Discover Business Ideas from HackerNews with GPT-4 & Sheets
Monitors top HackerNews posts, uses GPT-4.1 to identify business pain points, and logs results to Google Sheets for idea generation.
This n8n workflow automates the discovery of business opportunities by scraping high-engagement HackerNews front-page posts (comments >80, points >200, recent). It filters posts, extracts key metadata like title, URL, and score, fetches full article content, and employs a GPT-4.1 agent via OpenRouter to analyze for pain points, user frustrations, and potential startup ideas. Results are structured and appended to a Google Sheet for easy tracking and further analysis.
Benefits include saving hours of manual research, leveraging AI for insightful summaries, and building a database of trending market gaps. Ideal for entrepreneurs, product managers, and investors monitoring tech trends.
Use cases: Generate weekly business idea reports, validate product-market fit by tracking discussions, or integrate with other tools for deeper CRM/lead gen workflows. Setup requires OpenRouter API key and Google Sheets OAuth credentials.
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How to import this workflow into n8n
- 1Purchase or download the workflow to get the n8n workflow JSON file.
- 2In your n8n instance, open Workflows and choose "Import from File" (or paste the JSON with Ctrl+V on the canvas).
- 3Open each node marked with a credential warning and connect your own accounts and API keys.
- 4Run the workflow once manually to verify the data flow, then toggle it to Active.
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