Love this. Submitted "Notify me when someone in the open source community is looking for design help" Need this for finding open source projects to weekendhackers newsletter.
How do you expect them to fulfill this request?
Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens
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#13Is this an MVP or does it actually work automatically? I noticed the part where it says it has to be reviewed by a human and then I thought it would be way easier to get notified by text instead of email. Boom! Feature request ha!
If you are in doubt, just submit the request and will let you know if it can be done or not.
It sounds like they are manually writing scrapers for each request.
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#14Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of Hooks (gethooksapp.com), an alerts-for-everything ios app. We went public beta 2 weeks ago.
Talking about MVPs, I hate myself for not having started with something like this. Instead of creating an web form where you can ask the users what they want (and giving the service, if not its not mvp!), we waited until we had an stable good looking ios app (with 35 different types of alerts, dynamic forms etc etc) -4 months of hard work.
FYI, we used surveys (we did ~1000) for validating the idea and getting new alert ideas but that's nothing compared with real users feedback. That's something you can't get until you launch something that looks real (like getnotifiedapp.com does). In two weeks we've learnt more about our app than ever before, including surveys, private testflights and so. Lesson learned (and this is something we cannot say noone told us, its at every modern startup book)
Good luck with this project!
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#15Love this. Submitted "Notify me when someone in the open source community is looking for design help" Need this for finding open source projects to weekendhackers newsletter.
How do you expect them to fulfill this request?
Have no idea. What I have done so far is search for small project on ex. twitter. and then go through them to see what makes sense or not.
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#16There are tons of notification services out there, but most of them focus on one particular niche (such as stock prices, social mentions, monitoring news sites, etc.) On the one hand, I like how broad this is. It purports to handle a bunch of different types of events, and all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English. On the other hand, I'm skeptical about how well a service can execute when it has t…
Few ways we handle the notifications : 1. Find existing service that handles the job - integrate it, or just let the user know, or subscribe to it on behalf of the user. 2. Write code - automate it, script it if possible 3. Virtual assistance - let our VAs handle the monitoring if there is no other way Hope this answers :) Thanks for the fix!
By VA you mean something like TaskRabbit?
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#17Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of Hooks (gethooksapp.com), an alerts-for-everything ios app. We went public beta 2 weeks ago. Talking about MVPs, I hate myself for not having started with something like this. Instead of creating an web form where you can ask the users what they want (and giving the service, if not its not mvp!), we waited until we had an stable good looking ios app (with 35 different types of alerts, dyna…
what do you use as your data back end?
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#18If you're interested in a self-hosted solution, much of this can be accomplished with Huginn. https://github.com/cantino/huginn
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#19Disclaimer: I'm cofounder of Hooks (gethooksapp.com), an alerts-for-everything ios app. We went public beta 2 weeks ago. Talking about MVPs, I hate myself for not having started with something like this. Instead of creating an web form where you can ask the users what they want (and giving the service, if not its not mvp!), we waited until we had an stable good looking ios app (with 35 different types of alerts, dyna…
what do you use as your data back end?
Mongo for storing notifications. MySQL for non intensive things. We developed the backend on our own.
ps. I'm a BIG fan of huginn and your work. We studied it and had a very interesting discussion on moving everything to your platform, but we already had a mature version of our backend when we found it and we are not rubyists. I can remember writing on twitter something like "We have hit the open source jackpot". Said that, we will try sooner than later to, at least, connect your agents to our platform.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
what do you use as your data back end?
Mongo for storing notifications. MySQL for non intensive things. We developed the backend on our own. ps. I'm a BIG fan of huginn and your work. We studied it and had a very interesting discussion on moving everything to your platform, but we already had a mature version of our backend when we found it and we are not rubyists. I can remember writing on twitter something like "We have hit the open source jackpot". Sai…
Awesome! It might be useful for you. Send me a note if you have any questions.