How do replies appear?

Every comment has depth and parent_id. Top-level comments have parent_id null.

Does it return the post text?

No. Use Indie Hackers post for the post body, author and counts.

Do I pay for lookups that come back empty?

No. You are charged per result, so a request that finds nothing costs nothing. Testing this against a messy list is free to get wrong.

What does a request cost?

1 point per returned record, which is $1 per 1,000, and only records that come back are charged. Points come out of your monthly plan allowance.

Startup & Funding Data

Indie Hackers Post Comments API and MCP — threaded comments with upvotes

Send a post slug or its Indie Hackers link and a max_items limit. You get the comments on that post as a list, each with its text, author, upvotes, date and its place in the thread: depth and the id of the parent comment.

Run it in the app Read the API docs

You send: a post slug or URL, and max_items
You get back: The comments on one Indie Hackers post, threaded: text, author, upvotes, date, depth and parent id.
Coverage: Indie Hackers records with a public page.
Price: 1 point per returned record — $1 per 1,000; Billed per record actually returned, capped by max_items. A request that returns nothing costs nothing.

Comparison

Ways to get this data

Three approaches teams use today, and where each one runs into trouble.

Approach	What it takes	Cost	Trade-off
Indie Hackers directly	Open the page on Indie Hackers and scroll through the list	Free, and slow	Fine for one record, useless across a list, and the layout differs on every platform
Building a scraper	Write it, host it, and repair it when Indie Hackers changes its pages	Engineering time	A maintenance commitment for something that isn't your product
NeuralVerge	One request, the same shape as every other source in the catalog	$1 per 1,000, misses not billed	Returns what Indie Hackers publishes at request time. Other platforms are separate sources with the same request format

Response

What you get back

Every field in the example response below.

Field	Type	Description
`total_items`	number	How many records are in this response.
`first_item.id`	string	Comment id.
`first_item.name`	string	Display name of the commenter.
`first_item.url`	string	Link to the comment on the post.
`first_item.post`	string	Slug of the post the comment belongs to.
`first_item.text`	string	Comment text.
`first_item.author_name`	string	Commenter display name.
`first_item.author_username`	string	Commenter username.
`first_item.author_url`	string	Link to the commenter's Indie Hackers profile.
`first_item.upvotes`	number	Upvotes on the comment.
`first_item.created_at`	string	Comment date, YYYY-MM-DD.
`first_item.created_at_text`	string	Relative time as shown on the page, such as "28 minutes ago".
`first_item.depth`	number	Nesting level in the thread. 1 is a top-level comment.
`first_item.parent_id`	string or null	Id of the comment being replied to. Null for top-level comments.
`items`	array	Every returned record, in the same shape as first_item.
`total_found`	number or null	Total matches the platform reports. Null when it does not report one.
`page_count`	number	How many result pages were read to build the response.
`blocked`	boolean	True if the platform refused the request; false when data came back.
`proxy_traffic_bytes`	number	Data transferred for the request, in bytes. Informational.

Response

Example response

A real response, as returned.

{
  "session_id": "11111111-1111-1111-1111-111111111111",
  "kind": "indiehackers_posts_comments",
  "post": "3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a",
  "max_items": 2,
  "start_page": 1,
  "partial": false,
  "human": "# Indie Hackers — post comments\n\n- **Post:** 3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a\n- **Results:** 2 of 143 found\n- **Proxy traffic:** 255.4 KB",
  "machine": {
    "total_items": 2,
    "first_item": {
      "id": "-P3VlwdnpNoCEy-Ntvpf",
      "name": "GregoryScottHenson",
      "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a?commentId=-P3VlwdnpNoCEy-Ntvpf",
      "post": "3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a",
      "text": "Three products at $0 usually means the buyer was picked after the build. Narrowing SocialPost.ai to founders who sell on LinkedIn with no marketing hire is what made distribution tractable for us, bec",
      "author_name": "GregoryScottHenson",
      "author_username": "GregoryScottHenson",
      "author_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/GregoryScottHenson",
      "upvotes": 1,
      "created_at": "2026-10-09",
      "created_at_text": "28 minutes ago",
      "depth": 1,
      "parent_id": null
    },
    "items": [
      {
        "id": "-P3VlwdnpNoCEy-Ntvpf",
        "name": "GregoryScottHenson",
        "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a?commentId=-P3VlwdnpNoCEy-Ntvpf",
        "post": "3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a",
        "text": "Three products at $0 usually means the buyer was picked after the build. Narrowing SocialPost.ai to founders who sell on LinkedIn with no marketing hire is what made distribution tractable for us, bec",
        "author_name": "GregoryScottHenson",
        "author_username": "GregoryScottHenson",
        "author_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/GregoryScottHenson",
        "upvotes": 1,
        "created_at": "2026-10-09",
        "created_at_text": "28 minutes ago",
        "depth": 1,
        "parent_id": null
      },
      {
        "id": "-P3VeS9zPPhBlod_6zev",
        "name": "ebs24",
        "url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/post/3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a?commentId=-P3VeS9zPPhBlod_6zev",
        "post": "3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a",
        "text": "Had the same realization this week. Two months of building, and today I noticed I'd never checked whether anyone would actually pay. What I'm trying now: before any new code, I do my user's job by han",
        "author_name": "ebs24",
        "author_username": "ebs24",
        "author_url": "https://www.indiehackers.com/ebs24",
        "upvotes": 1,
        "created_at": "2026-10-09",
        "created_at_text": "an hour ago",
        "depth": 1,
        "parent_id": null
      }
    ],
    "total_found": 143,
    "page_count": 1,
    "blocked": false,
    "proxy_traffic_bytes": 261501
  },
  "total_points": 2
}

Integration

How to run it

The same lookup works from the app, the API, or as a tool an agent can call mid-task.

Results come back in the same envelope as every other source: a session id, a readable summary, the structured result and the points charged. max_items caps how many records are returned and billed.

curl -X POST https://api.neuralverge.ai/functions/v1/run-indiehackers-posts-comments \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer YOUR_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"post":"3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a","max_items":2}'

Use cases

What teams use it for

Where this field shows up in an actual workflow.

Reading feedback on a launch

Pull the comments on a product or milestone post and see what other founders said.

Sentiment and objection review

Collect comment text across posts about a topic to see which questions and objections come up.

Following a thread

Use depth and parent_id to rebuild who replied to whom.

Archiving a discussion

Save the comments of a post next to its text before it is edited or buried.

Coverage & limits

Coverage, freshness and limits

What this source covers, how fresh it is, and where it stops.

Coverage

Indie Hackers records with a public page.

Freshness

Read at request time, so the answer reflects the platform as it stands when you ask.

Handling

This source returns information Indie Hackers shows publicly. Every response carries the session id you can trace.

What it will not do

—Comments carry author names, usernames and profile links of individual members. Use them for the discussion, not to profile people.
—created_at is a date only; created_at_text is the relative time shown at request time, so it changes between runs.
—Comments are returned 50 per page. Use start_page and max_items (up to 250) to read a long thread.

FAQ

Questions, answered

The slug from the post address, such as 3-products-0-revenue-i-think-i-finally-understand-the-problem-6509e1a76a, or the full Indie Hackers link.

Related sources

Indie Hackers post

The post itself with full text, upvotes and comment count.

Indie Hackers post search

Top and newest posts with author and counts.

All startup & funding data

Startup directories, funding databases, launch platforms and investor data.

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One request format across every source in the catalog.

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