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Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications
- FreedomToCreate 11y agoThey should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.
- kozkozkoz 11y agoGood point, but on average our users get about 1-2 per day as you choose exactly what you want to receive.
- jsonne 11y agoEhh, I'm not sure. In reality I use it mostly for work etc.
- afarrell 11y agoI find my distractions are more an internal impulse to check things than an external perturbation by someone else. Having a tool that offloads that from my brain would be useful.
- espinchi 11y agoWhen I first used it, I got overexcited and configured way too many alerts. But I've been trimming it down heavily, and now a fair percentage of the pushes I get are relevant to me.
- hackercomplex 11y agoI have a feature request: I loved the idea at first glance but then I was appalled to discover that there's nowhere to register a callback URL for any of these events. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Webhook To me it just seems obvious that there should be an either/or option for SMS or HTTP especially since a metric shitton of people are already using slack and hipchat. The transmission costs for HTTP are way more cheap than SMS so it seems like it would be in you guy's interest to support webhooks in order to reduce outbound SMS costs. TLDR; HTTP is the new SMS
- jakejake 11y agoThis doesn't strike me as a developer tool (though it could obviously be used by developers). It's for consumers. I don't know of many consumers who want to receive notifications via webhook. If they did do webhooks then you could write one that sent out SMSs though - leave them to do the hard part while cutting them out of the loop! Also I think it's push notifications, not SMS.
- hackercomplex 11y agoThis kind of thinking reminds me of Twitter in the early days where one founder was trying to pigeonhole it into being for a particular use case. Twitter began it's life as an SMS play also if my memory serves me correctly. Really it's up to the startup.. do they want to try to eventually become the Internet's primary notification propagation channel or are the only interested in catering to a particular mobile phone use case ?
- kozkozkoz 11y agoHi, we are working on adding this to our API as webhooks, so you can use the content on your app. For now you can check this: https://dev.gethooksapp.com https://dev.gethooksapp.com
- finnn 11y agoWhy does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
- espinchi 11y agoWell it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
- finnn 11y agoThat is not true. [0] [1] [2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying. [0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notifications-on-the-open-web?hl=en https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif... [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API [2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush
- joshkpeterson 11y agoBut you need to have the page open in a browser on your phone, no?
- cynix 11y agoNone of these work natively on iOS.
- finnn 11y agoThis doesn't work on iOS? I thought it did. [0] claims it can do this on Chrome for iOS, or maybe by native you mean on Safari, which doesn't seem to support it... [0]: https://storage-cdn.realtime.co/chrome-push/index.html https://storage-cdn.realtime.co/chrome-push/index.html
- cynix 11y ago
- joshschreuder 11y agoNice work - looks like a cross between IFTTT and Pushbullet. What are your differentiating factors?
- rahimnathwani 11y agoI came here to ask the same thing, sort of. Pushover and Pushbullet both work with IFTTT, and IIRC used to be the only way to get IFTTT to send you mobile push notifications. However, now that IFTTT supports push notifications, why do you still need Pushover or Pushbullet?
- cellularmitosis 11y agoThis is the first I've heard of Pushbullet, and boy is their marketing frustrating. I just spent 5 minutes trying to answer the question "Is this a service which turns an HTTP POST into an iOS push notification?", only to be greeted with answers like "Bring together your devices, friends, and the things you care about". Argh.
- rahimnathwani 11y agoIn that case you'll like Pushover's home page: https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/ There's a sample curl command right there on the page. EDIT: Pushbullet's home page has a link to API docs, and it took 30 seconds to find this: https://docs.pushbullet.com/#create-push https://docs.pushbullet.com/#create-push
- SyneRyder 11y ago+1 for Pushover. I'd been using Slack for device notifications, but Pushover is much faster. I've had both running simultaneously and the Slack alerts would sometimes arrive minutes after Pushover.
- spoxaka 11y agoYou might also want to check out Boxcar.
- ngoel36 11y agoIs this better than Facebook's notify? (Which I actually love - relevant stuff waiting for me on my lock screen without any audio notifications)
- kozkozkoz 11y agoIt's different. On Facebook Notify you subscribe to a channel and then they decide what you get, very similar to rss feed. On Hooks you customize what you want to get exactly and where you want to get it from, like post with 200 points on HN so you get only the content you asked for.