HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN
HN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN launched on November 5, 2014 with 76 votes, #668 of 1,965 launches that month and more than 95% of that year's launches.
In plain words
HN Follow is a tool for Hacker News users that lets them follow their friends and see what stories they're upvoting and commenting on. Launched in 2014, it helps users keep track of their network's activity on the platform. The service is designed for Hacker News community members who want to stay connected with others they know and monitor their engagement with stories and discussions.
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all alternatives →- HFHN Follow – Follow Your Friends on HN2023 · val.town · ▲133
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…
- HFHN Follow – email alerts from your friends on Hacker News2022 · hnfollow.com · ▲25
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…
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Hey HN! I just published https://meet.hn, a map to find hackers in your city. How it works? Demo of the signup process: https://x.com/meet_hn/status/1834918518904746329 1. Fill the form: username, city+country 2. Copy the text generated in the box below the form, and paste it in your HN description. 3. Click "Add me on the map" Optionnaly (it's recommended!) you can add links to your socials as well as some tags to showcase your interests. Why does it exist? I created this because, despite its harsh reputation on the internet, I love the HN community. I…
- MBMy bookmarks of HN and who I'm following2022 · handlr.sapico.me · ▲55
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