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It depends. Sometimes I feel that OAI performs better, and sometimes deepseek does.

An email for every reply can be annoying. The extension I developed embeds an In-App Inbox inside HackerNews (If you've used Reddit, you know). So, everything stays inside HackerNews itself. No push notifications or emails.

That is nice. I believe there should be some way to quickly find replies that I'm interested in responding.

That's nice :) In my case, notification (or an indicator atleast) help me save a lot of time. This is especially when I'm serious about knowing the latest updates on something. If it's something less critical, I'd simply snooze them!

Are you sure there are spambots here?

Nice to hear your perspective. Just asking, You wouldn't use it even if it's just a badge (or an indication), and nothing intrusive like a push, or a popup?

If anyone want to try, here it is - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hn-notifier-hacker...

(It doesn't collect or use any of your personal information, cookies or anything)

For a developer, it might look "easier" because literally anything could be built by coding if there is no limit on the time and money they can spend.

But for a company, this means more to them. Of course, they can build anything but there is something called "opportunity cost". A CPO or a CTO or the leadership thinks differently compared to a software developer. The decision is between "whether we should build this feature and add one more potential point of failure for or just buy it and let the vendor worry about it". And this time and effort (that could exponentially grow as the product scale) could be used to build another core product feature that will add direct value to our users.

Most of the time, the "buy" decision is less riskier and economical (in the long run), unless you are a tech giant like Amazon or Google where they might build everything in-house or just acquire the vendor's product and make it their own.

This is cool. Is there a way to write custom integrations?

As you might already know, Heroku is stopping their free tier next month. Many developers were using Heroku to host their side projects, and to deploy branches for PR review.

I tried to make a list of alternatives with a free tier. Please feel free to contribute to the repo through PRs.

I got confused with the term "size compared to moon".

lol :)

Oops, I need to edit manifest.json. Well, there is no email. It just shows notifies you via the bell embdedded in your Hacker News header. No push or anything intrusive :)

It won't call the HN API for each user.

Just added the license :)

I agree. hnreplies.com is a nice tool. I built this extension just for the in-app bell which is missing in HN.

Sure! Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback. Btw, there is a hosted version of this extension available on Google Chrome Webstore - shorturl.at/RU236

Thanks for the feedback.

Btw, this extension doesn't use any private information such as cookies or email. It just uses the public HN username to track replies posted on your threads.

Engagespot is an API that I'm building and I just used it to build this free extension for the HN community :)

Yes. IMHO, having an unread count is not annoying, but productive.

The backend hits the API every five seconds (not per user). Also, as per the HN API docs, currently there is no rate limit.

Yes, the problem is that, sometimes we miss an important reply in a threaded conversation. With an extention like this, it easier to spot new replies so I don't have to keep checking my threads.

Hey HN,

I developed this opensource chrome extension that simply adds a bell to HN header. It shows the count of new replies (that you might have missed).

Clicking on the bell opens a notification inbox which shows the comment preview without having to visit the thread.

Loved it. I'm gonna try this for Engagespot :)

I use Safari on my mac, because it doesn't make my system slow

The extension simply gets your public HN username and uses that to uniquely identify you. So there is no need to store any cookies.

Hey HN,

I made a chrome extension that embeds a bell icon in your Hacker News header.

It shows the count of new unread replies to your HN threads. Clicking on it shows the unread comments, and you can directly navigate to the thread from there.

Unlike similar tools, this one is less intrusive as it doesn’t send any push notifications or emails. It just shows the count of unread replies whenever you come back to HN.

Also, this extension does not collect your email, cookies or any sensitive information. It just uses your public HN username!

Planning to build more features like grouped notifications. Would also love to hear your feedback and suggestions to improve this extension. Please follow us on Twitter https://twitter.com/engagespot to stay updated.

I just tried this. It’s so useful.