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, 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