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daoco researches Hacker News and prepares response briefs. It does not write or edit text for HN, and it never submits, votes, or comments. Hacker News prohibits generated and AI-edited text, so you write every word that you post. No Hacker News account connection is needed. Relevant results appear under Social > Conversations, alongside Reddit threads and follow-ups. See Community conversations.

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Search Hacker News

Ask in brand chat and daoco searches HN’s public index for stories or comments, filtered by date, points, or author.
Useful things to ask for:
  • Reception of a competitor. The top comment on their launch is usually the objection waiting for yours.
  • Whether a problem is considered solved. If a well-loved open-source tool covers most of it, HN will name it, so you want to name it first.
  • Citations for AI search. HN threads get quoted by AI answer engines, so they show up in SEO and GEO work as a real source.
  • A duplicate check before you launch. Ask daoco to search your exact URL and your bare domain. A URL submitted inside the last year or so is treated as a duplicate and goes nowhere.

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Decide whether to post at all

Ask daoco to load the Hacker News Launch skill before planning anything. Its first job is to talk you out of a launch that will not land, and a clear “do not post this” is a real answer.
It will say no when there is nothing to try without a signup wall, when the product’s value is the go-to-market rather than the thing, when the differentiation is a claim someone will benchmark in the thread, when nobody can sit in the thread for the next six hours, or when the URL was already submitted.

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Prepare your submission

When a launch makes sense, daoco gives you the evidence and constraints to write it yourself.
The brief covers duplicate history, likely objections, title constraints, technical facts worth explaining, current limitations, pricing, and the questions you want the thread to answer. It does not contain copy to paste into HN.

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Post it yourself: the hand-off flow

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Write the submission

Write the title, body, and any first comment yourself. Do not ask daoco to edit them.
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Open Hacker News

Give daoco your exact title and text if you want a hand-off. The Hacker News panel passes that copy through unchanged and opens the submit page with the title filled in. A title over 80 characters is rejected rather than trimmed, because shortening it is your edit to make. For a text post, copy your body from the panel into the form.
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Submit from your account

Submit from your account. Write any comments yourself.
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Mark as posted

Back in daoco, choose Mark as posted and paste the item link, for example https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12345678. daoco records the submission against your brand. Pasted the wrong link? Choose Update link on the posted submission.
Changed your mind before posting? Choose Discard on the panel. Nothing was submitted, and the hand-off closes.

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Current limits

  • No generated or AI-edited text. daoco supplies research and response briefs, never copy to post on Hacker News.
  • No automated posting, voting, or commenting. Every submission is a manual hand-off.
  • Never ask anyone to upvote. Voting rings are detected and the penalty is a silent burial with no notification. Telling your team a post is live is fine; asking them to vote is how a launch dies.
  • Conversation monitoring is available. Add the Conversation Monitor automation to check Reddit and Hacker News every two hours.
  • Post metrics are not tracked. daoco records the item link you confirm, not the score or comment count.