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Products that do what HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments does

1. 1HN
   HN Notify - Email reply notifications for comments and posts.▲32

   2011 · hnnotify.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. 4EH
   Embed HN comments in your website▲137

   2016 · comments.network

5. 5GL
   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

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

   2020 · hacknotescenter.com

7. 7AH
   Archivy-HN – automatically save and download your upvoted HN posts▲144

   2020 · github.com

8. 8IB
   I built an interactive HN Simulator▲538

   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

9. 9CH
   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

10. 10CW
    Chat with HN users while you visit HN▲72

    2012 · rabblr.com

11. 11HO
    HN Offline – HN client for reading comments▲6

    2020 · hn.byroni.us

12. 12AT
    A Telegram bot that notifies you of HN comment replies▲5

    2021 · gitlab.com

13. 13HN
    HN Notifications – Get an email when a HN story matches your criteria▲49

    2015 · hnnotifications.com

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

    2016 · hnlive.tk

15. 15
    Hacker News Slack Bot▲129

    Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

    2022

16. 16QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com

17. 17DA
    Display a bell emoji on HN comments you haven't read yet▲107

    2021 · gist.github.com

18. 18GA
    Get a Slack message when your brand is mentioned on HN▲132

    2017 · littlebirdie.io

19. 19HC
    HN Comment Saver▲5

    Jul 2026 · github.com

20. 20
    HN Comments Owl▲77

    Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

    2019

21. 21HF
    HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN▲76

    2014 · hn-follow.desh.es

22. 22IM
    I made an open source Chrome extension to notify you of new HN replies▲24

    2022 · github.com

23. 23HF
    Hackbook – Follow HN users, get notifications and view deleted comments▲17

    2015 · hackbook.club

24. 24BH
    Browse HN Comments by Timestamp▲12

    2021 · github.com

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