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HNNotify is an email notification service for Hacker News users who want to track replies to their posts and comments. When someone responds to content a user has shared on Hacker News, HNNotify sends an email alert.… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HNNotify – Get emailed when a users reply to your HN Posts and Comments launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Daily original takes and guides.

    2011 · hnnotify.com · its alternatives →

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    Notifies you when someone replies to your Hacker News posts and comments. - adam-s/HNswered

    Apr 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Subscribe to your Hacker News feed, never miss a reply

    2018 · 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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    Kismet - Zero effort networking

    2018 · findkismet.com · its alternatives →

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    Get your public IP address instantly. Simple, fast, and reliable API for developers.

    2021 · hnbadges.netlify.app · 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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    Contribute to archivy/archivy-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    (Unofficial) Login with HackerNews

    2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

    25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

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    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. Instead of being a normal app where we store all your data, it is just a wrapper over a series of JavaScript snippets that we guide you through installing, and which you can then customize 100%. The scripts call out to Agolia’s wonderful HN Search API. You can read more about the app’s architecture and it’s motivation here[1]. HN Follow runs on Val Town [2], an online scripting tool my team and I are…

    2022 · hnfollow.com · its alternatives →

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    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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    Hacker News Tailored For You.

    2018 · hnmail.io · its alternatives →

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