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Connect Telegram to Hackernews

When something happens in Telegram, Notis takes the next step in Hackernews. Describe what you want in plain English, or start from one of the examples below.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

Examples

Ways Notis can move work from Telegram to Hackernews

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Find Hacker News discussions for founder questions

Send a product or engineering question to your Telegram bot and get relevant Hacker News discussions to inform your next decision.

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Turn a Telegram channel post into a Hacker News frontpage brief

Use a new post in your founder channel as a cue to fetch the Hacker News frontpage and surface the stories most relevant to its topic.

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Get context for a Hacker News item shared in Telegram

Share a Hacker News item ID or link with your Telegram bot to retrieve a concise view of the specific discussion.

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Request a latest-post scan with one Telegram tap

Attach a callback button to a Telegram bot message so a tap triggers a scan of recent Hacker News posts and a concise topic-based recap.

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Check today's Hacker News stories from a Telegram note

Send a topic or technology note to your bot and have Notis review today's Hacker News posts for relevant signals.

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Refresh research when a Telegram message changes

When you edit a Telegram message with a clearer topic or question, search Hacker News again using the updated wording.

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Welcome new members with Hacker News profile context

When a member joins a Telegram founder group, look up a Hacker News profile when their username is available and share a careful, relevant context note.

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Check the Hacker News frontpage after a launch note

Send a launch note to Telegram and get a frontpage check for related stories or community discussion to inform your follow-up.

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Scan recent Hacker News posts for competitor mentions

Send a competitor or product name to Telegram and have Notis review recent Hacker News posts for matching discussion.

Supported Triggers and Actions

Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Hackernews. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.

Telegram 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

New Message Received

Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.

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

New Channel Post

Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews Today Posts

Get today's posts from hacker news.

ActionInstant

Callback Query Received

Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.

TriggerInstant

Get Hackernews User

Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.

ActionInstant

Message Edited

Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.

TriggerInstant

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

New Chat Member

Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.

TriggerInstant
Trigger Types

Four ways to start an automation.

A trigger is the event that kicks a workflow off. Notis supports four kinds: an event in a connected app, an inbound webhook, a recurring schedule, and soon, your own database.

Integration triggers

Fire when something happens inside a connected app. New Notion page, Stripe charge, Linear issue: any of 1,000+ apps can start a workflow.

New Notion pageStripe chargeCalendar event

Webhook triggers

A unique URL per workflow. Anything that can send an HTTP POST can start an automation, including no-code tools that speak webhooks.

Any HTTP POSTCustom backendIoT event
Works with
ZapierPipedream
Most used

Recurring triggers

Cron-style schedules run a workflow on the clock. Daily standups, hourly syncs, business-hours-only digests: the workhorse of Notis.

Daily · 8:00HourlyWeekdays only
Coming soon

Database triggers

Watch a row, query, or threshold in your own database and fire the moment the data changes. Row inserted, value crosses a limit, query starts matching.

Row insertedValue > limitQuery match
Why AI automation

Classic automation breaks. AI adapts.

Same triggers and actions, smarter middle. AI handles the fuzziness that breaks traditional Zapier-style workflows the moment a field gets renamed.

Classic automationAI automation
Cost
$ · pay per run
$$ · AI models per run
Reliability
Breaks on schema change
Adapts to format changes
Setup
Click 8 dropdowns
Describe it in English
Handles fuzzy
Hard-coded fields only
Reads intent, summarises
Human in loop
Bolted on
Built in · approval inbox
Maintenance
You own every break
Self-heals · we own it
Ease of use

Describe it. Notis builds it.

Skip the visual builder. Tell Notis what you want, in plain English. It writes the workflow, you review and deploy.

Notis

You · in the Notis Builder

NEW

“When a row gets added to the Q4 OKRs Notion database and the status is Blocked, send a Telegram message to the owner with a summary of what's blocking, and ping me if there's no reply within 24 hours.”

Notis built this automation:

TriggerRow added to "Q4 OKRs"
Condition✦Status = "Blocked"
AI step✦Summarise the blocker in plain English
ActionDM the row owner with summary
Timeout✦No reply in 24h → ping you
Observability

Watch every run.

Notis Desktop is Mission Control for your AI automations. See every run, replay, edit, or rewind. Set approval gates so Notis pauses before destructive actions.

  • Full run history with inputs, outputs and traces
  • Replay any run with edited inputs
  • Approval inbox, confirm via chat in one tap
  • Audit logs for compliance teams

Automations

Inbox

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Migrate background jobs to a durable queue You can cancel it through Stripe

3 days

Notis v3 release update This one’s v3: Notis Manager (desktop app with …

8 days

Add multi-tenant RBAC User initiates a voice call

13 days

Draft pricing v (tiers, limits, overages) and sanity-check margins

2 weeks

Verify analytics events for new features That’s a really interesting automat…

1 month

Everything in the box.

Whatever starts the workflow, the platform underneath is the same: a thinking brain, full visibility, and you in control.

AI in the middle

Every step can include an LLM call: summarise, classify, extract, rewrite.

Full observability

Every run, every step, every input, all replay-able from Mission Control.

Human in the loop

Pause for approval. Notis pings you in chat with one-tap approve.

Self-healing

When an API changes shape, Notis adapts the parser. Less midnight fire-fighting.

Related pairs

More ways to connect Telegram and Hackernews

Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.

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

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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