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Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by adamcooke » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

rbrcurtis wrote: post #7

This looks really useful. Do you have plans to monetize it?

No immediate plans for this, no. We developed the app for use in our own apps (namely, http://sirportly.com) but thought we'd share the awesomeness :)

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by Zak » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

Cool concept, but even using Zapier, I can't find any of the things I'd actually like to be notified about.

To provide a couple easy examples, I want notifications for time-wasting sites like reddit and facebook so that I spend less time visiting those sites to check for notifications. In the case of facebook, I want to know about anything that triggers a notification, or about incoming messages. On reddit, I want to be notified about a comment reply, PM, mod mail or new modqueue item.

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by ecaroth » Tue, Oct 23, 2012, 4:26 PM UTC

adamcooke wrote: post #10

bittersweet wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)

We use a socket-based connection on the clients. Messages should be delivered in very near to real-time. There's no polling here ;)

is this mac only?

Re: Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

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Post by damncabbage » Wed, Oct 24, 2012, 12:40 AM UTC

adamcooke wrote: post #3

damncabbage wrote: post #2

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

That's cool, if you happen to have the web app open. With Noti, the app just runs all the time (out of the way) and lets you receive messages at any time.

Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.