Hacker News Slack Bot

Get Slack notifications for HN mentions

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A bot that notifies you on Slack whenever your company/product is mentioned on Hacker News. Powered by Vercel Functions & Upstash.

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Launch tags:

Slack•Social Media•Developer Tools

Launch Team

Steven Tey

Dub.co

Maker

Hey Product Hunt! I'm very excited to launch the Hacker News Slack Bot, built with Vercel Functions & Upstash. Features: ◆ One-click install to Slack ◆ Slack notifications for keyword mentions on HN ◆ Link preview w/ post details + parent title ◆ Open-source, clone & deploy your own How it works: 1. We set up a cron job that securely invokes our `/api/cron` endpoint every minute. 2. The cron gets the latest HN post ID & our last checked ID and scans all posts in between for keyword matches. 3. Once a match is found, send it to the respective Slack channel. Bonus: We also use Slack's `chat.unfurl` API to show a nice link preview for all Hacker News links sent in your Slack workspace. The bot is already used by amazing companies like: ◆ Sanity.io ◆ Typedream.com (W20) ◆ Roboflow.com (S20) ◆ Basedash.com (S20) ◆ Supabase (S20) ◆ Rootly.com (S21) ◆ Cal.com Hope y'all like this! :)

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3yr ago

Spikey Sanju

Expenso

Great work, @steventey! Congrats on the launch! Do you have any plans to support Discord as well? A lot of communities are moving to Discord and Rocket Chat due to Slack's new policy about old messages.

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3yr ago

Steven Tey

Dub.co

Maker

@spikey_sanju Hey, thanks for the kind words & the question! No plans to add that so far but plenty of folks have raised this question as well so I'm sure someone will extend this to work for Discord soon! :)

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3yr ago

Sharath Kuruganty

Love this! Social listening plays a key role when building a community. Do you also have plans to expand this to other platforms apart from HN? Congratulations on the launch though 🚀

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3yr ago

Steven Tey

Dub.co

Maker

@5harath Thanks a lot for the kind words Sharath! No active plans for now but a lot of people have asked for Reddit support so I started an issue here: https://github.com/vercel-labs/h...

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3yr ago

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