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I'm considering adding emails to notifo. It's on the todo list, but not high priorty right now.
Why not ? Email allows you to reach everybody that is online somehow, the iphone only allows you to reach a small subset of those.
Why is this better than http://notify.io/ ? Notifyio has been around longer and has a better support for people who don't use iPhones. Plus it's open source... Plus, I am really suspicious of the whole the names only differ by one letter thing...
The name difference is innocuous. The main reason for "notifo" was that the .com was available, honestly.
Why not notify people through Twitter? From Twitter I can get alerts to a regular mobile, not to mention to a Twitter client.
Is this IPhone only? Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone(not to mention, not in the USA).
That's a neat feature, but it may conflict with 'noprocrast', in that it will drive you mad if you can see that there are replies but you can't read them :) Why 'notifo', why not simply an email address ? That's universal instead of a service that only works with the ipbone.
Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
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Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
Actually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
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Actually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
Aren't you forgetting Scribd for PDFs?
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Because email can't make YC millions of dollars if it gets popular and makes a big exit.
Actually I wouldn't have integrated Notifo into HN if I didn't think it deserved it on its own merits. HN is a labor of love for me; I wouldn't integrate random stuff into it just because founders asked me to. Out of 172 companies we've funded, I've only integrated 2 functionally into HN: Clickpass and Notifo, both because I thought they were useful to users.
Is this IPhone only? Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone(not to mention, not in the USA).
Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)
I occasionally read HN on my G1, but doing much of any sort of reading or replying on a phone is a half-assed experience.
I'd much prefer to get E-mail (which, surprise! I can read on my phone if I so choose) or perhaps an RSS feed (which, again, I can read on my phone, if I so choose).
About the only reason I can see for making such things an "app" of some kind is to restrict how the user can use it and hack the results.