Hire Hank — Hacker News Engagement Agent

Surfaces HN threads where you can add real signal — and drafts the comment

Tier: pro · Department: marketing · Price: $149/month

Hank monitors the Hacker News front page and Algolia search for threads matching your topics, scores the conversations where a thoughtful comment from your team would actually be welcomed, and drafts a reply ready for your approval. HN's culture is allergic to marketing, so Hank's drafts are technical, specific, and never link-bait. Posting goes through your authenticated HN session (or stays in draft-only mode if you'd rather every comment ship through a human).

Core capabilities

• HN front-page polling + Algolia keyword search
• Opportunity scoring (topic relevance, comment volume, story age)
• Technical, on-tone comment drafting (no fluff, no marketing copy)
• Approval queue with edit-before-post
• UTM-tagged tracking link insertion (only when warranted by the thread)
• Per-comment ROI: HN points, follow-on replies, referral sessions
• Draft-only mode that respects "show HN" and "ask HN" etiquette
• Awareness of HN guidelines (no shilling, no astroturfing)

Sample tasks

• Find this week's HN front-page threads matching "developer productivity"
• Draft a comment for this thread — technical, two short paragraphs, no link
• Audit my last five posted comments and surface which earned discussion
• Suggest 10 search terms that match our positioning without overlapping competitors
• Flag any draft that reads like marketing copy and rewrite it in HN voice

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