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Hacker News, npm and PyPI signals for developer-tool teams

Who it is for: Developer-relations and devtool marketers.

The problem

You need to know where your tool is being discussed and adopted.

How it works

Give keywords and package names; get HN posts and package metadata and download counts.

Sample output (real run, personal data masked)

sourcerecordTypetitleurlpointsnumComments
hackernewsstoryShow HN:APIFlow Studio – Open-source, offline-first Postman alternativhttps://apiflowstudio.onrender.com/31
hackernewsstoryShow HN: Vietnam Tender Intelligence – gov procurement data, AI-agent https://apify.com/donerightlabs/tender-intelligence20
hackernewsstoryI built 13 small Apify Actors this month, mostly AI-groundedhttps://apify.com/rumi791110

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Public data only and no authors are exported in these samples.

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