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Hacker News monitoring for every comment that names you

Rumoro reads every new Hacker News story and comment every 5 minutes, finds the ones about your product, competitors or topic, and sends them to Slack, a webhook or your AI agent.

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Illustrative stories and comments
  • Stories + comments

    Every comment on the site, including the ones buried deep in a thread.

  • Every 5 minutes

    Each check reads its whole time window, so a busy hour isn't cut short.

  • Exact spelling

    No near-misses filling your feed. Add other spellings as separate keywords.

  • Day one

    A new keyword reads back the newest 10 from the last 30 days straight away.

How it works

How Hacker News monitoring works in Rumoro

Set it up once in the dashboard or with one API call, then stop refreshing the front page.

Railway

+ deploy+ postgres− train

Name what to follow

Your product, a competitor, an open-source project or a topic. Add words that must or mustn’t appear when the name has another meaning.

query=Railway  tags=(story,comment)  typoTolerance=false
  1. 09:00
  2. 09:05
  3. 09:10
  4. 09:15

Rumoro reads Hacker News every 5 minutes

Every new story and comment, through the public Algolia search, with exact spelling. Each match is scored against how you describe your company.

  • Ask HN · Postgres on Railway in production?88
  • The history of railway time zones…4
  • comment · Moved our staging to Railway…76

You hear about it while the thread is live

Each alert sets its own relevance bar and filters on sentiment and intent, such as questions, comparisons, bug reports, churn or praise, then sends the match to Slack, Telegram, email, a webhook or your agent.

Show HN

Launching with a Show HN? Know about every comment

A Show HN or Launch HN thread moves fast, and the questions that decide how it goes often sit three replies deep. Add your product name before you post.

  • Questions in your own thread reach Slack within minutes
  • Mentions in other threads are caught too, not just your launch post
  • The note on each alert says whether someone is asking, comparing or reporting a bug

  1. Show HN: Rumoro – social listening for AI agents

    You post

  2. How is this different from running Algolia searches myself?

    Question · alert in #launch

  3. Pricing looks fair, but does it cover comments?

    Question · alert in #launch

  4. Mentioned in another thread about brand monitoring

    Comparison · alert in #launch

Hacker News alerts

Four recipes for Hacker News keyword alerts

What to follow, the search it becomes and the alert your team gets. Pick one.

Choose a keyword recipe

1Keyword

Rumoro

2Search across stories and comments, every 5 minutes

query=Rumoro  tags=(story,comment)  typoTolerance=false

3Alert when

QuestionRelevance ≥ 60

Use the name people type in a comment, and add the domain as a second keyword. Hacker News readers often paste the link instead of the name.

# hn-mentionsRumoro · APP

❓ Question about Rumoro

Hacker News · Rumoro · ⚪ neutral · question

jkowal

Ask HN: Has anyone used Rumoro to track mentions of their startup?

A founder asking for first-hand experience. Answer in the thread with what Rumoro does and doesn't do.

Open on Hacker NewsOpen in RumoroInteractedMute jkowal

1Keyword

Mentio

2Search across stories and comments, every 5 minutes

query=Mentio  tags=(story,comment)  typoTolerance=false

3Alert when

ComparisonComplaint

Competitors come up in Ask HN threads and under launch posts. Get alerted when someone compares tools or complains, and skip the rest.

# hn-mentionsRumoro · APP

⚖️ Comparison involving Mentio

Hacker News · Mentio · ⚪ neutral · comparison

mvdberg

We tried Mentio and Rumoro side by side for a month. Both read HN fine, the difference was in the alerts.

A detailed comparison in a busy thread. Worth a calm, factual reply.

Open on Hacker NewsOpen in RumoroInteractedMute mvdberg

1Keyword

tidequeue

2Search across stories and comments, every 5 minutes

query=tidequeue  tags=(story,comment)  typoTolerance=false

3Alert when

Bug reportQuestion

Track the project's name to catch bug reports and questions in threads you'd never open, then answer before the thread goes quiet.

# hn-mentionsRumoro · APP

🐞 Bug report about tidequeue

Hacker News · tidequeue · 🔴 negative · bug report

ttal

tidequeue drops jobs for us when Postgres fails over. Is that a known issue?

A user reporting a failover bug in a public thread. A maintainer reply with a link to the issue helps.

