I find that when Hacker News really likes a piece of highly technical SaaS technology it's usually pretty good. The best example I can think of is Datadog which

I find that when Hacker News really likes a piece of highly technical SaaS technology it's usually pretty good. The best example I can think of is Datadog which got rave reviews here years ago and has continued to be enormously successful. Particularly for enterprise tech as there tends to be less herd behavior up-market. If I'm diligencing a technology I'll often actually look at HN to see the opinions.