Alternatives

Products that do what hnCommentWatcher (is this useful?) does

1. 1HL
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   2015 · 2ton.com.au

2. 2WA
   Watchpoints, an easy to use watchpoints equivalent library for Python▲77

   2021 · github.com

3. 3PW
   Pytest-watcher – A working alternative to Pytest-watch▲26

   2021 · github.com

4. 4
   HNwatcher▲136

   Track keywords and users on Hacker News

   2014

5. 5HT
   hnlive.tk – A tool to estimate activity on HN before posting▲109

   2016 · hnlive.tk

6. 6
   HODINKEE Strap Finder▲98

   One watch. Endless possibilities.

   2016

7. 7IM
   I made a tool to track the upvote/ranking history of HN submissions▲144

   2021 · upvotetracker.com

8. 8TA
   Thyme, a simple CLI to measure human time and focus▲99

   2016 · text.sourcegraph.com

9. 9RA
   ReadHNLater – A HN PWA with a “Read It Later” Feature▲39

   2018 · github.com

10. 10
    Attensee▲69

    An eye tracking alternative that actually works

    2014

11. 11AH
    A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other▲54

    2016 · florian.github.io

12. 12AG
    A Gin middleware for reporting to statsd deamon▲29

    2018 · github.com

13. 13HA
    Hvr, a Social Browser▲9

    2020 · hvr.world

14. 14HW
    HNWatch – Watch HN, filter stories, get e-mail alerts▲18

    2017 · github.com

15. 15FO
    Fsev – OS X file event watcher under 50 lines▲22

    2019 · github.com

16. 16DW
    Dialtone watcher – what is my laptop doing and am I normal▲6

    Hi HN we are Andrew and Dex. We built dialtone watcher, a small Go agent for macOS and Linux with a very specific goal: tell me what my machine is doing all day and help me compare that with others. What it does so far: - Watches running processes, CPU and memory use, and active network endpoints. - Groups traffic into human sized summaries by process, domain, and coarse protocol like HTTPS, DNS, QUIC, and Postgres. - Stores a local summary and can post bounded rollups to the dialtoneapp.com api so enough installs can turn the fleet view into something real. We kept circling the same…

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17. 17HP
    HNSearch PopDots (Potential HNSearch API Contest Submission)▲14

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18. 18AP
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    2014 · pomodoryo.herokuapp.com

19. 19MP
    Mince pie tracker▲20

    2012 · mpt.zencodeworks.com

20. 20AW
    atom.watch – beautiful clock in the browser▲6

    2016 · atom.watch

21. 21HO
    HN on the Apple Watch▲5

    2015 · itunes.apple.com

22. 22AP
    a portal to view HN Polls(prototype)▲5

    2013 · hn-polls.herokuapp.com

23. 23SA
    Sysmon, a simple DWM status bar▲5

    2022 · github.com

24. 24DB
    Dtop, bringing htop functionality in the webbrowser▲5

    2014 · github.com

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