Lists every Hacker News post that links to a domain, with its points, comments and the hour and weekday it was posted, in UTC. For founders who launched on Hacker News and want to see how it went, or who want to learn from a competitor's posts.
How to use it
Enter the domain of the site you want to look up. A full address also works.
- Type the domain, for example your own site, and press Analyze.
- Read the totals, then the table of posts, highest points first.
- Open a post on Hacker News to read its discussion.
- Copy the table or download it as a CSV to compare posting times and results.
How Reavlo tests this
This tool runs on our server, because a browser cannot call the Hacker News search from your page. Nothing about the request is stored or logged: not the domain, not the answer.
Source. The Hacker News Search API by Algolia, a public service that needs no key. The tool searches stories by the address they link to, reads up to 3 pages of 100 results, and keeps the posts whose address is on the domain or one of its subdomains. The address of the service is fixed in the tool: it is never taken from your input. Nothing is scraped.
Times. Every time is in UTC and is labelled so. The hour and the weekday are those of the post's creation time in UTC, not in your time zone.
Points and comments. They are the numbers Hacker News reports now, not the numbers at the time of the launch. The tool does not show how a post ranked on the front page, or for how long: the public search does not provide it.
Limits. The service allows a fixed number of requests per hour, and Reavlo shares one budget between all visitors. When the budget is spent, or the service is slow or down, the tool says so and shows what it could read. When a domain has more posts than the 300 the tool reads, the list is marked as cut. Posts that were removed, or that link through a short address, are not found.
Questions
Is the domain I enter stored?
No. It goes to our server only to run the search and is neither stored nor written to a log. Analytics records only that the tool ran, never the domain.
Does it show how long my post stayed on the front page?
No. The public search gives the points, the comments and the posting time of each post, not its position over time. The table shows the final numbers.
Why is a post of mine missing?
The search finds posts by the address they link to. A post that was removed, a text-only post, or a link through another address, such as a short link, is not found. A very busy domain is cut at 300 posts.
Which time zone are the hours in?
UTC, always. Convert the hour to your audience's time zone before you plan your own launch.