I’ll be honest, with respect to you, I expected you to answer this way and it almost made me angry at your blog post for existing.

Like you made this thing only for yourself and there’s no way for me to obtain it, paid or not.

There’s no real tutorial content on how I can do it myself.

So what value is the audience getting out of this article?

I realize I’m not owed anything but I hope you see what I mean here.

From the guidelines: “Hacker News Guidelines

What to Submit On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.”

I think this satisfies my intelectual curiosity.

I understand the guidelines, I am not claiming the post violates guidelines.

I didn’t claim it violated them either. I just thought having a curious story was a good enough value for this post to exist. I don’t think it needs code or a product.. in fact .. I wish more people did this kind of posts.. and just encourage people to do stuff for the sake of it .. be it a notification system for your friends … or just a story about friendship.

Also from the guidelines, HN is not primarily for (self) promo. This isn’t a Show HN, though, so it’s not necessary for us to have something we can hold and play with. Look with your eyes and enjoy OP’s thing vicariously.

In the vibe code era, is it gauche to ask for code?

Considering that OP hasn’t made any other posts or comments in any other threads, it’s fair to assume that they are like 90% of users who don’t post or comment, but they did in this thread about their stuff, so it is sort of a legitimate criticism.

> So what value is the audience getting out of this article?

getting idea that they can replicate or confirmation that such idea worked for someone

Man, what.

This is something that Claude will get right in a single prompt. It's the idea that's valuable, as well as the experience report.

And .. there is actually code for the bot inside the story.

Serious advice, some people don't work so well with heat and get angry fast (there is a heat wave in europe right now). Drink a lot and splash your head with water helps ..

Fixing a social problem by technical means? That's rare enough to merit shouting about it, even if it's not generally applicable.

I don't get it. What in the post did you find so novel that you want a full solution based on that? It's just a notification service which you can whip up in half an hour with any messaging service. It would probably take 10 minutes to do it using telegram. 30 if you need to create a brand new bot.