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Check Hacker News when your channel shares an idea

A channel post can be a useful prompt for a quick market pulse. Have Notis review the current frontpage and summarize stories related to its subject.

Trigger

New Channel Post

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

Action

Get Hackernews Frontpage

Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.

Why this helps

A team shares an idea or announcement, but nobody has time to check whether the Hacker News community is discussing related topics.

  • Turn an existing channel post into a timely research cue.
  • See which frontpage stories connect to the shared subject.
  • Keep the update and its research follow-up together.

Setup

Build it in a few focused steps.

  • 1Connect Telegram and Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
  • 2Create the automation in the portal, or tell Notis in plain language what the channel post should prompt.
  • 3Ask Notis to fetch the Hacker News frontpage after a new channel post and summarize stories related to the post's topic.
  • 4Select Telegram New Channel Post as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
  • 5Test by publishing one relevant post in a channel where the bot is an administrator.

Questions about this workflow

Does this trigger work in any Telegram channel?

The bot needs to be an administrator in the channel where you want its new posts to trigger the automation.

Will every frontpage item be included?

The prompt can ask Notis to focus its summary on the stories related to the channel post's subject.

When this happens · Trigger

Do this · Action

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

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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