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Products that do what HN Notify - Email reply notifications for comments and posts. does

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

   2016 · hnreplies.com

2. 2HG
   HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments▲66

   2018 · hnnotify.xyz

3. 3AC
   A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads▲79

   2021 · chrome.google.com

4. 4HN
   HN Notifier Realtime(ish) Notifications for Comments on Your HN Posts▲6

   2020 · hacknotescenter.com

5. 5EH
   Embed HN comments in your website▲137

   2016 · comments.network

6. 6AH
   Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts▲144

   2020 · github.com

7. 7HT
   hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

   2016 · hnlive.tk

8. 8HN
   HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria▲49

   2015 · hnnotifications.com

9. 9GL
   Get latest replies to an HN user▲42

   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

10. 10CH
    Collapse HN Comments▲141

    Little chrome extension I made to collapse comments on HN, feel free to use it if you want.

    2014 · github.com

11. 11
    Hacker News Slack Bot▲129

    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022

12. 12DA
    Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet▲107

    2021 · gist.github.com

13. 13HO
    HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

    2020 · hn.byroni.us

14. 14
    Little Birdie▲93

    Get a Slack message when you're mentioned on HN or Reddit

    2017

15. 15AT
    A Telegram bot that notifies you of HN comment replies▲5

    2021 · gitlab.com

16. 16CN
    Curated Newsletter of Show HNs▲59

    2013 · weekendupdate.me

17. 17HW
    HTML5 Web Push Notifications for trending HN stories in Chrome▲13

    2015 · hackernews.onesignal.com

18. 18TS
    Track social sharing and community sentiment on HN and reddit▲24

    2014 · stats.timgallant.us

19. 19DE
    Daily Email For "Show HN" Posts; Also See Posts From Last 7/30 Days▲6

    2014 · panabee.com

20. 20CW
    Chat with HN users while you visit HN▲72

    2012 · rabblr.com

21. 21HC
    HN Comment Saver▲5

    Jul 2026 · github.com

22. 22
    HN Comments Owl▲77

    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019

23. 23KC
    Karmalert.com » Mention Alerts from Reddit, Twitter, HN and PH▲5

    2016 · karmalert.com

24. 24HF
    Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments▲17

    2015 · hackbook.club

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