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Re: Ask HN: Review my app - Notification Service

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Post by f_sav »

Overall good idea, but I'd say: obviously I wouldn't use this for my regular feeds, only for some specific ones for which I want live notifications. So maybe some basic filtering options would be good (by keyword, by author...).

(Or maybe it's implied people would use existing services for filtering?)

Re: Ask HN: Review my app - Notification Service

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Post by f_sav »

Oh, and having tried it a bit with a twitter search feed, maybe you could have some options for formatting too (with replacements like %t for title, %u for url etc.).

(But of course both these suggestions break the simplicity of it, which has its appeal.)

EDIT: also, I'd add the basic instructions (STOP, START etc.) at the bottom of the front page.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app - Notification Service

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Post by olalonde »

kamme wrote: post #3

Great idea, but as I suggested on your website, you should have a favicon. It's part of the identity of a website. If you don't have it, it feels like something is missing.

I second. All my favorites are lined up under my URL bar and I don't have enough space to keep the website titles, I only keep the favicons.

Re: Ask HN: Review my app - Notification Service

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Post by denik »

daok wrote: post #9

Some questions: 1) How to unsubscribe? 2) I can sent RSS feed to account that is not mine? (Spam?) Those 2 questions can block some new user to try the service I think.

1) send STOP to the bot. More info here: http://www.rss.im/help or send HELP to the bot 2) that's what verification code is for. chatbot won't send notifications or even feed's url and title until the account is verified
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