Open on Hacker NewsOpen in RumoroInteractedMute ttal

1Keyword

Railway

Require anydeployhostingpostgres

Excludetrainstation

2Search across stories and comments, every 5 minutes

query=Railway  tags=(story,comment)  typoTolerance=false

3Alert when

Relevance ≥ 70

A name like Railway also means trains. Require a word your users write with it and exclude the ones that never mean you. Excluded items aren't stored or billed.

# hn-mentionsRumoro · APP

❓ Question about Railway

Hacker News · Railway · ⚪ neutral · question

keelhaul

Is anyone running Postgres on Railway in production? How do backups work there?

A developer asking about running a database on Railway.

Open on Hacker NewsOpen in RumoroInteractedMute keelhaul

Fictional stories and comments. Required and excluded words are checked on every item Rumoro reads.

Search or monitor

Hacker News search on Algolia, the API, or monitoring

All three read the same public index. They differ in who keeps checking, how spelling is handled and what reaches you.

QuestionHacker News searchBuilding on the Algolia APIRumoro
Who runs the searchHacker News searchYou, each time you lookBuilding on the Algolia APIYour code, on a schedule you hostRumoroRumoro, every 5 minutes for each keyword
Stories and commentsHacker News searchBothBuilding on the Algolia APIBothRumoroBoth, with the story's title kept on every comment
SpellingHacker News searchNear-spellings mixed inBuilding on the Algolia APINear-spellings unless you turn typo tolerance offRumoroExact spelling only
Busy hoursHacker News searchWhatever fits on the pageBuilding on the Algolia APIYou page through results and track what you've seenRumoroReads each time window in full and keeps its place
NoiseHacker News searchEvery item with the wordBuilding on the Algolia APIEvery item with the wordRumoroScored 0–100 against your company, bots flagged and muted authors kept out for good
AlertsHacker News searchNoneBuilding on the Algolia APIYours to build and runRumoroSlack, Telegram, email digests and signed webhooks
AgentsHacker News searchCopy and pasteBuilding on the Algolia APIYour own MCP server on topRumoroMCP with scored, source-linked mentions from every platform

Coming from F5Bot? F5Bot and Rumoro compared →

What you get

What Rumoro keeps from each Hacker News item

Enough to understand a comment without opening the thread, and the link when you want to.

  • Stories

    The title, any text, the link it points to, its points and its number of comments.

  • Comments

    The comment cleaned to plain text, the title of the story it sits under and a link to the comment it answers.

  • Author

    The Hacker News username with their karma, linked to their profile, and every other time they mentioned you.

  • Classification

    Relevance from 0 to 100 against your company, sentiment, intent and a short note on why it matters.

Beyond alerts

Hacker News tracking beyond the alert

Know where you stand against competitors, who keeps bringing you up, and which keywords pay for themselves.

Your share of voice

Compare how often Hacker News brings you up against your competitors, week by week.

The commenters behind the mentions

Each username that mentions you gets a profile with your tags, your notes and all their stories and comments.

Stories or comments

Look at launches and Ask HN posts on their own, or only at what people say in the threads.

Posts that link to you

Links in matched stories and comments are kept, so you can see which threads send readers to your site.

Keyword health

See which keywords bring useful threads and which mostly bring noise, with suggestions on what to exclude.

Needs attention

An hourly check for sudden spikes, a run of negative comments, noisy keywords or a channel that stopped delivering.

Digests for quieter keywords

Get one daily or weekly summary in Slack, Telegram or email instead of an alert for every comment.

Views, filters and export

Narrow the feed by sentiment, intent or author, keep it as a saved view and download it as CSV.

Hacker News MCP, API, SDKs and CLI

Hacker News mentions for your agent, over MCP and API

Rumoro's MCP server gives Claude, Cursor or Codex your Hacker News stories and comments with their scores and links. Your agent sorts them and drafts replies for you to check.

