Hacker News Intelligence

Mine Hacker News for builder demand

Hacker News is where technical founders, engineers, and early adopters say exactly what they think. Reddinbox extracts structured insights from HN threads and Ask HN posts — in minutes.

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Hacker News
Live signal
Ask HN

Ask HN: What's the biggest lie in the SaaS industry that nobody talks about publicly?

847 points · 312 comments
Show HN

Show HN: I analyzed 10k support tickets and found 3 failure modes that kill 90% of B2B products before Series A

1.2k points · 228 comments
Analyzed 1,421 posts
Key Insight

Product failure modes and pricing transparency dominate HN threads — cited across 68% of Ask HN discussions on B2B product strategy.

We've been using other tools for audience insights, but the results were mostly AI-generated articles. Then using Reddinbox we could finally see where the gaps of our product were!
Josh Davidson

Josh Davidson

Product Manager at Creately

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The Problem

Researching Hacker News manually is broken

Hours wasted. Noisy data. Nothing citable to show for it.

01Signal density
HN threads are dense. Extracting them manually isn't viable.

A single Ask HN thread can hold hundreds of candid takes from technical founders, engineers, and early adopters. But finding the relevant posts, reading through every comment, and turning that into something structured is a full research project — before the analysis even starts.

02Credibility
"Someone on HN said" doesn't hold up in a decision.

Paraphrasing a comment thread isn't research. Without a way to surface patterns across hundreds of HN discussions and trace every insight back to a verifiable source, Hacker News stays an informal input — not a citable, defensible research output.

How it works

Real answers from real people

Tell us your market or competitor. Reddinbox finds the honest conversations happening online, filters out the spam, and turns them into insights you can actually use.

01Input

Just type your question

Your market. Your competitor. Your customer pain. Ask it naturally — Reddinbox handles the research from there.

Type your query...why marketers dislike ahrefs?
02Scan

Agent surfaces what search engines miss

We go beyond the top results. Low-traffic threads and niche community posts — where practitioners actually vent — get surfaced alongside the high-signal discussions.

HIDDEN INSIGHTS
03Filter

Spam, bots, and AI posts get removed

Before surfacing anything, we detect and discard posts written by ChatGPT, spam bots, and low-quality accounts. What remains is what real people actually said.

BOTBOT2 posts removed · 2 verified
04Synthesize

Real conversations combined with AI Intelligence

Every verified post feeds a model that maps pain points, patterns, and exact phrases from real social discussions. Decisions grounded in authentic human signal processed at a scale

Features

Know your market. In minutes.

Ask any research question. Reddinbox searches real social communities, filters out the noise, and returns structured insights — ready to act on.

reddinbox.com/dashboard/research

Research Results

“B2B SaaS onboarding frustrations”

587 posts
  • Opaque seat-based pricing
    31 posts
  • AI noise flooding communities
    24 posts
  • No self-serve onboarding
    13 posts

AI research agent

Your audience is talking. Here's what they said.

  • On-demand research

    Ask anything. Reddinbox searches Reddit, X, HN, and more — surfacing the most relevant real conversations in seconds.

  • AI noise filtering

    Cuts spam, bots, and AI-generated posts before they reach you. Only authentic human voices make it through.

  • Structured, citable insights

    Results come grouped by theme with sources linked — ready to copy into a doc, deck, or pitch.

Why Reddinbox

Not just another AI tool

See how Reddinbox stacks up against every alternative — and why nothing else is built for this.

Manual

DIY Research

Claude

Claude Research

AI Assistant

Perplexity

AI Search

Reddinbox

Audience Intel

Real social conversations

Hours of digging
Indexed content only
Indexed content only
Live from social media

Bot & spam filtering

Hard to detect
No filtering
No filtering
Automatic

Time to insight

3–6 hours
1 minute
1 minute
1 minute

Community-specific search

Manual subreddit hop
No live access
General web only
Deep niche coverage

Continuous monitoring

You'd have to check daily
One-shot only
One-shot only
Always on

Audience intent discovery

Needle in haystack
No real-time data
Not designed for it
Core feature

Platforms we support

Run one research workflow across all major social channels.

Who it's for

Built for people alreadyin the game.

Not for exploring ideas. For people with a job, customers, and decisions to make — who need market intelligence as an ongoing practice.

Founders

Founders

Shapes product and messaging from real customer complaints.

Market Analyst

Market Analyst

Reads community sentiment before making any move.

Industry Consultant

Industry Consultant

Walks into every briefing with fresh, traceable evidence.

Simple pricing for every stage of your business

Whether you're a solo practitioner or a team doing research at scale — everything you need to understand your market in their own words.

Starter

Most popular

For practitioners who need ongoing market intelligence

$39/mo
  • Search on Reddit & X (Twitter) & Bluesky & Hacker News & Facebook
  • ~100 conversations/month with your AI agent
  • 3 Market Briefs
  • Posts & Comments community monitoring
  • Spam and low-quality post filtering
  • Priority support

No credit card required

Pro

For power users who need unlimited research capacity

$99/mo
  • Search on Reddit, X (Twitter), Bluesky, Hacker News, Facebook
  • ~266 conversations/month with your AI agent
  • 5 Market Briefs
  • Posts & Comments community monitoring
  • Spam and low-quality post filtering
  • Priority support

No credit card required

We're confident you'll love it — if not, get a full refund within 7 days. No questions asked.

