An elegant HN client with built-in translation
Details
- External ID
- 47874981
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- An elegant HN client with built-in translation
- Website domain
- haiker.app
- Launched
- April 23, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Enrichment
- Theme
- systems tools and desktop utilities
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Dev tools
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news client with translation
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Haiker is a mobile Hacker News reader that consumes the public Firebase Hacker News API and passes comment text through a machine translation API like DeepL or Google Translate.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 919 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #827 of 920 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 172 days after the earliest competitor.
- HackerNows · hn · 2026-07-01 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- stelliberty_android · github · 2026-09-28 · 34 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Translaas · ph · 2026-09-10 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Orange Juice · hn · 2026-04-08 · 147 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- BestNAI · github · 2026-09-26 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- HackerTok · hn · 2026-02-15 · 12 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Erebus, A VPN client that runs rootless in user space · hn · 2026-06-03 · 60 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Meraki · github · 2026-09-16 · 11 upvotes · similarity 0.47
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
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