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Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

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Re: Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

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Post by jawns »

There are tons of notification services out there, but most of them focus on one particular niche (such as stock prices, social mentions, monitoring news sites, etc.)

On the one hand, I like how broad this is. It purports to handle a bunch of different types of events, and all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English.

On the other hand, I'm skeptical about how well a service can execute when it has to handle such a broad range of alert types.

I've written a lot of notification-type stuff (e.g. monitor a Twitter feed for when my book titles are mentioned, monitor a bank account for unusual activity, monitor a blog without an RSS feed for new posts), and it's definitely not a one-size-fits-all type of service. If GetNotified has to write new code for each monitoring request, I would imagine the subscriptions would have to run for a good long while before they make a profit.

P.S.: A little free copy editing help: There's a typo in "If you are in doubt, just submit the request and will let you know if it can be done or not."

Re: Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

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Post by smailq »

jawns wrote: post #3

There are tons of notification services out there, but most of them focus on one particular niche (such as stock prices, social mentions, monitoring news sites, etc.) On the one hand, I like how broad this is. It purports to handle a bunch of different types of events, and all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English. On the other hand, I'm skeptical about how well a service can execute when it has t…

Few ways we handle the notifications :

1. Find existing service that handles the job - integrate it, or just let the user know, or subscribe to it on behalf of the user.

2. Write code - automate it, script it if possible

3. Virtual assistance - let our VAs handle the monitoring if there is no other way

Hope this answers :)

Thanks for the fix!

Re: Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

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Post by ggypro »

ThomPete wrote: post #6

Love this. Submitted "Notify me when someone in the open source community is looking for design help" Need this for finding open source projects to weekendhackers newsletter.

I agree with you, this is pretty nice idea. not just a simple reminder, but an " idea " reminder.

Re: Show HN: GetNotified – describe an event and get alerted when it happens

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Post by rckclmbr »

free2rhyme214 wrote: post #8

Is this an MVP or does it actually work automatically? I noticed the part where it says it has to be reviewed by a human and then I thought it would be way easier to get notified by text instead of email. Boom! Feature request ha!

Honestly is looks like someone watched the How To Start A Startup video yesterday, saw how they made a one-pager in an hour to validate the idea, and just ran with it. So my guess is they're looking for how people would want to use it anyway.
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