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Developer-tool teams watch Hacker News mentions and package downloads for adoption signals. The rows below are one real run mixing story hits and package records.
| source | recordType | title | createdAt | points | numComments | packageName | downloadsLastWeek |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| hackernews | story | Show HN:APIFlow Studio – Open-source, offline-first Postman alte... | 2026-10-09T05:40:43Z | 3 | 1 | ||
| hackernews | story | Show HN: Vietnam Tender Intelligence – gov procurement data, AI-... | 2026-10-01T04:50:24Z | 2 | 0 | ||
| hackernews | story | I built 13 small Apify Actors this month, mostly AI-grounded | 2026-09-22T12:41:09Z | 1 | 0 | ||
| npm | package | crawlee | crawlee | 167620 |
Rows come from the free sample file for this actor, not a full run. Long values are shortened and personal contact fields are left out. Source: apify-actor-samples/developer-signals.
Public data only and no authors are exported in these samples. This page shows a small sample, so counts here say nothing about the whole dataset.
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