissions and every comment under them, titles and bodies, with the author and the thread.

How often

### Every hour

One poll covers the entire site (Hacker News produces a few hundred items an hour), so every keyword is matched from the same feed.

Where it comes from

### The Algolia HN Search API

The public, free search API that Hacker News itself uses. No key, no scraping.

## Hacker News mentions, as Mentio delivers them

Every match is scored 0 to 100 for relevance against your company context, tagged with sentiment and intent, and summarised in a line. The same shape reaches Slack, a webhook, the API and your agent.

An illustrative mention for a fictional brand, acme.

acme

2m ago

MmloboAsk HN thread1.8K karma

We switched from acme to a self-hosted setup last quarter. The API was fine, the pricing wasn't; happy to share numbers if anyone's deciding.

84

A former customer explaining why they left, in a thread other buyers read.

negativecomparisonrel 84

## From post to signal in three steps

01

### Track keywords

Your brand, your competitors, your space. One POST per term, or a click in the dashboard.

02

### The pipeline watches everything

Every source is ingested once, matched against your terms, and classified by AI: relevance 0 to 100, sentiment, and intent, tuned by your company context.

03

### Act on what matters

Triage in the dashboard, deliver to Slack or webhooks, query the REST API, or let your AI agent work the feed over MCP.

Also watched, in the same feed

[X](/x/)[Reddit](/reddit/)[GitHub](/github/)[Bluesky](/bluesky/)[LinkedIn](/linkedin/)[Stack Overflow](/stack-overflow/)[DEV](/dev/)[YouTube](/youtube/)[News](/news/)

## Start monitoring brand mentions

One request tracks your first keyword. The first scored mention lands within minutes, in Slack, a webhook, or your agent.

[Get your API key ›](https://app.mentio.dev/login?mode=signup)[Read the docs ›](https://docs.mentio.dev)

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