Notifications and alerts
Push notifications for replies, drafts, good conversations and new leads on the projects you watch, plus Telegram and Slack alerts for the best threads, with the drafted reply.
Larvabot works in the background every hour, whether or not you're signed in. Notifications tell you when that work turns up something worth a look, so you don't have to keep checking.
There are two kinds: push notifications on your computer or phone, for everything worth your attention, and optional Telegram and Slack alerts for the very best conversations.
#Push notifications
After each background run, you get one push per project you watch, and only when something is new. It sums up what happened and opens the page that needs you most:
| What's new | Opens |
|---|---|
| Someone replied to your email | Emails → Sent |
| Emails ready to send | Emails → Ready to send |
| A conversation that fits well (70 or more) | Conversations |
| New leads found | Emails → In progress |
| The tracking snippet stopped working | Setup |
A newer push for the same project replaces the older one, so they don't pile up.
#Turn them on
- Allow this device. Open Settings → Notifications and click Turn on notifications, then Allow when your browser asks. Do this on every computer or phone you want alerts on.
- Pick your projects. In the same place, switch on the projects to watch. You can also click Notify me at the top of any project.
- Test it. Click Send a test. A notification should appear within a few seconds.
iPhone and iPad
Apple only allows web push for sites added to the Home Screen. In Safari, tap Share → Add to Home Screen, open Larvabot from that icon, then turn on notifications there.
Nothing arrived? Check that notifications are allowed for app.larvabot.com in your browser's site settings and in your computer's notification settings (Focus or Do Not Disturb modes hide them too).
To stop them, switch a project off, click Turn off for a device, or block notifications in the browser.
#Telegram alerts
The best conversations go stale fast: a question on Reddit or Hacker News gets its useful answers in the first few hours. Telegram alerts ping you the moment Larvabot finds one that fits really well, with the details right in the message.
#What triggers a Telegram alert
A message is sent when a new conversation scores 85 or more for relevance, on any platform. It includes the project, where it was posted, the title and the evidence the AI found, with a button to open it.
Telegram only gets these top conversations: no digests, no "your job ran" noise. Most days you'll get none or a couple.
#Set it up (two minutes)
- Create a bot. In Telegram, message @BotFather, send
/newbot, and pick a name and a username ending inbot. BotFather replies with a token like123456:ABC…. - Paste the token. In Larvabot, open Settings → Notifications, paste it into Bot token and save.
- Say hello. Open your new bot in Telegram and send it any message.
- Detect. Back in Settings, click Detect. Larvabot reads who messaged the bot and fills in Your chat ID.
Only you can receive alerts from your bot, because only your chat ID is saved. If someone else finds and messages it, nothing happens.
Make it stand out
In Telegram, give the bot chat a custom notification sound. Then you'll know it's a good thread and not the family group chat.
#Turning Telegram alerts off
Clear the Bot token in Settings, or mute the chat in Telegram. You can also delete the bot from @BotFather with /deletebot.
#Slack alerts
Slack alerts post the same top conversations (85 or more) to a Slack channel you pick, so whoever on your team is free can answer while the thread is fresh. Each message has the post title linked to the thread, the evidence the AI found, the drafted reply (copy it straight from Slack), and links to the post and to Larvabot. More than five at once? The first five are posted in full, then one line links to the rest.
They're built in and free on every plan, Slack's free plan included. You don't need Zapier or Make.
#Set it up (two minutes)
- Create a Slack app. Go to api.slack.com/apps, click Create New App → From scratch, name it Larvabot and pick your workspace.
- Add a webhook. Open Incoming Webhooks, switch it On, click Add New Webhook and choose the channel (for example #leads).
- Paste it. Copy the URL (it starts with
https://hooks.slack.com/services/). In Larvabot, open Settings → Notifications, paste it into Alerts (Slack) → Webhook URL and save. - Test it. Click Send a test. A message should appear in the channel within seconds.
The webhook can only post to that one channel. It can't read your channels, messages or members.
Different channels per project
Slack alerts go to one channel per Larvabot account. To send each project somewhere else, or to post lower scores too, use the New Conversation trigger in Zapier, Make or n8n with your own filter.
#Turning Slack alerts off
Clear the Webhook URL in Settings, or remove the webhook from your Slack app (Incoming Webhooks → Remove). If Slack stops accepting the webhook (removed, or the channel archived), Send a test tells you to paste a new one.