Automate launch intelligence with Hacker News, Asana, GPT & Slack/Email digests

by Rahul Joshi ✓ · 415 views · created 2025-12-24 · Market Research, AI Summarization

What this workflow does

This AI workflow has 13 nodes and runs on a schedule (every day) (plus 1 other trigger). Along the way it connects Asana, Hacker News, Azure OpenAI Chat Model and Slack and 1 more.

How it runs

Trigger: On a schedule (every day) (plus 1 other trigger).

1. Fetch Recent Show HN Posts from Hacker News (Hacker News): work with all
2. Slack: uses Slack
3. Filter Likely Product Launch Announcements (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
4. Normalize Launch Metadata and Score Signal Strength (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
5. Create Asana Task for Detected Product Launch (Asana): uses Asana
6. Aggregate: combines items into one
7. Generate Daily Founder Launch Digest (AI) (AI Agent): runs an AI agent, with model: LLM Reasoning Engine for Launch Digest
8. Parse Digest Output into Slack and Email Payloads (Code): runs custom JavaScript code
9. Send Daily Founder Launch Digest to Slack (Slack): uses Slack
10. Send Daily Founder Launch Digest via Email (Gmail): uses Gmail

Services it uses

AsanaHacker NewsAzure OpenAI Chat ModelSlackGmail

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Nodes used (10)

• Asanan8n-nodes-base.asana
• Hacker Newsn8n-nodes-base.hackerNews
• Schedule Triggern8n-nodes-base.scheduleTrigger
• Coden8n-nodes-base.code
• Aggregaten8n-nodes-base.aggregate
• AI Agent@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.agent
• Azure OpenAI Chat Model@n8n/n8n-nodes-langchain.lmChatAzureOpenAi
• Slackn8n-nodes-base.slack
• Gmailn8n-nodes-base.gmail
• Error Triggern8n-nodes-base.errorTrigger

From the author

📘 Description This workflow automatically detects new product launches posted on Hacker News under “Show HN,” evaluates their launch strength, converts each launch into a tracked Asana task, and generates a clean daily founder digest delivered via Slack and…

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