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A survey tracking developer sentiment on AI-assisted coding through Hacker News posts.
HN · launched Feb 2, 2026 · 16 upvotes (top 34%) · 1 view
Niche: sentiment analysis software · 32 launches, 0 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Analytics & BI
- B2C
- AI feature
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Yes The project scrapes Hacker News posts/comments via the Algolia API, classifies their sentiment using an LLM or standard NLP library, and displays the scores on a Svelte frontend.
Discussion
2 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Data filtering may include non-developers and managers, Averages not representative of actual expert opinions, Difficulty distinguishing between actual developers and managers
Feature requests: Categorize comments by commenter expertise level, Filter out manager/non-developer responses
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1742 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #524 of 1743 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 96 days after the earliest competitor.
- VibeDrift · hn · 2026-06-25 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Atrophy · hn · 2026-07-07 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Viberuler · hn · 2026-10-08 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Benchmark your team's AI coding security posture · hn · 2025-11-05 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Is AI Dumber Today? An index of AI model experience from user's opinion · hn · 2026-08-14 · 17 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- sloppy · github · 2026-09-10 · 13 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Pod · hn · 2026-09-07 · 10 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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