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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

Do this · Action

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.

TriggerScheduled

Get Hackernews Frontpage

Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.

ActionInstant

Webhook trigger

Notis starts this workflow when an external tool or custom backend sends an HTTP request.

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews Item

Get a specific item from hacker news using its id. limits response size to prevent context overflow.

ActionInstant

Comment Received Trigger

Triggered when a comment is received.

TriggerInstant

Get Latest Hackernews Posts

Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.

ActionInstant

Issue Created Trigger

Triggered when a new issue is created.

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews Today Posts

Get today's posts from hacker news.

ActionInstant

Issue Updated Trigger

Triggered when an issue is updated. For example labels are changed, issue status is changed, etc.

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews User

Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.

ActionInstant

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).

TriggerPolling

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.

ActionInstant

Private Team Issue Created

Fires when a new issue appears in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).

TriggerPolling

Private Team Issue Properties Updated

Fires when properties on an issue change in a private Linear team (polled with the connected user's token).

TriggerPolling

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

Linear and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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