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Put Hacker News to workacross your business

Automate Hacker News workflows across the tools your team uses every day. MindCloud helps you connect apps, move data, and keep business processes running.

Describe what you want to automate in Hacker News. The field supports multiple lines but stays at a fixed height.

Businesses automate real work through MindCloud every day.

Get connected

Connect Hacker News with other apps you use to automate business processes, not just small tasks.

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Every action you need

Access 50 actions within Hacker News.
Can’t find an action you need? Let us know.

Get Ask StoryRun a get ask story action in Hacker News.Get Ask Story ID By RankRun a get ask story ID by rank action in Hacker News.Get Ask Story IDsRun a get ask story ids action in Hacker News.Get Best Story ID By RankRun a get best story ID by rank action in Hacker News.Get Best Story IDsRun a get best story ids action in Hacker News.Get Item Child ID By IndexRun a get item child ID by index action in Hacker News.Get CommentRun a get comment action in Hacker News.Get ItemRun a get item action in Hacker News.Get Item AuthorRun a get item author action in Hacker News.Get Item Child IDsRun a get item child ids action in Hacker News.Get Item Dead FlagRun a get item dead flag action in Hacker News.Get Item Deleted FlagRun a get item deleted flag action in Hacker News.Get Item Descendant CountRun a get item descendant count action in Hacker News.Get Item IDRun a get item ID action in Hacker News.Get Item ScoreRun a get item score action in Hacker News.

How can I use the Hacker News app?

MindCloud is the Universal App Layer. We make it easy to talk to your applications, whatever the use case.

Build workflows. MindCloud’s Gravity platform helps you build robust automations around Hacker News.

Get Hacker News itemsTrigger

Fetched items from Hacker News

Filter to complete items

Applied filter to items

Loop through 5 items

Iterating over each item

Check if item is complete

Condition: item has required fields
then

Skip and continue

Skipped - item already complete
else

Check if item needs review

Condition: item needs review

Save review note in Notion

Added review context for item

Read latest tech news articles in Hacker News.

Thinking...

Automate. Tell Cirra what you do in Hacker News so she can take the grunt work out of your job.

Wire your product. Our Universal REST API lets you easily connect and talk to Hacker News from your codebase.

Connect to your Agent. Expose your agent to Hacker News and 3100+ other applications with a single MCP server.

Frequently asked questions

New to MindCloud? We've got you. Here are some answers to common questions about how MindCloud works with Hacker News.

MindCloud connects Hacker News with the rest of your business systems so teams can automate updates, alerts, and record changes without building one-off scripts.

Connect all of your apps, not just some of them.

You can't automate business processes end-to-end if you can only connect to half of them.

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