Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
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Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#2They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#3They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
Good point, but on average our users get about 1-2 per day as you choose exactly what you want to receive.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#4They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
Ehh, I'm not sure. In reality I use it mostly for work etc.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#5I 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 cheap than SMS so it seems like it would be in you guy's interest to support webhooks in order to reduce outbound SMS costs.
TLDR; HTTP is the new SMS
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#6They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
I find my distractions are more an internal impulse to check things than an external perturbation by someone else. Having a tool that offloads that from my brain would be useful.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#7Why does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#8Why does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
Well it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#9They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
When I first used it, I got overexcited and configured way too many alerts. But I've been trimming it down heavily, and now a fair percentage of the pushes I get are relevant to me.
Re: Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
#10Why does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
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