Web Push Notifications for Hacker News
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I built a little tool that lets you subscribe to posts, comments and users and get notified when they change.It needs an account on val.town, but that's about it.Also note, for top stories it can get quite chaotic.
HN · launched Apr 4, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 89%) · 0 views
Niche: push notification tools · 33 launches, 2 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Communication
- 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 It is a lightweight script running on Val.town that polls the official Hacker News Firebase API and triggers Web Push notifications.
Discussion
1 comment analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: Cloudflare Workers + Val Town cron, HN Notifier (nbbaier's GitHub project)
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 166 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #160 of 167 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 149 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Discover Wikipedia articles popular on Hacker News · hn · 2026-06-14 · 140 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- Hacker News but for comments posted on HN · hn · 2026-11-02 · 19 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HackerSwipe · ph · 2026-10-22 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HNswered · hn · 2026-04-24 · 30 upvotes · similarity 0.49
- Push Agent · ph · 2026-10-06 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Hacker News RSS Feed Directory · hn · 2026-04-04 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.48
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