Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HN Notify
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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 Notify launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HR
2016 · hnreplies.com · its alternatives →
- 2HN
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 →
- 4HN
2015 · hnnotifications.com · its alternatives →
- 5HG
2018 · hnnotify.xyz · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
23d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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Hello HN, I was away from my computer for two weeks, and after coming back and reading the latest discussions on HN about coding assistants (models, harnesses), I felt very out of the loop. My normal process would have been to keep reading and figure out the latest and greatest from people's comments, but I wanted to try and automate this process. Basically the goal is to get a quick overview over which coding models are popular on HN. A next iteration could also scan for harnesses that people use, or info on self-hosting or hardware setups. I wrote a short intro on the page about the…
2024 · hnup.date · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 9HF
2014 · hn-follow.desh.es · 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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(Unofficial) Login with HackerNews
2022 · loginwithhn.com · 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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Curated daily list of blog posts posted on Hacker News. Click to read HackerNews blogs newsletter, by Paul, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.
2020 · hnblogs.substack.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
- 16FH
Hi HN! I’ve been lurking for a while, but out of fear of being steamrolled by HN readers or maybe just natural introversion, I’ve always been too scared to post or comment. Which is why 1. this is my first real Hacker News submission 2. my friend Michael and I built "Fake" Hacker News, a place to post and see what AI-generated HN comments might say. Here’s a video of me using fakeHN to test this very submission: https://www.loom.com/share/4b9f4f9d7c77489a86baeb92ec55a1ed?... And an example of one of our generated posts:…
2023 · fakehn.com · its alternatives →
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A more informative and less addictive Hacker News.
2020 · hackerdaily.io · its alternatives →
- 18WI
2011 · hnpickup.appspot.com · its alternatives →
- 19HF
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 on Val Town. We’re trying to create a new web primitive that you can: 1. write like a function 2. run like a script 3. fork like a repo 4. install like an app This is our 5th iteration of this same “HN Follow” app. We launched the 3rd version here on Hacker News six months ago[1], but it was very kindly removed from the front page by dang in favor of us launching Val Town itself first, which we did in…
2023 · val.town · its alternatives →
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Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger
2016 · messenger.com · its alternatives →
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Metrics and tracking for HN Posts
2020 · failflow.com · its alternatives →
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Real-time email pings the moment a Hacker News post trends
2025 · hnalerts.com · its alternatives →
- 23FH
Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…
2025 · pj4533.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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- HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments alternatives
- HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts alternatives
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