Review Hacker News contributor profiles on a schedule
Set a regular time to revisit public profiles that are relevant to your community research.
Trigger
Recurring schedule
Notis starts this workflow on a schedule, such as daily, weekly, or during business hours.
Action
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Why this helps
Names worth checking may sit in scattered notes without a reliable moment to follow up.
- Create a predictable time for selected profile lookups.
- Keep contributor research from disappearing into notes.
- Review the returned public profile details in one run report.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create a monthly recurring automation in the portal or ask Notis to set it up conversationally.
- 3In one plain-language instruction, ask Notis to look up the Hacker News usernames you specify and summarize their public profile details.
- 4Choose a monthly schedule and the channel for automation run reports.
- 5Test with a real username to ensure the instruction identifies the intended profile.
Questions about this workflow
How do I specify usernames?
List the usernames in the plain-language instruction, then update it when the set of profiles you want to review changes.
Does this track profile changes over time?
The action fetches a user profile for a run. The workflow can summarize the returned details, but does not guarantee historical change tracking.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Slack to Hackernews. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Slack 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.
New Channel Created Trigger
Triggered when a new channel is created in Slack.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Channel Message Received
Triggered when a message is posted in a Slack channel (public, private, or multi-party IM). Does NOT match direct messages.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Message Reaction Added
Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
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.
Message Reaction Removed
Triggered when a reaction is removed from a message in Slack. Supports optional filtering by channel and emoji name.
Reaction Added Trigger
DEPRECATED: use `SLACK_MESSAGE_REACTION_ADDED` instead. Triggered when a reaction is added to a message in Slack.
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Slack and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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