Use Case
Stop doing repetitive marketing & growth tasks manually. Hacker News lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. Search and browse Hacker News with API access to stories, comments, users, and hiring threads. This guide shows practical examples of using Hacker News to automate common marketing & growth workflows and save hours every week.
Install Hacker News: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hacker-news
Identify the repetitive marketing & growth tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
Hacker News will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing Hacker News
Automate my marketing & growth tasks using Hacker News
What repetitive tasks can Hacker News handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs Hacker News every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install hacker-newsOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install hacker-newsβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/hacker-news/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.