Get a weekly Hacker News brief tied to active projects
Review one short digest of relevant frontpage conversations instead of checking the feed whenever you have a spare moment.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Why this helps
Unstructured trend checking creates repeated context switches and makes it hard to remember what was worth following.
- Create a predictable time for a quick technology pulse check.
- Tie notable posts to active project topics.
- Reduce repeated feed checking throughout the week.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Linear and Hacker News to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis to send a weekly HN brief tied to active Linear projects.
- 3Use one plain-language instruction asking for relevant frontpage themes, links, and a short explanation of project relevance.
- 4Pick a weekly Notis cron trigger and a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with one run, then choose the recurring schedule that fits your week.
Questions about this workflow
Can the brief include projects I am currently working on?
Describe in the instruction how Notis should identify active Linear projects and connect them to frontpage themes.
When does the brief arrive?
Choose the recurring schedule when setting the Notis cron trigger.
When this happens · Trigger
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Linear to Hackernews. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Linear triggers
Hackernews actions
Recurring trigger
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Get Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Webhook trigger
Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.
Get Hackernews Item
Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.
Comment Received Trigger
Triggered when a comment is received.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Issue Created Trigger
Triggered when a new issue is created.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Issue Updated Trigger
Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Private Team Comment Created
Fires when a new comment is posted on an issue in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Search Hackernews Posts
Get relevant posts from hacker news based on a full-text query and optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Private Team Issue Created
Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Private Team Issue Properties Updated
Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Linear and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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