Search Hacker News when a question comes up in Telegram
Ask in the chat where you already think out loud. Notis can find relevant Hacker News conversations and return the useful context in one place.
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
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.
Why this helps
A promising question gets buried in chat while you lose time opening several tabs to research it.
- Research a decision without leaving the conversation where it came up.
- Get related community discussions collected around the question.
- Reduce the odds that an unanswered question disappears in chat history.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Hackernews to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal, or ask Notis conversationally to create one.
- 3In the prompt, ask Notis to search Hacker News for posts relevant to each new Telegram message that contains a founder question, then summarize useful discussions.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose where Notis should report runs.
- 5Test by sending one real product or engineering question to the bot.
Questions about this workflow
Does every Telegram message need to be a research question?
Describe in the prompt which messages count as questions worth researching. Notis interprets that instruction when it handles each trigger.
What does the automation search?
It searches Hacker News posts using the question's subject and returns relevant results with a concise summary.
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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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