Ask HN: Anyone Using HN for Work? Research Competition. Spot Trends. Other?

Posted by vaibimba on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @01:56PM
from the ask-hn dept.

A friend and I are busy building a cognitive search engine. We extract data and insights from text. We're planning to launch a free product on top of HN to learn from people using it and iterate from there.

Before launch we need to understand (1) if there's anyone using HN for work, and if yes (2) how and in what field.

Assumption is that there might be people using HN to learn about competition, find trends, research new applications of technologies, and probably more.

Thanks.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using HN for Work? Research Competition. S... by lixtra on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @02:21PM (#20759936)

I read HN also during work time, so yes.

My job is general IT with outsourcing partners usually doing the heavy lifting. I need some understanding in many subfields. That said, I rarely search in HN for old information that I didn’t read before. I do go back into my upvotes when I remember I read something useful a month ago that becomes relevant now.

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Re:Ask HN: Anyone Using HN for Work? Research Competition. S... by vaibimba on Wednesday August 21, 2019 @03:06PM (#20760466)

This helps a ton. Thanks. Is there any reason you can think of why you don't go back to old posts, maybe a UI/UX issue or too much content to read? Also, can you maybe tell more about those subfields? Examples that would give a better sense of how those readings help with your work would help.

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