Josh
Josh
This tool gives me the actual questions people are asking so I can write content that hits, this is super cool!
Mike
Mike
Managing 10 clients used to be a nightmare for research honestly. With this I can jump between niches and get deep insights, nice
George
George
I used to get lost in the rabbit hole of forums. This keeps me focused and gives me the data I need to bill clients with confidence.
Deanna
Deanna
I didn't know where to start at the beginning, but this thing actually works. Found 3 new content angles in like 5 minutes.
Josh
Josh
This tool gives me the actual questions people are asking so I can write content that hits, this is super cool!
Mike
Mike
Managing 10 clients used to be a nightmare for research honestly. With this I can jump between niches and get deep insights, nice
George
George
I used to get lost in the rabbit hole of forums. This keeps me focused and gives me the data I need to bill clients with confidence.
Deanna
Deanna
I didn't know where to start at the beginning, but this thing actually works. Found 3 new content angles in like 5 minutes.
Josh
Josh
This tool gives me the actual questions people are asking so I can write content that hits, this is super cool!
Mike
Mike
Managing 10 clients used to be a nightmare for research honestly. With this I can jump between niches and get deep insights, nice
George
George
I used to get lost in the rabbit hole of forums. This keeps me focused and gives me the data I need to bill clients with confidence.
Deanna
Deanna
I didn't know where to start at the beginning, but this thing actually works. Found 3 new content angles in like 5 minutes.
Josh
Josh
This tool gives me the actual questions people are asking so I can write content that hits, this is super cool!
Mike
Mike
Managing 10 clients used to be a nightmare for research honestly. With this I can jump between niches and get deep insights, nice
George
George
I used to get lost in the rabbit hole of forums. This keeps me focused and gives me the data I need to bill clients with confidence.
Deanna
Deanna
I didn't know where to start at the beginning, but this thing actually works. Found 3 new content angles in like 5 minutes.
Lucas
Lucas
The scalable research is a lifesaver. I don't have to spend days learning a new industry anymore. My writers love the briefs I'm sending now.
Tom
Tom
If you're still manually searching Reddit, you're doing it wrong. This saved me so much time this week. Nice job guys!
Rodrigo
Rodrigo
My boss asked why our blog traffic is up. I told him I stopped guessing topics and started using Reddinbox lmao
Juan
Juan
It's like having a research assistant that doesn't sleep and the insights are scary good.
Sahaj
Sahaj
Structured research without the distraction, this is exactly what I needed!!
Lucas
Lucas
The scalable research is a lifesaver. I don't have to spend days learning a new industry anymore. My writers love the briefs I'm sending now.
Tom
Tom
If you're still manually searching Reddit, you're doing it wrong. This saved me so much time this week. Nice job guys!
Rodrigo
Rodrigo
My boss asked why our blog traffic is up. I told him I stopped guessing topics and started using Reddinbox lmao
Juan
Juan
It's like having a research assistant that doesn't sleep and the insights are scary good.
Sahaj
Sahaj
Structured research without the distraction, this is exactly what I needed!!
Lucas
Lucas
The scalable research is a lifesaver. I don't have to spend days learning a new industry anymore. My writers love the briefs I'm sending now.
Tom
Tom
If you're still manually searching Reddit, you're doing it wrong. This saved me so much time this week. Nice job guys!
Rodrigo
Rodrigo
My boss asked why our blog traffic is up. I told him I stopped guessing topics and started using Reddinbox lmao
Juan
Juan
It's like having a research assistant that doesn't sleep and the insights are scary good.
Sahaj
Sahaj
Structured research without the distraction, this is exactly what I needed!!
Lucas
Lucas
The scalable research is a lifesaver. I don't have to spend days learning a new industry anymore. My writers love the briefs I'm sending now.
Tom
Tom
If you're still manually searching Reddit, you're doing it wrong. This saved me so much time this week. Nice job guys!
Rodrigo
Rodrigo
My boss asked why our blog traffic is up. I told him I stopped guessing topics and started using Reddinbox lmao
Juan
Juan
It's like having a research assistant that doesn't sleep and the insights are scary good.
Sahaj
Sahaj
Structured research without the distraction, this is exactly what I needed!!
Frequently Asked Questions

Got questions? We've got answers.

Why is Hacker News valuable for product research?
Hacker News attracts a dense concentration of technical founders, engineers, investors, and early adopters who discuss products, tooling, and market trends with unusual candor. The signal-to-noise ratio is high, and the community regularly surfaces problems and opinions you won't find elsewhere — making it one of the best sources for understanding what builders and sophisticated buyers actually think.
What types of Hacker News posts does Reddinbox analyze?
Reddinbox analyzes publicly available Hacker News content — including Ask HN threads, Show HN posts, general discussion threads, and comment sections. It clusters recurring themes across multiple posts to surface patterns rather than individual opinions.
Is HN research only useful for B2B or developer tools?
Primarily developer tools, SaaS, infrastructure, and technical products — but also founder-focused topics like marketing, hiring, pricing, and growth. If your product serves technical buyers or early-adopter audiences, Hacker News is one of the richest research sources available.
Does it filter out low-quality or off-topic HN comments?
Yes. Reddinbox filters out low-engagement comments, tangential threads, and noise before returning results. Insights come from substantive discussions with real engagement — the kind of signal worth building on.
Can I trace insights back to specific HN threads?
Yes. Every insight links to its original Hacker News thread or comment. You can verify the source, share the link with your team, or cite it directly in a brief or strategy document.
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