HN Insights
HN front page summaries
Details
- External ID
- 46018017
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- HN Insights
- Website domain
- hn-insights.com
- Launched
- Nov. 22, 2025
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 8
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4421397379912664
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
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).
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Analytics & BI
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news daily summary generator
- Manually corrected
- False
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
1 comment analyzed.
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 — 75 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #46 of 76 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 24 days after the earliest competitor.
- HN Companion · hn · 2026-02-10 · 31 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Turning 100-plus comments HN threads into readable discussions · hn · 2026-01-02 · 20 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- I built an interactive HN Simulator · hn · 2025-11-24 · 538 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- 20 years of Hacker News discussions, clustered and visualized · hn · 2026-03-22 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- A self-hosted AI that turns Hacker News into a daily briefing · hn · 2026-07-19 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- Gemini Pro 3 imagines the HN front page 10 years from now · hn · 2025-12-09 · 3346 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- I built a tool that helps predict HN front page success · hn · 2026-05-03 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- One RSS Feed for the Most Popular HN Bloggers (2025 Rankings) · hn · 2026-01-13 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a analytics & bi tool for Legal yet.