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HN · launched Apr 24, 2026 · 30 upvotes (top 21%) · 0 views
Niche: push notification tools · 33 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Workflow automation
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 33 launches in push notification tools →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a straightforward polling/webhook script that monitors the official Firebase Hacker News API or Algolia API for new replies to a user's items and sends a notification.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: hnreplies.com, plzat.me, HN Threads link (native feature), RSS feed of replies
Concerns raised: Encourages flame wars and unproductive arguing, Could be abused by people wanting last word in discussions, Firefox Mobile extension support broken
Feature requests: Push/badge notifications for comment replies, Ability to comment on very old posts, Show whether link displays replies to own submissions, Track conversations across threads with update notifications
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 348 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #75 of 349 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 173 days after the earliest competitor.
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.80
- Hacker Backlinks · hn · 2026-02-06 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.70
- Hackerbrief · hn · 2026-03-16 · 82 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- Hacker News · hn · 2026-11-01 · 6 upvotes · similarity 0.65
- HN Bot Detector · hn · 2026-03-02 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Hacker News RSS Feed Directory · hn · 2026-04-04 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- Real-time push notifications for Hacker News comments · hn · 2026-09-10 · 7 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News · hn · 2026-06-14 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.57
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