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“Ghostty” · last 7 daysSample · 20 Oct 2026

~3,947

mentions in the last 7 days

Counts only — relevance not judged here
Hacker Newsanswered12

whole-word, of 89 raw matches · 3 stories · 9 comments read

Blueskyanswered14

whole-word, of 21 raw matches · en 8 · ja 1

GitHubanswered3,920

whole-word, of 4,667 raw matches · 13 issues · 71 PRs · 33 open, 51 closed, of those read

Google Newsanswered1

whole-word, of 1 raw matches

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Threads to readnewest first
Comment on: Off-Topic: the non-technical side of Hacker NewsComment7hShow HN: Craig – A TUI for running parallel coding agentsShow HN10hPost · 7h · enPost · 13h · enImages in the Ink renderer: port Slack images, then avatarsIssuenowghostty: install terminfo over SSH, add macOS configPull requestnow

These are whole-word matches before AI triage. FishOut counts only the posts it judges relevant toward a plan — Free covers 500 a month — and filtered noise never counts.

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[01] HOW THE COUNT IS MADE/ METHOD

Hacker News: scaled to whole words

One time-filtered Algolia search returns the week’s total and the newest hundred stories and comments. Algolia matches prefixes and typos, so we count how many of those hundred contain the name as a whole word and scale the total by that share.

Bluesky: the newest hundred

Bluesky’s public search returns one page of a hundred posts and refuses to page further without signing in. When the week holds more than that, the count says “100+” instead of guessing the rest.

GitHub: issues and pull requests

GitHub’s issue search finds the quoted name in titles and bodies, minus Dependabot and Renovate. Bodies count, so a pull request that bumps your package shows up too — the issue and PR split tells you which kind you are looking at.

Google News: a count and a link

Headlines from the past seven days whose title carries the name. Google offers that feed for personal use, so you see the number and a link to Google’s own search, not the headlines.
[02] WHAT TO DO WITH THE NUMBER/ TRIAGE

The count says how loud. Triage says which to answer.

A weekly number tells you whether a name is talked about at all. It cannot tell you that one of those posts is somebody asking which tool to buy. In FishOut every match is read against your Brief and comes back with a relevance, labels and — on Hacker News — a Reply call. How relevance works.
94
Ask HNthread3h

Ask HN: What terminal are you using in 2026?

Reply nowAsking for recommendations
81
acme/acme-cliissue6h

Rendering glitch with ligatures in the new release

Has a problem
22
Blueskypost1d

A ghost story for the long weekend

Filtered · Different meaning
[03] STEP BY STEP/ 5 STEPS
1

Check the name as people write it

Use the spelling your users type, not the legal entity. Whole-word matching ignores case, so “ghostty” and “Ghostty” are one search.

2

Read the gap between raw and whole-word

A big gap means the search engine is matching other words that start the same way. That is noise you would pay attention to by hand.

3

Open the threads to read

The newest whole-word matches link straight to the story, issue or post. Comments show the title of the story they sit under.

4

Check a competitor the same way

The same seven days on the same four platforms make the two numbers comparable. For a share across several brands, use the share of voice calculator.

5

Turn it into a monitor

Watch the keyword free and FishOut checks it every hour, judges every match and sends the ones that clear your bar.

[04] THE SAME CHECK, EVERY HOUR/ IN THE PRODUCT

The same check, every hour, already sorted

In the product this search runs on its own and lands in an inbox sorted by what needs you: views for Reply now, Leads and Support, and one post open with the reasons behind its relevance. Free: 10 keywords on Reddit, Hacker News, Bluesky, GitHub and Google News, checked hourly, 500 relevant mentions a month and a 2-day backfill on each new keyword.
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94
Ask HNthread3h

Ask HN: What terminal are you using in 2026?

Reply nowAsking for recommendations
81
acme/acme-cliissue6h

Rendering glitch with ligatures in the new release

Has a problem
22
Blueskypost1d

A ghost story for the long weekend

Filtered · Different meaning
Ask HNthread3h

Ask HN: What terminal are you using in 2026?

Default terminal is fine but slow with big logs. What are people switching to, and is it worth it?

Relevance

94
Matches your briefAsking for helpNot answered yet

Labels · Reply call

Reply nowAsking for recommendations

Answer the question; say who you are

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[05] FREE TOOL, OR A MONITOR?/ COMPARED

This checker, FishOut Free, or Google Alerts?

Most people searching for a mention checker already have Google Alerts. It is a good tool for the open web; it was not built for developer communities.
Price
This free toolFree, no signupFishOut FreeFree plan, no cardGoogle AlertsFree, no paid tier [source]
Social and community platforms
This free toolHacker News, Bluesky, GitHubFishOut FreeThose plus Reddit; paid plans add X, LinkedIn and moreGoogle AlertsNone selectable — sources are web, news, blogs, video, books, discussions, finance [source]
Breadth of the open web
This free toolGoogle News onlyFishOut FreeGoogle News onlyGoogle AlertsThe web, in 47 languages and 240 regions [source]
Which mentions matter
This free toolWhole-word countsFishOut FreeAI relevance, labels and Reply call on every matchGoogle AlertsNo scoring, no sentiment [source]
Where alerts go
This free tool—FishOut FreeSlack, Teams, Discord, Telegram, email, webhooks and more, every planGoogle AlertsEmail or RSS feed [source]

Google Alerts facts checked 20 October 2026 at the sources linked. FishOut’s from the pricing page.

[06] SEND IT WHERE YOU WORK/ 13 CHANNELS

The alert this mention would send

Over a channel’s relevance floor, a mention goes to chat, email or your own code. See all integrations or set up Slack.
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[07] ASK IT FROM YOUR ASSISTANT/ MCP

The same search, from Claude or Cursor

The same search works from Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or VS Code through FishOut’s MCP server, which is on every plan including Free: ask “what did people say about us on Hacker News this week?” and it answers from your own triaged mentions.
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[08] OTHER FREE TOOLS/ NO SIGNUP
Hacker News mention searchStories vs comments, Show HN launches and a four-week trend for any name.Keyword noise checkerA verdict on your name as a keyword, and the Means or exclude words that fix it.Share of voice calculatorPer-platform share for up to five brands, or a calculator for your own numbers.

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