Real-time push notifications for Hacker News comments
Details
- External ID
- 49644273
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Real-time push notifications for Hacker News comments
- Website domain
- hcker.news
- Launched
- Sept. 10, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 7
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.4393939393939394
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 14, 2026, 5:28 p.m.
Description
Hello folks,I built a service to provide you with real-time push notifications whenever someone replies to you on Hacker News, served right through your browser: https://hcker.news/notificationsIt has always been difficult to keep track of replies here, especially across long threads (purposefully so[0]).What makes this differe nt from other implementations (notable prior art: hnreplies.com by @dangrossman): 1. Real-time or once a day: You can choose to have notifications sent immediately (you get notified within ~20 seconds) or once a day. 2. Stories + Replies: Choose to get notified of replies to your comments and your submissions. 3. Private: You don't have to provide an email address (many people value their pseudonymity) How it works: 1. Go to https://hcker.news/notifications and enter your HN username. 2. Allow browser notifications when prompted. 3. That's it. When someone replies to you, your browser receives a push notification. Caveats: It works on Desktop (Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Edge), Android, and iOS. On desktop, your browser must be open to receive notifications. On iOS, it works via PWA – you must add it to your home screen.Give it a try, I'd love your feedback. Cheers!0: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27897211#27901918
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- hacker news comment notifications
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes The core app polls or streams Hacker News Firebase/Algolia APIs for replies and issues standard Web Push notifications, easily assembled by a solo vibe coder.
Discussion
No comments on this launch.
Competitors
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Launched 312 days after the earliest competitor.
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