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Targetting Whatsapp and ping (chat) is a clever hack. A lot of my friends use it as a free alternative to texting, and i'll be sure to tell them to start using

by kilian 16y ago

Targetting Whatsapp and ping (chat) is a clever hack. A lot of my friends use it as a free alternative to texting, and i'll be sure to tell them to start using Notifo for that...As soon as it displays them as easily as whatapp does.* I've found sending a message to twitter to be completely unintuitive though. I had to send something to 'twitter', typing it out without any sort of hint that I was doing it correctly. Then minutes later, I get a Notifo message that it tweeted. Which I just did myself, via the same device. *it reads your phone's addressbook and displays all contacts that also have whatsapp, probably based on telephone number

PStamatiou 16y ago
> phone's addressbook and displays all contacts that also have whatsapp, probably based on telephone number We've been chatting internally about such an onboarding process. > I've found sending a message to twitter to be completely unintuitive though It's more of a proof-of-concept for anyone to built bots. We'll be updating the API documentation for that and opening the doors. We know that the twitter bot implementation definitely hacky and not quite sure why anyone would use it over a full-blown twitter client. Other proof-of-concept bots: dicebot (send "help" or hi), notifo (send "temp sf" or help), jill (not run by us, not sure if still up), et cetera Thanks for the feedback!
- kilian 16y ago
  > not quite sure why anyone would use it over a full-blown twitter client. I use notifo + push.ly to receive message when someone mentions me. As I have a 3G, switching over to the twitter app is slow and cumbersome, so replying-in-notifo is a good usecase :)
  - PStamatiou 16y ago
    Well there ya go. ;) We enabled URL schemes in this version so that means we can add a "Notifo" app addition to Push.ly if someone wants to use that as their primary so when they tap a pushly notification it can switch to the convo tab and make a new msg with the twitter bot/msg already filled out ready for reply P.S. - I got notifo'd of your reply, both on my iphone and OS X with our desktop app haha

by kilian 16y ago

PStamatiou 16y ago

> phone's addressbook and displays all contacts that also have whatsapp, probably based on telephone number We've been chatting internally about such an onboarding process. > I've found sending a message to twitter to be completely unintuitive though It's more of a proof-of-concept for anyone to built bots. We'll be updating the API documentation for that and opening the doors. We know that the twitter bot implementation definitely hacky and not quite sure why anyone would use it over a full-blown twitter client. Other proof-of-concept bots: dicebot (send "help" or hi), notifo (send "temp sf" or help), jill (not run by us, not sure if still up), et cetera Thanks for the feedback!

kilian 16y ago
> not quite sure why anyone would use it over a full-blown twitter client. I use notifo + push.ly to receive message when someone mentions me. As I have a 3G, switching over to the twitter app is slow and cumbersome, so replying-in-notifo is a good usecase :)
- PStamatiou 16y ago
  Well there ya go. ;) We enabled URL schemes in this version so that means we can add a "Notifo" app addition to Push.ly if someone wants to use that as their primary so when they tap a pushly notification it can switch to the convo tab and make a new msg with the twitter bot/msg already filled out ready for reply P.S. - I got notifo'd of your reply, both on my iphone and OS X with our desktop app haha