Web Push Notifications for Hacker News
Details
- External ID
- 47636820
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- Web Push Notifications for Hacker News
- Website domain
- val.run
- Launched
- April 4, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 5
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.11182519280205655
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:26 p.m.
Description
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.
Enrichment
- Theme
- Hacker News clients, datasets, and tools
- Vertical
- Media & entertainment
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Hobby / open-source project
- Normalized one-liner
- push notifications for hacker news
- Manually corrected
- False
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
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Launched 149 days after the earliest competitor.
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