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24 alternatives to A Telegram bot that notifies you of HN comment replies

A Telegram bot that notifies you whenever a reply to your comments is posted on HN.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. A Telegram bot that notifies you of HN comment replies launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022 · hn-slack-bot.vercel.app · its alternatives →

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    Telegram's web comment widget

    2019 · comments.app · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! Just for fun, I built an interactive Hacker News Simulator. You can submit text posts and links, just like the real HN. But on HN Simulator, all of the comments are generated by LLMs + generate instantly. The best way to use it (IMHO) is to submit a text post or a curl-able URL here: https://news.ysimulator.run/submit. You don't need an account to post. When you do that, various prompts will be built from a library of commenter archetypes, moods, and shapes. The AI commenters will actually respond to your text post and/or submitted link. I really wanted it to feel…

    Nov 2025 · news.ysimulator.run · its alternatives →

  5. 5HN

    Daily original takes and guides.

    2011 · hnnotify.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6HG
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    HN buzz▲76

    Telegram bot for Hacker News posts filtered by your keywords

    2021 · t.me · its alternatives →

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    Telegram bot for domain monitoring

    2023 · yourdomainbot.online · its alternatives →

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    HN Notifier is a chrome extension that shows the number of unread comments to your HackerNews thread. One of the issues with HackerNews is that it is difficult to know when someone has replied to your post or comment, thus by missing an opportunity to continue the conversation. - meanands/hn-notifie

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Subscribe to your Hacker News feed, never miss a reply

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Free bot for tracking performance in chats

    2018 · t.me · its alternatives →

  13. 13HN
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    Get alerts when your site gives errors via a Telegram Bot 🤖

    2017 · downtimebot.com · its alternatives →

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    Easiest way to stay up to date on anything by notifications

    2016 · telegram.me · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN, I hacked a simple service for gathering HN replies and organizing them by the parent's username. The main idea is to be able to efficiently get the latest replies to an HN user. For example, you can use this service to send yourself notifications when some replies to you on HN. The service queries the official HN API and can be self-hosted. It is basically ~30 lines of Bash script. I made this mostly for educational purposes -- thought you might find it useful for something. Cheers! Edit: for example, here are the latest replies to me [0]. It includes only recent replies, since I…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Mishka▲198

    Telegram AI chatbot with internet access and more

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    It's inspired by this comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26599746. I actually saw several comments with HTTP URL posted, and that was the only one I bothered to comment on. So I thought that this is something better suited for bots than human. I hacked this together over yesterday and today: https://github.com/fishy/https-bot. Basically it uses the Firebase API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) to find comments with HTTP URLs in them, try the HTTPS version, compare the contents, post back a comment if the contents are…

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Add a bell emoji to unread comments on HackerNews. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

    2021 · gist.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Transcribe, Summarize, Understand – in seconds

    2025 · whisperbot.ai · its alternatives →

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    Telegram bot that transcribes voice & video notes to text

    2023 · echoscribe.xyz · its alternatives →

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    Receive Twitter, Instagram and RSS updates in Telegram

    2020 · t.me · its alternatives →

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