Surface highest-scoring Hacker News posts by custom timeframe and filters

Surface highest-scoring Hacker News posts by custom timeframe and filters targets a $1.2B = 10M tech professionals × $120 ACV total addressable market with medium saturation and a year-over-year growth rate of 8-12% YoY — niche paid curation and micro-SaaS tools growth driven by increasing subscriptionization of productivity tools (industry synthesis).

Key trends driving demand: Paid micro-SaaS adoption — more prosumers pay small monthly fees for niche productivity tools, creating steady revenue for focused products.; Signal-focused discovery demand — users are fatigued by recency-first feeds and increasingly seek quality-weighted discovery across forums.; API-first aggregation — public indexes and search APIs (like Algolia) make building mirrors and filtered views fast, lowering time-to-market.; AI enrichment for discovery — sentiment, summarization, and early-virality predictions create higher perceived value when combined with basic filtering..