Hacker News submissions, done right
PulseCraft writes and schedules Hacker News submissions — Tell HN, Ask HN, Show HN — with titles that follow the community's conventions and a voice that won't get flagged. No mainstream scheduler supports Hacker News. PulseCraft does.
Fact box
- Content types: Tell HN, Ask HN, Show HN
- Character limit: unlimited (text)
- Media: text only
What the AI does on Hacker News
Hacker News is unforgiving about tone and merciless about titles — the wrong framing dies on /newest. The engine knows the conventions: it writes titles in the platform's plain, claim-first style (no clickbait, no marketing adjectives) and tags submissions correctly as Tell HN, Ask HN, or Show HN based on intent.
The body is text-only by design — HN doesn't do media — so the language layer carries everything: a direct, technical register that reads like a builder, not a brand. For a developer-tools or technical company, this is the network where authenticity is the entire game, and it's exactly what the brand language layer is built to protect.
Buffer, Hootsuite, Sprout Social, and Later do not publish to Hacker News. PulseCraft does. (Compared against their public channel lists, 2026-06.)
Submissions schedule like any other content type, and you approve each one — HN is the last place you want an autopilot misfire.
Workflow
source → plan · write HN-convention title + body → HN preview → publish
Questions, answered
Does it follow Hacker News title conventions?
Yes. Titles are written plain and claim-first, without clickbait or marketing language, and submissions are tagged as Tell / Ask / Show HN by intent.
Is media supported?
No — Hacker News is text-only, and the engine writes for that constraint.
Do other social tools post to Hacker News?
No major scheduler publishes to Hacker News. PulseCraft is built to (compared 2026-06).
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