📊 Track daily brand mentions from Hacker News to Slack with GPT-4o-mini sentiment analysis
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Description
📊 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
🔗 Nodes Used
HTTP Request, Slack, Schedule Trigger, AI Agent, OpenAI Chat Model, Simple Memory
📥 Import
Download workflow.json and import into n8n:
Workflow menu → Import from File