[eternal_virgin]

Does anyone have an alternative that behaves closer to Google Alerts, i.e. alerts for when a website or brand is mentioned on HN? Looking for something that's also realtime :)

[jkarneges]

Not a full solution, but there's the API at https://hnstream.com/ for getting realtime updates of comments, which could be used to build a notification system.

[dylburger]

Check out this workflow: https://pipedream.com/@dylburger/google-alerts-for-hacker-ne... . Just follow the instructions in the README, changing your KEYWORDS to the set of keywords you'd like to receive notifications for.

You can run the cron job up to once a minute for free, so it's pretty close to realtime :) .

[kiwicopple]

I use F5bot and it’s great

[Multicomp]

Seconded. I have watch words setup for several keywords. I turn off lobste.rs since I feel HN is already high enough for me in the ivory tower (aka I haven't networked enough to get an in crowd lobsters invite).

[ignoramous]

I recall Cloudflare CTO, jgrahamc, mention he uses / built exactly what you ask for [0].

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19486562

[marcxmiller]

"I try to answer questions about Cloudflare, or comments about the company, here when I have the time. I do the same on Twitter (and to a certain extent on Reddit). I have code that monitors HN for mentions of "Cloudflare" and emails me within a couple of minutes."

[cameronbrown]

I'm building a service that lets you subscribe to feeds and optionally apply filters. If you used hnrss with it you could probably achieve your goals?

[lettergram]

Hacker News is included in my companies website:

https://lettergram.net

And

https://projectpiglet.com

At one point, I also built a chrome extension with similar news feed functionality for a client through Gigster... (I think it was an Admin for HN). Can’t release that though.

[nloui]

We're not quite real-time but this is in our wheelhouse https://www.civicfeed.com/

[rapfaria]

What would gain with realtime? Genuine question.