Nice work - looks like a cross between IFTTT and Pushbullet.
What are your differentiating factors?
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#12Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
That is not true. [0] [1] [2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying. [0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API [2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush
But you need to have the page open in a browser on your phone, no?
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
That is not true. [0] [1] [2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying. [0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API [2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush
None of these work natively on iOS.
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#14I have a feature request: I loved the idea at first glance but then I was appalled to discover that there's nowhere to register a callback URL for any of these events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook To me it just seems obvious that there should be an either/or option for SMS or HTTP especially since a metric shitton of people are already using slack and hipchat. The transmission costs for HTTP are way more che…
This doesn't strike me as a developer tool (though it could obviously be used by developers). It's for consumers. I don't know of many consumers who want to receive notifications via webhook.
If they did do webhooks then you could write one that sent out SMSs though - leave them to do the hard part while cutting them out of the loop!
Also I think it's push notifications, not SMS.
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#15Earlier quoted context omitted.
That is not true. [0] [1] [2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying. [0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API [2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush
None of these work natively on iOS.
This doesn't work on iOS? I thought it did. [0] claims it can do this on Chrome for iOS, or maybe by native you mean on Safari, which doesn't seem to support it...
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#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
None of these work natively on iOS.
This doesn't work on iOS? I thought it did. [0] claims it can do this on Chrome for iOS, or maybe by native you mean on Safari, which doesn't seem to support it... [0]: https://storage-cdn.realtime.co/chrome-push/index.html
Yeah by natively I meant without installing 3rd party apps, which is what the GP complained about.
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#17Is this better than Facebook's notify? (Which I actually love - relevant stuff waiting for me on my lock screen without any audio notifications)
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#18Nice work - looks like a cross between IFTTT and Pushbullet. What are your differentiating factors?
I came here to ask the same thing, sort of. Pushover and Pushbullet both work with IFTTT, and IIRC used to be the only way to get IFTTT to send you mobile push notifications.
However, now that IFTTT supports push notifications, why do you still need Pushover or Pushbullet?
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#19Is this better than Facebook's notify? (Which I actually love - relevant stuff waiting for me on my lock screen without any audio notifications)
It's different. On Facebook Notify you subscribe to a channel and then they decide what you get, very similar to rss feed. On Hooks you customize what you want to get exactly and where you want to get it from, like post with 200 points on HN so you get only the content you asked for.
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#20I have a feature request: I loved the idea at first glance but then I was appalled to discover that there's nowhere to register a callback URL for any of these events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook To me it just seems obvious that there should be an either/or option for SMS or HTTP especially since a metric shitton of people are already using slack and hipchat. The transmission costs for HTTP are way more che…
Hi, we are working on adding this to our API as webhooks, so you can use the content on your app. For now you can check this: https://dev.gethooksapp.com