Growth · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HNwatcher
Track keywords and users on Hacker News
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HNwatcher launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →
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The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.
24d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →
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Web Extension: Easily find Hacker News discussions about the page you're currently browsing. - pinoceniccola/what-hn-says-webext
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · pipedream.com · its alternatives →
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2020 · hn.luap.info · its alternatives →
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2020 · eliot-jones.com · its alternatives →
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Metrics and tracking for HN Posts
2020 · failflow.com · its alternatives →
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2013 · hackernewstrends.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com
2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →
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I built this tool to help me find interesting discussions on Hacker News. I love reading HN discussions almost more than the articles themselves. However, I found that full text search, although highly performant, is not always good at surfacing interesting discussions on a certain topic -- especially if you don't know what to search for exactly. I built this by scraping the most recent ~6 million posts (that's about 2 years of history) and putting the resulting posts and their vector embeddings into Postgres. Let me know what could be improved, and if you'd like a more detailed writeup of…
2024 · searchhacker.news · its alternatives →
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