21st April 2026

Hacker News is now live in Trigify. If you want funding signals, this one is for you.

Every week, companies announce funding on Hacker News before it hits Crunchbase or LinkedIn. Founders post raises, YC batches go public, and "Who's hiring" threads surface companies that are actively scaling. By the time that news reaches your feed, every other sales team has already seen it.

Now you can catch it first.

What you can do with it

• Track funding announcements so you spot raises the same day they're posted, not a week later when every SDR is in the same inbox.

• Monitor keyword searches like "just raised", "Series A", "seed round", and "backed by" to catch funding activity as it happens.

• Trigger workflows from new posts so an AI agent filters out speculation and only surfaces confirmed funding announcements to your team via Slack, CRM, or outreach tools.

• Use Jarvis AI to build it for you - search setup, Boolean query, and workflow included.

Why this matters

Hacker News is Y Combinator's own forum - not to be confused with The Hacker News, the cybersecurity publication. It is where founders, VCs, and operators share news before it reaches mainstream channels.

Most teams find out about funding after it has already hit LinkedIn. By then, everyone is sending the same "congrats on the raise" email. Getting there earlier gives you a better shot at standing out.

Also shipped

• Substack Notes monitoring - track short-form content from Substack authors alongside existing post and profile monitoring.

• Critical lookback window fix - more reliable results when monitoring sources with longer gaps between posts.