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Hi HN,Sharing HN Insights, a webapp I built that highlights trending themes and summarizes discussion threads from the front page.This started earlier this week as a toy project to test out Gemini 3 Pro in aistudio. I found the POC useful, so I decided to productionize it. I've included the original seed prompt below:> Create an app that creates a summary of the comment threads for hacker news front page. The UX should be similar, but clicking the comments instead opens a summary. The summary is generated when clicked so it can gather new threads.To productionize, I used Claude Code and heavy use of Agent SOPs (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45998644).
HN · launched Nov 22, 2025 · 8 upvotes (top 56%) · 0 views
Niche: ai text summarization and editing tools · 40 launches, 1 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Content generation
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes It is a scheduled scraping and summarization app that fetches the Hacker News front page and runs threads through the Gemini API.
Discussion
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Competitors mentioned: Insights.hn
Feature requests: HN user login and upvote functionality, one-time purchase + BYO keys pricing option
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 110 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #64 of 111 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.
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