API reference ↗

Questions on Hacker News with a relevance of at least 60.

curl --get 'https://api.rumoro.dev/v1/mentions' \
  --header "Authorization: Bearer $RUMORO_API_KEY" \
  --data-urlencode 'platform=hackernews' \
  --data-urlencode 'minRelevance=60' \
  --data-urlencode 'intent=question'

200Response · REST, SDKs and CLI

{
  "data": [
    {
      "id": "c41d…",
      "keyword": { "term": "rumoro" },
      "post": {
        "platform": "hackernews",
        "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=…",
        "text": "We replaced the cron job that polled Algolia with Rumoro, mostly for the MCP access."
      },
      "author": { "handle": "mvdberg", "followers": null },
      "classification": {
        "relevance": 86,
        "sentiment": "positive",
        "intents": ["comparison"],
        "note": "A user explaining why they switched, in a thread about brand monitoring."
      }
    }
  ],
  "nextCursor": null
}

Coverage, alerts and cost

Hacker News monitoring questions

How do I get alerts when my company is mentioned on Hacker News?

Add your product name as a keyword. Rumoro reads every new Hacker News story and comment every 5 minutes, scores the ones that name you for relevance, sentiment and intent, and sends the ones you care about to Slack, Telegram, email, a webhook or your AI agent.

Does Rumoro track Hacker News comments or only stories?

Both. Every comment is read, including replies deep in a thread, and each one keeps the title of the story it sits under so you know the context before you open it.

How often does Rumoro check Hacker News?

Every 5 minutes for each keyword. Each check reads its whole time window, so a busy hour isn't cut short. A new keyword also reads back the newest 10 from the last 30 days, billed as normal mentions.

How do I search Hacker News for mentions of my brand?

Hacker News search, often called HN search, runs on Algolia and finds stories and comments with your name when you look, and it also shows near-spellings. Rumoro runs that search for you on a schedule with exact spelling, scores what it finds and sends the relevant items to you.

What is HN Algolia?

HN Algolia, at hn.algolia.com, is the search engine for Hacker News that Algolia runs and Hacker News links to from every page. It finds stories and comments by keyword and date. Rumoro reads the same index through its public API, runs your searches every 5 minutes and alerts you about new matches.

Is there a Hacker News RSS feed for keywords?

Yes. hnrss.org offers free RSS feeds of new Hacker News posts and comments that contain a keyword, which gives you every match in a feed reader. Rumoro scores each match against your company instead and sends only the relevant ones to Slack, Telegram, email, a webhook or your agent.

Can Rumoro watch my Show HN launch?

Yes. Add your product name before you post. Questions in your Show HN thread, and mentions of you anywhere else on Hacker News, reach your Slack within minutes while people are still reading.

What API does Rumoro use for Hacker News?

The public Algolia Hacker News Search API, the same search linked from the bottom of Hacker News. It needs no key and nothing is scraped. Rumoro turns off typo tolerance so only exact matches come back.

Is the Hacker News API free?

Yes. Both the official Hacker News API and the Algolia search API are public and free to use without a key. What they leave to you is polling, keeping track of what you've already seen, filtering out noise and sending alerts, which is the part Rumoro runs.

Does Rumoro catch misspellings of my name?

No, matching is exact, which keeps near-misses out of your feed. If people often misspell your name, add the common spellings as separate keywords.

Is there a free Hacker News monitoring tool?

F5Bot has a free plan for 5 keywords that emails you raw keyword matches from Hacker News, Reddit and Lobsters. Rumoro starts every account with $5.80 of credit and no card, enough for your first keyword for a month and 100 mentions on top. After that it's $5 a keyword a month and $0.008 per match.

Can I get Hacker News alerts in Slack?

Yes. Connect Slack once and each alert rule posts its matches to a channel with the headline, sentiment and intent, the comment or story with its author's karma, the AI relevance score, a note on why it matters and buttons to open it, mark it handled or mute the author.

Is there a Hacker News MCP server for brand mentions?

Rumoro's MCP server works as one. Claude, Cursor, Codex or any MCP client can search and triage your Hacker News mentions next to every other platform and draft the replies.

How much does Hacker News monitoring cost?

$5 per keyword a month, charged by the day, plus $0.008 per matched story or comment. There's no subscription. You top up a balance, and a new account starts with $5.80 of credit and no card.

Learn more

More on Hacker News monitoring, MCP and the API

One keyword, every platform

Hacker News is one of 16 sources

Add a keyword once and it listens everywhere you choose, scored the same way and sent to the same alerts, API and agent.

Be in the thread while it’s still on the front page

Your first keyword is on us. $5.80 of credit, no card.

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