Check recent Hacker News posts for a competitor mention
A market check shouldn't become a research project. Send a company or product name in Telegram and get a short recap of matching recent posts.
Trigger
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.
Action
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
Why this helps
Competitor checks are often irregular because they require remembering a search and repeating it across sources.
- Start a targeted market check from a quick message.
- See recent posts associated with a competitor name.
- Make lightweight research easier to repeat when needed.
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 ask Notis to create it conversationally.
- 3Prompt Notis to fetch recent Hacker News posts matching a company or product named in the Telegram message, and summarize the discussion.
- 4Set Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose a channel for run reports.
- 5Test using a competitor or product name you want to monitor.
Questions about this workflow
Can it compare several competitors?
The prompt can ask Notis to consider several names in a message and report the matching posts for each.
Does it monitor continuously?
This version starts a scan when a relevant Telegram message arrives. A recurring schedule would be a separate automation.
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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.
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 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.
Get Latest Hackernews Posts
Get the latest posts from hacker news based on optional filters. results can be limited using the size parameter.
New Channel Post
Triggered when a new post is published to a channel where your bot is an administrator.
Get Hackernews Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Callback Query Received
Triggered when a user taps an inline keyboard button attached to one of your bot's messages.
Get Hackernews User
Get a specific user from hacker news using their username.
Message Edited
Triggered when a message in a chat your bot can see is edited by its sender.
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.
New Chat Member
Triggered when a new member joins a group or supergroup the bot belongs to, including when the bot itself is added.
Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Hackernews, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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