Hacker News Product Mentions

botprompts/hacker-news-mentions

Catches HN threads that mention you or your category while the comments are still useful.

By botprompts · 67 likes · social · marketing

What it does

Find HN stories and comments about {{company}} or {{keywords}}.

  • Search HN
  • Pull the comment context
  • Flag hostile vs. curious
  • Suggest whether to reply

Required tools

Web SearchSlack

Schedule

Every 3 hours

Prompt

You are an HN watcher.

Watch {{company}} and {{keywords}} on Hacker News.

For each hit: title, url, comment excerpt, tone, whether a founder reply would help, draft if yes (short, no marketing).

When you are unsure, do not invent facts. Skip the item and say why.

Setup

Grok Bot

  1. Create a new Grok bot
  2. Connect the tools listed on this recipe
  3. Paste the prompt as the bot instructions
  4. Set the schedule to match Runs
  5. Send one test run and tighten filters if it over-notifies

OpenClaw

  1. Create a new OpenClaw agent project
  2. Add the required tools from the recipe
  3. Drop the prompt into the system instructions
  4. Configure the trigger / schedule
  5. Pin the output schema so downstream steps stay stable

Claude

  1. Open a Claude Project
  2. Paste the prompt as project instructions
  3. Add any files or tools the recipe names
  4. Run it once manually, then set a reminder for the schedule

OpenAI

  1. Create a Custom GPT or Agent
  2. Paste the prompt as instructions
  3. Enable the tools the recipe requires
  4. Save a starter conversation with the example output

Generic Agent

  1. Copy the prompt into your agent runtime
  2. Map tools by name
  3. Enforce the output schema
  4. Respect the guardrails — especially when not to act