Add a focused Hacker News check to your Telegram check-in
Attach a small research step to a check-in you already do. Mention the technology you're watching and get today's relevant Hacker News posts summarized.
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 Today Posts
Get today's posts from hacker news.
Why this helps
Recurring review routines often omit outside signals because researching them feels like a separate task.
- Pair a brief story scan with an existing check-in.
- Keep the topic tied to the week's active priorities.
- Make research easier to review without starting a broad browsing session.
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.
- 3Prompt Notis to review today's Hacker News posts when a Telegram check-in names a technology topic and summarize only relevant stories.
- 4Choose Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and select a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a check-in message that names one technology you are watching.
Questions about this workflow
Does this require a scheduled check-in?
No. This version starts when a Telegram message arrives. The message can be part of any check-in routine you already use.
Can I request a weekly summary instead?
The selected action returns today's posts. Describe in the prompt how Notis should summarize relevant items for your review.
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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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