HN Follow lets you “follow” authors on Hacker News, and get email notifications when they post. It was inspired by alerthn.com and hnreplies.com.
The app was built in an experimental style. Instead of being a normal app where we store all your data, it is just a wrapper over a series of JavaScript snippets that we guide you through installing, and which you can then customize 100%. The scripts call out to Agolia’s wonderful HN Search API. You can read more about the app’s architecture and it’s motivation here[1].
HN Follow runs on Val Town [2], an online scripting tool my team and I are building. Part of why we built hnfollow.com is to show off the kind of things you can do with the primitives Val Town provides:emailing yourself (`console.email`), persistent state (`@me.foo = "bar"`), persistent cron jobs (`setInterval`), etc. Here’s a demo[3], the docs[4], and Discord[5] for Val Town.
We hope hnfollow.com is useful to you, and you have fun customizing the code directly on Val Town! Let us know if you have questions or feedback
[1] - https://www.notion.so/End-programmer-Programming-a749beb4a9b...
[2] - https://val.town
[3] - https://www.loom.com/share/878294970d8e48919c819f35d0cd0da4
[4] - https://www.notion.so/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e...
[5] - https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830
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The app was built in an experimental style. Instead of being a normal app where we store all your data, it is just a wrapper over a series of JavaScript snippets that we guide you through installing, and which you can then customize 100%. The scripts call out to Agolia’s wonderful HN Search API. You can read more about the app’s architecture and it’s motivation here[1].
HN Follow runs on Val Town [2], an online scripting tool my team and I are building. Part of why we built hnfollow.com is to show off the kind of things you can do with the primitives Val Town provides:emailing yourself (`console.email`), persistent state (`@me.foo = "bar"`), persistent cron jobs (`setInterval`), etc. Here’s a demo[3], the docs[4], and Discord[5] for Val Town.
We hope hnfollow.com is useful to you, and you have fun customizing the code directly on Val Town! Let us know if you have questions or feedback
[1] - https://www.notion.so/End-programmer-Programming-a749beb4a9b...
[2] - https://val.town
[3] - https://www.loom.com/share/878294970d8e48919c819f35d0cd0da4
[4] - https://www.notion.so/Val-Town-Docs-01c8eb9c534b4899802f3a9e...
[5] - https://discord.gg/dHv45uN5RY
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33533830
Points: 13
# Comments: 0
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