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Notifo (YC W10) now lets you send notifications to yourself

42 points by jazzychad 17y ago

drewcrawford 17y ago
I have a command-line utility I was using to send myself push notifications from the command-line. So to do a compile I would type make; phone And poof! Instant push notification when it's done. Or I could ifconfig | grep ether | phone No more need to write down those pesky ether addresses to walk across the office and diagnose something. I was considering trying to build a product around it, but decided the market was too small. I considered OSSing it, but the barrier to setting up a push server, etc., was too high for it to be useful. Now I will retarget my little command-line script to target Notifo over the weekend. Watch this space: http://github.com/drewcrawford/Phone-Pipe http://github.com/drewcrawford/Phone-Pipe
- jazzychad 17y ago
  Awesome, can't wait to see it and try it out. Ping me when it's ready, and I'll add a link to the site/blog.
- notnoop 17y ago
  I published my notifo notification code at http://gist.github.com/377357 http://gist.github.com/377357 .
Splines 17y ago
Haha.. I'm guessing so many people were using Notifo for this purpose they decided to roll it in as a feature. Thank you Notifo :). I like your UI, but having a dummy service account to send myself messages was slightly annoying.
- jazzychad 17y ago
  Yes, many people were doing this, and others complained it was too much of a hassle. So, we took the feedback and made it easier for everyone involved :)
maxklein 17y ago
I will integrate this into my company panel such that when there is a new sales report available, it does this. Notifo remains my favorite YC service. Unpretentious and useful.
auston 17y ago
Thanks!! Already up & running: http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992 http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992
- auston 17y ago
  Update with a php script (from me): https://gist.github.com/ff424b2ace303cd53d04 https://gist.github.com/ff424b2ace303cd53d04 & a PHP library (from jazzychad): http://github.com/phrygianlabs/Notifo-API-Libraries/blob/master/php/Notifo_API.php http://github.com/phrygianlabs/Notifo-API-Libraries/blob/mas...
pg 17y ago
I love how Chad engages with users and keeps pushing out new features. Every startup should do this.
seltzered 17y ago
so, does this basically serve as a free replacement to prowl?
- pclark 17y ago
  prowl is free?
alanh 17y ago
Unrequested UX tip, Chad/Notifo: I was prompted to send myself a message before installing your app on my device or setting any notification preferences? (Does it default to sign-up email? If so, that was not explicit.) Looks pretty cool so far!
mstevens 17y ago
But can we have email notifications yet?
ErrantX 17y ago
I put together a quick wordpress plugin: http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo Just chuck the php file into a plugins/notifo folder then activate it.
- ErrantX 17y ago
  in WP Plugins as well: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-notifo http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-notifo

42 points by jazzychad 17y ago

I have a command-line utility I was using to send myself push notifications from the command-line. So to do a compile I would type make; phone And poof! Instant push notification when it's done. Or I could ifconfig | grep ether | phone No more need to write down those pesky ether addresses to walk across the office and diagnose something. I was considering trying to build a product around it, but decided the market was too small. I considered OSSing it, but the barrier to setting up a push server, etc., was too high for it to be useful. Now I will retarget my little command-line script to target Notifo over the weekend. Watch this space: http://github.com/drewcrawford/Phone-Pipe http://github.com/drewcrawford/Phone-Pipe

jazzychad 17y ago
Awesome, can't wait to see it and try it out. Ping me when it's ready, and I'll add a link to the site/blog.
notnoop 17y ago
I published my notifo notification code at http://gist.github.com/377357 http://gist.github.com/377357 .

Splines 17y ago

Haha.. I'm guessing so many people were using Notifo for this purpose they decided to roll it in as a feature. Thank you Notifo :). I like your UI, but having a dummy service account to send myself messages was slightly annoying.

jazzychad 17y ago
Yes, many people were doing this, and others complained it was too much of a hassle. So, we took the feedback and made it easier for everyone involved :)

maxklein 17y ago

I will integrate this into my company panel such that when there is a new sales report available, it does this. Notifo remains my favorite YC service. Unpretentious and useful.

auston 17y ago

Thanks!! Already up & running: http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992 http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992

auston 17y ago
Update with a php script (from me): https://gist.github.com/ff424b2ace303cd53d04 https://gist.github.com/ff424b2ace303cd53d04 & a PHP library (from jazzychad): http://github.com/phrygianlabs/Notifo-API-Libraries/blob/master/php/Notifo_API.php http://github.com/phrygianlabs/Notifo-API-Libraries/blob/mas...

pg 17y ago

I love how Chad engages with users and keeps pushing out new features. Every startup should do this.

seltzered 17y ago

so, does this basically serve as a free replacement to prowl?

pclark 17y ago
prowl is free?

alanh 17y ago

Unrequested UX tip, Chad/Notifo: I was prompted to send myself a message before installing your app on my device or setting any notification preferences? (Does it default to sign-up email? If so, that was not explicit.) Looks pretty cool so far!

mstevens 17y ago

But can we have email notifications yet?

ErrantX 17y ago

I put together a quick wordpress plugin: http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo Just chuck the php file into a plugins/notifo folder then activate it.

ErrantX 17y ago
in WP Plugins as well: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-notifo http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-notifo