Hacker News Reader

Comment by 101008 | Hacker News Reader

I want to create something that every X hours (could be 6 hours, 8 hours, 12 hours) check if there are news about a certain topic, and if there are and are interesting enough, generate an image, a text, and post it to Instagram.

The second part is done (generating it and posting it), but finding the news is the hardest part, even if I share some RSS feed. Would this help me with my use case or is something completely different?

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This is great, and exactly the type of thing we would love folks to build on Rowboat!

Rowboat has tools to search the web, find HN posts, browse Reddit etc, and you can ask the copilot to build an agent to filter posts based on topics - at the granularity that you want. We have time based triggers, so you can have the agent invoked every x hours.

We have a similar prebuilt template you could checkout: https://app.rowboatlabs.com/projects?shared=N2pJTzyTdh-NdwMi....

I tried using your cloud solution to test this and I couldnt pass the connect to Instagram through Composio. I got a 400 error. I checked Reddit and it never worked. Got tired after trying for a while :(

Ah that is unexpected. Do you mind hopping on our discord: https://discord.com/invite/rxB8pzHxaS - we can debug this for you.

Sorry I don't use Discord :(

Google used to have news alerts. Have you checked those?

I did that using n8n. Quite easy to setup a workflow that reads an RSS feed. Maybe give it a try.

Would love to know how you find Rowboat for this!

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