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Comment by lobster_johnson | Hacker News Reader

I use hnreplies.com, and it works pretty well. But it goes through periods of not working at all.

The problem with these services (there also used to be one called hnnotify.com, which didn't last long) is that they're developed by HN users, who don't seem to care enough to keep the services working 100%.

YC seems to prefer a development model where the community fills in the gaps of missing functionality, but this also means you can't expect much from the resulting services. I would much rather have this built into HN.

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>YC seems to prefer a development model where the community fills in the gaps of missing functionality, but this also means you can't expect much from the resulting services. I would much rather have this built into HN.

I would prefer the best of both worlds - let users write plugins that consume a more robust version of the API and add that functionality themselves. They could even be posted publicly and integrated by other users with some arbitrary amount of karma, and plugins would necessarily be restricted in their capabilities and maybe even rate limited.

Heck, add an endpoint for a WASM compiler and an option to use multiple languages.

It will never happen, though.

HN used to natively support sending push notifications through Notifo, but that company folded and the feature went away.

I guess one of these HN-comment-e-mailing websites needs to apply to YC to actually have a chance of getting integrated into the site.

I'd prefer it to be builtin too. Just a number beside my username in the top right, that when clicked, takes me to a list of comments and submissions that have been commented on.

> "I'd prefer it to be builtin too"

Same, I can see all sorts of nefarious uses for this service (not necessarily by the guy who built it, more so by trolls who can use it to target HN users). If I really need something like this, I'm competent enough to build and host it privately for my own use. Given I'm not even a programmer by trade, I'm sure that last statement is even more true for the majority of users here.

I'd love this built in. It would work better than anything I could create!

But until a feature like that exists, I'll stick with mine.

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