Hackernews is where developers, VCs and everyone in between share tools, compare options, and give their brutal opinions.
Mentionkit gives you Hacker News monitoring and keyword alerts so you can find useful technical discussions and respond when you can help.
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Orbitlane CRM works well for our five-person company, but bulk editing still feels slow.
Hacker News is where builders launch products, debate software, and share technical problems. Keyword tracking helps you find the posts that are talking about your product.
Catch Show HN posts, product discussions, and recommendation threads that mention your product or category.
Hackernews posts are cited in LLMs. Increase mentions of your product on the platform and boost your AI search visibility.
See what your competitors are launching. Tech companies often use HN to soft launch your product(multiple times) or features. Tracking such posts gives you a good idea of how they are perceived and what their shortcomings are.
Keyword tracking finds brand, competitor, and buyer-intent mentions. Scores and auto-tags help you sort them. Trackers and integrations help you act fast.
productwatcherMentionkit looks interesting. Saving this for later.
/r/SaaSHas anyone tried Mentionkit for tracking buyer conversations?
Mentionkit scores each mention by relevance. Review useful mentions first without sorting through hundreds of low-value matches.
All mentions are automatically tagged. Save time by filtering for the right mentions.
Track keywords across Slack workspaces by connecting them to your account. You do not need to be an admin of the workspace to connect it.
With trackers you can directly track Reddit subreddits, connected Slack workspaces and more.
Whenever someone is talking about your product or anything related to it, we'll show you that convo.
Use MCP and the API to read mentions, or send new mentions to Slack and other tools with webhooks.
Better hackernews monitoring starts with focused keyword buckets. Here is a practical template for a developer tool called BuildLane.
your brand name, your product name, your brand reviews, common misspellings
competitor name, competitor vs your brand, competitor alternative, switching from competitor
best category tool, looking for category, need help with problem, category recommendations
$49/month
Billed monthly
10 keywords · 10 trackers · 1 project · Unlimited mentions · 5 team seats
Common questions about Hackernews monitoring and hackernews keyword alerts tools.
"Mentionkit is the only listening tool that actively caters for founder-led products. We use it for monitoring our product mentions and keeping tabs on our competitors."
Start your free trial, launch your first keyword group, and turn Hackernews threads into action.
