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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).

jacquesm 17y ago
> Is this IPhone only? Yep. > Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone. My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.
- jazzychad 17y ago
  It's iPhone only for now. Support for Android is in the very near future and BlackBerry right after that. This is explained on the notifo website.
  - davi 17y ago
    I don't have a smartphone. I would sign up for this service if it would send me email when someone responded to my posts on HN.
    - jazzychad 17y ago
      I'm considering adding emails to notifo. It's on the todo list, but not high priorty right now.
      - jacquesm 17y ago
        Why not ? Email allows you to reach everybody that is online somehow, the iphone only allows you to reach a small subset of those.
        rue 17y ago
        No money in it?
        ericd 17y ago
        Emails can include ads...
        cubicle67 17y ago
        because once you start using email, you no longer need notifo?
      - mstevens 17y ago
        Please support this.
pbiggar 17y ago
I believe android and blackberry are coming (according to the techcrunch article).
abi 17y ago
Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)
- jamesbritt 17y ago
  Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications. 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.
  - derefr 17y ago
    When I'm at home, I can just refresh the /threads page in the background. iPhones don't have a "background" to refresh such things in, so this is a useful niche. I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)

jacquesm 17y ago

> Is this IPhone only? Yep. > Have pity on the rest of us unwashed types not cool enough to own an IPhone. My thoughts exactly. There are a lot of mobiles out there that are not iphones, in spite of the iphones popularity.

jazzychad 17y ago
It's iPhone only for now. Support for Android is in the very near future and BlackBerry right after that. This is explained on the notifo website.
- davi 17y ago
  I don't have a smartphone. I would sign up for this service if it would send me email when someone responded to my posts on HN.
  - jazzychad 17y ago
    I'm considering adding emails to notifo. It's on the todo list, but not high priorty right now.
    - jacquesm 17y ago
      Why not ? Email allows you to reach everybody that is online somehow, the iphone only allows you to reach a small subset of those.
      - rue 17y ago
        No money in it?
        ericd 17y ago
        Emails can include ads...
      - cubicle67 17y ago
        because once you start using email, you no longer need notifo?
    - mstevens 17y ago
      Please support this.

pbiggar 17y ago

I believe android and blackberry are coming (according to the techcrunch article).

abi 17y ago

Check out notify.io (open source and has support for OSX, Windows, Ubuntu and Android)

jamesbritt 17y ago
Thank you. My phone is the last place I want to get such notifications. 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.
- derefr 17y ago
  When I'm at home, I can just refresh the /threads page in the background. iPhones don't have a "background" to refresh such things in, so this is a useful niche. I admit, though: an RSS -> iPhone push notification gateway would be more useful. (Though as far as I've seen, none of the iPhone RSS clients want to support Push, because none of their servers could handle the load. It would really just need to be a part of PubSubHubbub infrastructure.)