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Hacker News on WhatsApp: manage hackernews posts with an AI agent
Flann turns Hacker News into something you can message. Ask on WhatsApp, by text or voice note, and Flann does the work in Hacker News for you. Teaching a course, running classes or keeping up with your trade all produce small, repeated jobs. Flann takes on the reading and the drafting in Hacker News. You keep the decisions.
14 actions in Hacker News. All of them only look things up, so nothing in Hacker News is ever changed. It needs no login.
What you can ask Flann to do in Hacker News
You do not need the exact wording. These are the kinds of messages Flann turns into Hacker News actions.
“Look up the item in Hacker News.”
“Find hackernews posts in Hacker News.”
“Look up the hackernews item in Hacker News.”
What Flann can work with in Hacker News
Hacker News gives Flann 14 actions across 12 kinds of record. These are the ones you are most likely to use.
| Record | What Flann can do | Actions |
|---|---|---|
| Hackernews posts | look upsearch | 2 |
Here is what changes when Hacker News goes through Flann instead of its own screens.
| Compare | Opening Hacker NewsLog in, find it, do it | Hacker News through FlannAsk and get it done |
|---|---|---|
| Getting started on a job | Log in and click through the screens | Text or voice note, in your own words |
| Looking things up about hackernews posts | By hand, screen by screen | 14 look-ups, answered straight away |
| Hacker News records | All of them, one screen at a time | 12 kinds, from one chat |
| Set-up | Nothing new to set up | Nothing: add it and ask |
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Step by step: Hacker News jobs you can hand to Flann
How a request turns into real Hacker News actions, one step at a time.
Get answers about your hackernews posts
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our hackernews posts in Hacker News?”
- Flann runs
Search Hackernews PostsandGet Latest Hackernews Postsin Hacker News and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Hacker News is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Check your items from WhatsApp
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “Show me where our items in Hacker News stand.”
- Flann runs
Get Hacker News Itemin Hacker News and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Hacker News is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Get answers about your stories
- You message Flann on WhatsApp: “What is the latest on our stories in Hacker News?”
- Flann runs
Get New Hacker News Storiesin Hacker News and shows you what it found. - Nothing in Hacker News is changed: these are look-ups, so they run straight away.
Where Flann saves you time in Hacker News
Small jobs, repeated often, are where the time goes. Here is how they change once Hacker News is connected.
Industry news, briefly
Today
Keeping up with your trade means skimming feeds and newsletters you rarely finish. The useful item is usually buried.
With Flann
“Anything in Hacker News today that matters for a small bakery?”
Flann reads today’s items in Hacker News and picks the few that touch your kind of business. Each one gets a sentence of explanation and a line on why it might matter to you. Nothing changes; it is a briefing you can read standing up.
What you stop doing: You stop scrolling feeds in the hope of spotting the one relevant story.
Feedback after a workshop
Today
After a workshop or course you want to know how it landed. Collecting and reading the comments keeps getting pushed to next week.
With Flann
“What did people say about Saturday’s workshop?”
Flann reads the feedback recorded in Hacker News and gives you the main points, good and bad. Comments that sound like complaints are flagged and routed to whoever on your team should handle them.
What you stop doing: Feedback no longer sits unread until it stops mattering.
More on this: how to hand repetitive tasks to an AI agent on WhatsApp.
How Flann connects to Hacker News
- Open Connectors in Flann and choose Hacker News.
- There is no login. Hacker News works as soon as you add it.
- Ask Flann for what you need on WhatsApp, by text or voice note. It picks the right Hacker News action itself.
Of the 14 Hacker News actions, 14 only read. The other 0 create, update, send or delete. Disconnect Hacker News in Connectors whenever you like.
Ways to use Hacker News with Flann
Make changes safely
Tell Flann what to do.
Part of a bigger job
Flann can use Hacker News alongside your other apps when a request needs more than one.
Ask instead of opening it
Ask Flann for what you need from Hacker News. It looks it up and answers in the chat.
Everything Flann can do in Hacker News
Every Hacker News action Flann can run, split into what it reads and what it changes.
Looks up 14
- Get Best HackerNews Stories
- Get Hacker News Item
- Get HackerNews User by Username
- Get New Hacker News Stories
- Get Top HackerNews Stories
- Get Ask HN Story IDs
- Get Hacker News Updates
- Get Hacker News User
- Get Hackernews Item
- Get Job Story IDs
- Get Latest Hackernews Posts
- Get Max Item ID
- Get Show HN Stories
- Search Hackernews Posts
Changes 0
None.
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Common questions
What can Flann do with hackernews posts in Hacker News?
Flann can look up and search hackernews posts in Hacker News, using 2 actions (Get Latest Hackernews Posts, Search Hackernews Posts). All of them only look things up, so they run straight away.
How does Flann connect to Hacker News?
Hacker News needs no login. Add it in Connectors and Flann can use its 14 actions straight away.
Do I need to open Hacker News to use it with Flann?
No. Once Hacker News is connected, you ask Flann on WhatsApp or in the Flann app, by text or voice note, and it does the work in Hacker News.
Does connecting Hacker News cost extra?
No. Hacker News is included in every Flann plan, along with every other app Flann connects to.