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Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #29

This looks really cool, but one thing I'd love to see/know before I install. Do you send me a notification whenever something happens, or can you pool them together and only interrupt me every few hours? Hint: I want the latter.

Thanks! You can turn off desktop notifications and just check when you feel like being interrupted. The pooling together is something we're working on down the road.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #29

This looks really cool, but one thing I'd love to see/know before I install. Do you send me a notification whenever something happens, or can you pool them together and only interrupt me every few hours? Hint: I want the latter.

Right now we send a notification as soon as it happens. We're looking at implementing a pause mode, so you wouldn't get interrupted by notifications when you need to focus.

Pooling notifications is interesting, we'll definitely be looking at that in the future!

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #30

Why Chrome only? This looks like something that could work just as well on Firefox

Yup, we built Chime for Chrome just to get the product out in the hands of our users. We've realized the response for Firefox/Safari is overwhelming so we'll be looking into support for those browsers as well.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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I read that as "Crime" for a moment, thought it would be some kind of real-time notification centre for when a crime is happening near you. I suppose police radios are encrypted these days, otherwise it could be interesting to recognize location from the calls, and show a pin on google map say: "bank robbery in progress 2.1 miles north of you; adam-4 responding". Then you can also add a social element: like foodspotting... but for criminals.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #35

I read that as "Crime" for a moment, thought it would be some kind of real-time notification centre for when a crime is happening near you. I suppose police radios are encrypted these days, otherwise it could be interesting to recognize location from the calls, and show a pin on google map say: "bank robbery in progress 2.1 miles north of you; adam-4 responding". Then you can also add a social element: like foodspott…

Hmm.. foodspotting for criminals. I like it. Do they get OpenTable integration? haha.

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #28

Great work. Really love the well refined interface. Not that I care about it much, but as a feedback, I am not able to get LinkedIn to work.

Thanks! Can you send us an email at support@chimeapp.com describing the issue that you're having. Are you logged-in to LinkedIn?

I am logged in, and I tried a browser restart, and a logoff-login as well, to no avail

Re: Show HN: Chime - A Notification Center for the Web

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post #2

Just launched 5 days ago! Over 100k notifications served. We're completely client side, so there are no privacy concerns.

Just curious: if there is no server-side stuff how would you know you have served over 100k notifications?

Only Google Analytics :-)
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