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Is it open source? Can I see the code? Edit: Specifically I want to validate the claim "all my data stays on my browser"
This looks great, congratulations. 1) Do you have any plans to allow arbitrary RSS as notifications, or integrating with ITTT? This could allow people to create notifications for services that you don't support. 2) While I don't believe everything has to be monetized, I was wondering if you do have a plan to make money, and if you do, would you mind sharing?
Thanks and great questions! 1. We're currently looking at creative options to support personalized notifications. One possibility is something similar to what Rapportive did and provide sites with a way to deliver notifications. 2. We honestly did this because it was a need we had. We're looking at a number of strategies. The most likely is a set of premium features for a one-time fee. That said, we might just leave…
Is it open source? Can I see the code? Edit: Specifically I want to validate the claim "all my data stays on my browser"
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Thanks and great questions! 1. We're currently looking at creative options to support personalized notifications. One possibility is something similar to what Rapportive did and provide sites with a way to deliver notifications. 2. We honestly did this because it was a need we had. We're looking at a number of strategies. The most likely is a set of premium features for a one-time fee. That said, we might just leave…
What about limiting the number of services for the free version; say the first five are free, then a one time fee to unlock additional.
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What about limiting the number of services for the free version; say the first five are free, then a one time fee to unlock additional.
This is certainly one option and we're still thinking. Our main goal is to make cool stuff that people love, and then we'll focus on monetization. :-)
It seems that in today's world, too many companies get a hair-brained idea from some executive that thinks they've got it all figured out, spend 100's of thousands building it, and millions to market it... only to discover that nobody actually likes it and/or will ever use it.
I don't want to name names (as I'm not looking to start a flamewar), but off the top-of-my-head I can think of several very prominent, very successful (historically) corporations that seem to use such a marketing-driven approach: instead of letting users fall in love with the product by their own devices, instead the corp tries to make the product and only then do they try to sell the user on why they should love it.
Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't, but when it doesn't it can be a costly mistake. When you have a compelling product or service, marketing is minimal; word-of-mouth is king!
Cheers, your service looks very cool.
An example would be my usage of Google Reader; there's a Chrome app[1] that shows notifications for new items, but I haven't been under 1000 new items in years ("1000+" is as high as it tracks). Yes, I have many feeds I need to prune out, but even then, I may get upwards of 100 new items a day in my reader and I sure as heck don't care about them all. I really just care about items from a few select sources, but without a way to filter out the noise it's useless.
I'm not sure if that use-case would be very common for your app, although there's times when I make a popular FB post that I tend to ignore the notifications once they get past about 10.
1. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-reader-noti...
One feature that I can see possibly being valuable here is the ability to filer, prioritize, or otherwise throttle the notifications. An example would be my usage of Google Reader; there's a Chrome app[1] that shows notifications for new items, but I haven't been under 1000 new items in years ("1000+" is as high as it tracks). Yes, I have many feeds I need to prune out, but even then, I may get upwards of 100 new ite…
Not sure how this would work, but if I want notifications from everywhere, this would need to include IRC chat when people ping me with my name.
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This is certainly one option and we're still thinking. Our main goal is to make cool stuff that people love, and then we'll focus on monetization. :-)
That's the only way to go about it, IMO. It seems that in today's world, too many companies get a hair-brained idea from some executive that thinks they've got it all figured out, spend 100's of thousands building it, and millions to market it... only to discover that nobody actually likes it and/or will ever use it. I don't want to name names (as I'm not looking to start a flamewar), but off the top-of-my-head I can…