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24 alternatives to HN monitor and notification via slack for subjects of interest

Code: Single click deploy https://github.com/DevScoreInc/samples/tree/master/hacker-news-monitor Youtube demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nEab7ALc3c&feature= The above is a fun example of what users can do with https://devscore.com Devscore is a flexible low code service to automate workflows and execute different types of custom functions. Our goal is to help developers deploy functions (micro application) that helps them become more productive by building integrations, flows and lifecycles between and within their tools. We…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HN monitor and notification via slack for subjects of interest launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hello, My name is Yahia, I've been working on scraping products for a long time and maintain a couple of free sites in my spare time (E.g. knifegeek.io) What prompted this is i've rebuilt scraping infra at every company I've started and finally just made it a product. Pass a URL, get clean markdown, html, images, sitemap or pass a domain, get logos, colors, socials, industry data. Goal is to offer a better service than VC funded competitors at a fraction of the cost. Stealth is included and automatic at no additional cost (normally an upcharge by alternatives). Would love your honest thoughts.

    Jul 2026 · context.dev · its alternatives →

  2. 2DA

    This is a project I've been working on since the start of Covid-19. I built an app so that I don't have to put data into online tools like JWT debugger, JSON formatter, URL decoder, etc... https://devutils.app The app works entirely offline and is open-source. I'm selling the pre-built version of the app to earn some revenue for my time. If you want to try the app but can't afford the price or don't have XCode to build the app, drop me an email (my profile), I'll be happy to provide you a free build. I would love to hear all the feedback/suggestions. Thanks!

    2020 · its alternatives →

  3. 3CD

    Hi HN! This is a little site I put together while learning the Elm language as part of a hackathon at my work, I thought you might enjoy it. Be sure to click the `(source)` buttons next to the graphs: you can edit them interactively & write your own queries against the entire data set. The syntax isn't well documented yet, but you can probably get the general idea pretty quickly based on the examples there. If you like it, have questions, etc. let me know! If folks think this is cool, maybe I can get it turned into a legit project. :)

    2022 · codestat.dev · its alternatives →

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    Public datsets made with https://getomni.ai/. Contribute to getomni-ai/datasets development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

  5. 5

    Hi Hacker News! Shahar and Tal from Keep here. A few months ago, we introduced here at HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34806482) Keep as an “open source alerting CLI” and got some interesting feedback - mainly around UI, automation, and supporting more tools. We were VERY early back then, and we understood that although the current DX around creating alerts is not great, it's not that critical and developers don’t need another tool just for that. But we did find something else. While talking to developers and devops, we found that a lot of companies use many tools…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

  6. 6PS

    Hey HN, it's Farrukh and Umar. We're building listen.dev–a tool for proactive security monitoring in GitHub Actions to secure software releases from supply chain threats. Why we built this: As friends and collaborators for over a decade, we've been working on various startup ideas in dev tools and infrastructure. In 2017, while building an ML ops toolkit on Kubernetes, we got hacked. During a pilot with a fintech customer, our cluster became victim to a crypto-jacking attack. As it turned out, a dependency in our container base image contained malware (a Monero miner) which triggered inside…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Hashnode▲250

    A friendly and inclusive Q&A network for coders

    2015 · hashnode.com · its alternatives →

  8. 8HR
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    Digest▲72

    Hacker News client for Slack

    2020 · slack.com · its alternatives →

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    snipt.dev▲214

    Search engine for code snippets

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    DevUtils▲197

    Developer utilities for macOS

    2020 · devutils.com · its alternatives →

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    Deveo▲101

    Free private code hosting for Git, Mercurial, & SVN

    2016 · perforce.com · its alternatives →

  13. 13IM

    I noticed the who's hiring threads are very popular every month, so I decided to create a job board specifically for hacker news. You can tag jobs, search, view user's profiles and more. Tell me what you guys thing! Any feedback is appreciated.

    2013 · hnjobs.org · its alternatives →

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    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

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

  15. 15DM

    Hi HN! I am Krishna Thota, founder of DevRaven. DevRaven is a monitoring platform for Developers. DevRaven enables engineering teams or individual developers to setup active monitoring for their services/applications and get alerted when things don't work as expected Today's launch makes available the following features: API Monitoring - Monitor your HTTP end points and perform no-code or scripted assertions. Synthetic Monitoring - Execute browser based end-to-end tests using Playwright framework. No setup required. SSL Monitoring - Monitor SSL certificates for your end points and get…

    2022 · devraven.io · its alternatives →

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    Notifies you when someone replies to your Hacker News posts and comments. - adam-s/HNswered

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Notifyz▲145

    Create, Subscribe, Notify All in One Place

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    Community built to share popular programming snippets.

    2020 · cheatsheets.dev · its alternatives →

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    Simple & cheap log alerting

    2024 · its alternatives →

  20. 20HG
  21. 21WA

    Hey HN, I'm sure you've seen the monthly "Ask HN: What Are You Working On?" headlines on [Hacker News](https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...). Honestly, it's my favorite topic because it's packed with insights about what other hackers are up to. I wondered what it would be like if instead of just a headline, there was a whole website where hackers could post daily updates, and where we could follow the hackers we're interested in for their latest updates. And so, this web site was born. I hope it gets used frequently so we can all benefit from it…

    2024 · hackerupdates.com · its alternatives →

  22. 22

    Instantly Share & Collaborate on Code

    2025 · its alternatives →

  23. 23

    View GitHub statistics and timeline by username.

    2021 · dev-flow.netlify.app · its alternatives →

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    Screen recorder with console, network, errors & annotations

    May 2026 · devrecorder.com · its alternatives →

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