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Find customers on Hacker News
RanklyBee watches Hacker News stories and comments for people asking for a tool like yours or mentioning a competitor, and scores each one against your ideal customer.
What you get
Hacker News and RanklyBee, working together.
Scored against your ideal customer
Posts scoring 40 or more become leads: Explore from 40, Warm from 55 and Hot from 70, with the reason for each score quoted.
Replies you post yourself
Draft a reply in a Peer, Expert or Founder tone, edit it and post it from your own Hacker News account.
A pipeline, not a feed
Move leads from To qualify to To contact, In conversation and Closed, with the evidence a click away.
Alerts where you work
Send hot leads and competitor mentions to email, Slack, Discord or a webhook the moment they are found.
Setup
Start watching Hacker News in a few minutes.
Nothing is posted or sent for you. You pick the leads and reply from your own account.
- 01
Enter your website. RanklyBee reads it, describes your ideal customer and proposes the keywords to track.
- 02
Select Hacker News under Leads → Sources. New stories and comments that match your keywords are scanned on the schedule you choose.
- 03
Every matching post is scored from 0 to 100 against your ideal customer, and the ones worth your time land in your lead pipeline with the reason quoted.
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