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Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HN Notifier Realtime(ish) Notifications for Comments on Your HN Posts launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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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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    Daily original takes and guides.

    2011 · hnnotify.com · its alternatives →

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    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022 · hn-slack-bot.vercel.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 →

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    Subscribe to your Hacker News feed, never miss a reply

    2018 · its alternatives →

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    Find new customers and monitor your brand on the internet

    2019 · notifier.so · its alternatives →

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    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019 · its alternatives →

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

    2021 · gitlab.com · its alternatives →

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    Subscribe to HN articles to get comment notifications

    2017 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to archivy/archivy-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · 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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    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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    Metrics and tracking for HN Posts

    2020 · failflow.com · its alternatives →

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    HNwatcher▲136

    Track keywords and users on Hacker News

    2014 · its alternatives →

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