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Products that do what HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria does

1. 1HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

2. 2WI
   When is good time to submit a story on HN?▲269

   2011 · hnpickup.appspot.com

3. 3HG
   HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments▲66

   2018 · hnnotify.xyz

4. 4HU
   HN Update – Hourly news broadcast of top HN stories▲644

   I feel like it was inevitable, with the recent buzz around NotebookLM. I'm just surprised that it hasn't been done yet.

   2024 · hnup.date

5. 5HN
   HN Notify - Email reply notifications for comments and posts.▲32

   2011 · hnnotify.com

6. 6GA
   Get a Slack message when your brand is mentioned on HN▲132

   2017 · littlebirdie.io

7. 7HW
   HNWatch – Watch HN, filter stories, get e-mail alerts▲18

   2017 · github.com

8. 8
   Hacker News Slack Bot▲129

   Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

   2022

9. 9HB
   HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile▲242

   2021 · hnbadges.netlify.app

10. 10CN
    Curated Newsletter of Show HNs▲59

    2013 · weekendupdate.me

11. 11HF
    HN Follow – email alerts from your friends on Hacker News▲25

    HN Follow lets you “follow” authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com. The app was built in an experimental style. Instead of being a normal app where we store all your data, it is just a wrapper over a series of JavaScript snippets that we guide you through installing, and which you can then customize 100%. The scripts call out to Agolia’s wonderful HN Search API. You can read more about the app’s architecture and it’s motivation here[1]. HN Follow runs on Val Town [2], an online scripting tool my team and I are…

    2022 · hnfollow.com

12. 12
    Hazumi News 3.0▲99

    Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

    2025

13. 13QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com

14. 14HT
    hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

    2016 · hnlive.tk

15. 15SH
    Showing HN▲66

    2012 · showinghn.com

16. 16ST
    Search the text of articles submitted to HN, with live updating▲119

    2020 · hndex.ml

17. 17HN
    HN Notifier Realtime(ish) Notifications for Comments on Your HN Posts▲6

    2020 · hacknotescenter.com

18. 18FI
    Find info about the developers who post projects on Show HN▲99

    2020 · showhn-dashboard.netlify.app

19. 19HW
    HTML5 Web Push Notifications for trending HN stories in Chrome▲13

    2015 · hackernews.onesignal.com

20. 20CE
    Chrome Extension to Filter HN Stories by Keyword▲43

    2017 · github.com

21. 21HS
    HN Status Page in the style of HN with detailed metrics▲63

    2017 · hn.hund.io

22. 22TY
    Track your HN post▲9

    2012 · s.myezapp.com

23. 23HM
    HN Mail – A topic-based newsletter service for Hacker News▲27

    2018 · hnmail.io

24. 24SI
    Search in HN Content▲13

    2015 · search.nagrgtr.com

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