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Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by krammer »

Hi HN!

We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it.

We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API.

Feel free to ask anything!

Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by ortuman »

jsonne wrote: post #2

Any plans to integrate with advertising APIs so you can run/edit campaigns based on this data? Seems to be potentially a really useful mechanism especially around concurrently running ads with when commercials are running etc?

Sure! Future integrations with advertising APIs is in our roadmap.

Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by ortuman »

koolba wrote: post #3

This looks nifty. On the outbound side having a SNS topic publish option (with customer supplied AWS access and secret key) would likely be popular with the serverless crowd.

Cool. We're also planning integration with push notifications services, including SNS.

Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by earlyriser »

krammer wrote: post #4

Hi HN! We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it. We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API. Feel free to ask anything!

How is this different from Superfeedr? What will be your pricing?

Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by krammer »

earlyriser wrote: post #7
krammer wrote: post #4

Hi HN! We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it. We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API. Feel free to ask anything!

How is this different from Superfeedr? What will be your pricing?

Hi! We have data about the topics that is delivered when it actually relevant, not only when the data is created. We can send you a webhook when, for example, when bitcoin reaches a price, or when a sports game ends. Superfeedr pushes you when an RSS feed has new content (that has a lot of value, we also have that) and over that a super cool real time search engine that can match articles from their RSS base (that's quite huge). We love superfeedr!

It will be free for a while and later a per subscription price is what sounds good for us.

Re: Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

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Post by krammer »

myaso wrote: post #8

Really cool! Looks like some interesting stuff can be done with this. So I get to passively pick up updates from your channels? I wish there was more stuff like this instead of having the process be powered by people using a app.

Thanks! You can actually search for the channels to subscribe using our API, and we are working now on standardizing that API so you can know what to expect there. Yes, the point is that once you subscribe you KNOW that we will tell you if something happens and we will give you the needed data to do something with it.

What use cases do you have in mind?

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