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Products that do what Web worker and polling exp / HN client app does

demo and src inside newstories will be loaded in web worker polling for comments refresh in main thread configurable worker cache

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   Freshping by Freshworks▲245

   Free forever website monitoring & status pages 🤩

   2018

2. 2AC
   A Chrome extension to see notifications for comments on your HN threads▲79

   2021 · chrome.google.com

3. 3
   HN Comments Owl▲77

   Highlight new Hacker News comments, and other UX tweaks

   2019

4. 4
   Pulse▲90

   Lightweight real-time polls - open source & self-hosted

   Mar 2026

5. 5HR
   HN Replies – Get notified of replies to your comments▲217

   2016 · hnreplies.com

6. 6
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015

7. 7RH
   React-hn – Supports all Hacker News API v0 item types▲69

   2014 · github.com

8. 8HN
   HN Notify - Email reply notifications for comments and posts.▲32

   2011 · hnnotify.com

9. 9NG
   Newsit – Get to HackerNews or Reddit Comments (Chrome Extension)▲17

   2018 · chrome.google.com

10. 10HC
    HN clone made with CQRS and Event Sourcing (node/react/resolve)▲9

    2017 · github.com

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

    2020 · hn.byroni.us

12. 12IW
    I wrote an HN bot to suggest HTTPS url when people post HTTP URLs▲17

    It's inspired by this comment I made: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26599746. I actually saw several comments with HTTP URL posted, and that was the only one I bothered to comment on. So I thought that this is something better suited for bots than human. I hacked this together over yesterday and today: https://github.com/fishy/https-bot. Basically it uses the Firebase API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) to find comments with HTTP URLs in them, try the HTTPS version, compare the contents, post back a comment if the contents are…

    2021

13. 13SS
    Super simple web polling tool▲6

    2015 · question.askqu.co

14. 14TM
    Threadbase – Make a HN-style community in minutes. No coding required▲19

    2019 · threadbase.io

15. 15AD
    A desktop HN reader client in Rust/egui▲9

    A little toy HN client for the desktop that I've been playing around with this week.

    2022 · github.com

16. 16HE
    HTTP Event Sources: backend components for processing HTTP requests▲8

    2020 · github.com

17. 17AC
    A Chrome extension for getting to the HN thread for the current page▲12

    2011 · mfairley.com

18. 18IC
    I created a tool to schedule HTTP requests▲17

    In my last project, I was struggling to create and monitor cron jobs. So, instead of creating hundreds of standalone scrips and executing them with cron, I decided to turn those scripts into multiple endpoints. Next, I created a single service that I could schedule HTTP requests to those endpoints and monitor its execution. No more scripts, now everything is endpoints that I can run manually at any time I turned this scheduler service into a Micro-SaaS so you don't have to build it yourself: beew.io I know you can Schedule HTTP requests with Zapier but come on... I will not pay 50 bucks for…

    2021

19. 19AP
    a portal to view HN Polls(prototype)▲5

    2013 · hn-polls.herokuapp.com

20. 20CH
    Cache Horse: An HTTP cache/batch service▲5

    Hi, I'm fiiv, and I'm the creator of Cache Horse. I built it because I wanted an easy plug-n-play solution to caching and simplifying HTTP requests - in particular, on frontend. First, I was fetching data like daily weather, historic currency exchange numbers, air quality readings - and many of those APIs have quota limits. And second, since I was already caching them, I thought it would be useful to batch them together - so I built that feature in. I would love to hear your feedback and thoughts on the project. Thanks!

    2025 · cache.horse

21. 21IV
    I've built a REST Test client in my spare time▲11

    Hi HN,<p>In my spare time (evenings and weekends) I've built 3 products which have been relatively successful even with little advertising (only google ads budgeted at $30 per day). The latest one is WcfStorm.Rest; which is a REST service test client. I built it because I found that the current tools did not have the features I wanted such as, intellisense when working with HTTP headers, syntax highlighting for JSON messages, etc.<p>I'm continually trying to improve these products and would very much love get your feedback. Every suggestion is welcome!<p>(My apologies…

    2012 · wcfstorm.com

22. 22LI
    LambdaNews.io, an HN client built with Vue▲9

    2018 · lambdanews.io

23. 23HC
    HN comments UI experiment▲6

    2017 · hn-level-based-view.gomix.me

24. 24HN
    Hacker News Live Comments Bookmarklet▲15

    2014 · hnlivecomments.pex2.jp

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