Track daily brand mentions from Hacker News to Slack with GPT-4o-mini sentiment analysis
Description Monitor daily brand visibility and reputation with an automated AI-powered mention tracker. 🔍🤖 This workflow checks Hacker News every morning for new stories matching your brand keyword, classifies each mention’s sentiment and urgency using GPT-4o-mini, and delivers a clean daily summary to Slack. If no mentions are found, the workflow sends a simple “no mentions today” update instead—ensuring your team is always informed without manual monitoring. Perfect for reputation tracking, co
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Track daily brand mentions from Hacker News to Slack with GPT-4o-mini sentiment analysis is a ready-made n8n workflow you import as a workflow JSON file — no build required. It connects Slack, OpenAI. It's free to download. Follow the 5-step import below to go live in minutes.
- Platform
- n8n
- Connects
- Slack, OpenAI
- Modules
- 17
- Price
- Free
- Version
- v1.0

About this workflow
Description Monitor daily brand visibility and reputation with an automated AI-powered mention tracker. 🔍🤖 This workflow checks Hacker News every morning for new stories matching your brand keyword, classifies each mention’s sentiment and urgency using GPT-4o-mini, and delivers a clean daily summary to Slack. If no mentions are found, the workflow sends a simple “no mentions today” update instead—ensuring your team is always informed without manual monitoring. Perfect for reputation tracking, competitive intelligence, and early warning alerts. 📈💬 🔁 What This Template Does 1️⃣ Triggers every morning at 09:00 to begin the analysis. ⏰ 2️⃣ Loads brand name + keyword filters from configuration. 🏷️ 3️⃣ Fetches relevant mentions from Hacker News using the Algolia API. 🌐 4️⃣ Normalizes raw API data into clean fields (title, URL, snippet, author, points). 📄 5️⃣ Classifies each mention’s sentiment, stance, topic, and urgency using GPT-4o-mini. 🤖 6️⃣ Builds a ranked daily summary including top 10 mentions and sentiment totals. 📊 7️⃣ Sends the report to Slack, formatted cleanly and ready for team consumption. 💬 8️⃣ If no mentions exist, sends a simple “no new mentions today” message. 🚫 9️⃣ Includes an error handler that notifies Slack of any workflow failures. ⚠️ ⭐ Key Benefits ✅ Automatically tracks brand presence without manual searching ✅ AI-powered sentiment & urgency analysis for deeper insights ✅ Clean Slack summaries keep teams aligned and aware ✅ Early detection of negative or high-urgency mentions ✅ Zero manual monitoring — runs fully on schedule ✅ Suitable for brand monitoring, PR, marketing, and leadership teams 🧩 Features - Daily schedule trigger - Hacker News API (Algolia) integration - Structured data normalization - GPT-4o-mini classification (sentiment, stance, topic, urgency) - Slack notifications (detailed report or no-mention message) - Error-handling pipeline with Slack alerts - Fully configurable brand keywords 🔐 Requirements - Slack API credentials - OpenAI API key (GPT-4o-mini) - No authentication required for Hacker News API - n8n with LangChain nodes enabled 🎯 Target Audience - Brand monitoring & PR teams - AI companies tracking public sentiment - Founders monitoring mentions of their product - Marketing teams watching trends & community feedback
How to import this n8n workflow
- 1
Download the workflow JSON file after purchase.
- 2
Open n8n → click the menu → Import from File.
- 3
Select the downloaded JSON and import.
- 4
Set up credentials for each node that requires them.
- 5
Click Execute Workflow to test, then activate.
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