HN Wrapped 2025: AI-generated personalized summary and roast of your Hacker News year.

What it does

HN Wrapped generates a personalized summary of a user's Hacker News activity. Users enter their username and receive three main outputs: AI-generated roasts and statistics based on their HN comments and submissions from a selected year, a fictional HN front page from 2035 tailored to their interests, and an xkcd-style comic depicting their HN persona. The tool uses Google's Gemini 3 Flash and Gemini 3 Pro Image models to create the content.

Who it is for

The product targets active Hacker News users who want entertainment and reflection around their platform engagement. It appeals to developers, founders, and tech enthusiasts looking for a humorous year-in-review experience similar to Spotify Wrapped or other consumer-facing analytics tools.

Pricing

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How it stands out

HN Wrapped leverages recent advances in generative AI to create humor and personalization at scale. The combination of roasts, predictive content (the 2035 front page), and visual output (xkcd-style comics) differentiates it from simple analytics dashboards. The tool requires no authentication or account creation—users only need their HN username. Data deletion within 30 days addresses privacy concerns for users submitting activity history.

What a founder should check

A founder considering a similar product should verify: (1) whether competitors already exist in the "social media wrapped" space beyond music (Spotify) and whether any specifically target niche communities like HN; (2) the switching costs and stickiness—whether annual or seasonal release timing creates repeat engagement or if one-time novelty limits retention; and (3) the durability of the AI moat—whether simple prompt engineering and access to the same models make replication trivial, and whether the humor and quality can sustain user interest as the novelty of personalized AI roasts becomes commonplace.

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