Find launch context on the Hacker News frontpage
A launch creates a lot to track. Have Notis check the Hacker News frontpage for related stories so you can decide where a thoughtful follow-up is useful.
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 Hackernews Frontpage
Get the frontpage posts of hacker news.
Why this helps
After launch, founders juggle reactions and next steps while relevant community activity slips by.
- Add a quick community context check to a launch update.
- Identify related stories without manually scanning the frontpage.
- Use the results to decide which follow-up deserves attention.
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 from a plain-language request.
- 3Tell Notis to fetch the Hacker News frontpage when a Telegram launch note arrives and summarize stories relevant to the launch.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose a run-report channel.
- 5Test with one launch note containing the product or topic you want tracked.
Questions about this workflow
Does this post anything to Hacker News?
No. The action retrieves frontpage posts for review; the workflow does not submit or publish content.
Can I use a private founder chat?
The New Message Received trigger supports private chats, groups, and supergroups the bot can access.
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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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