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- hliyan 5y agoThe part that appealed to me the most: unlike other apps where you have to select from a list of integrations, you can literally craft a HTTP request like in Postman to get data from any API: https://getradar.co/docs/adding-data https://getradar.co/docs/adding-data
- vicke4 5y agoHow about the scriptable output? https://getradar.co/docs/customizing-value https://getradar.co/docs/customizing-value ;)
- onion2k 5y agoURL: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/onion2k.json https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/onion2k.json Path: data.karma Now it's useful!
- vicke4 5y agoWill add the Hackernews 1-click installer to check karma points ;)
- vicke4 5y agoAdded a 1-click installer to check HN karma points.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y agoHey Vignesh, Consider adding facility for invoking system notifications. People were looking for such a solution on my problem validation platform[1]. Congratulations on the launch, I've been following your development since you announced it couple of months back. Couple of other quick suggestions, Linux KDE: Panel gets struck to the top right and cannot be moved elsewhere. This interferes with other items there. Mac screenshots on your site shows different panel placement. The ability to move the panel to desired location could be ideal. [1]https://needgap.com/problems/144-on-demand-hacker-news-notification-hackernews-notification https://needgap.com/problems/144-on-demand-hacker-news-notif...
- vicke4 5y agoThanks! Sure, I'll look into the panel placement issue.
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- m3kw9 5y agoIt’s a nice utility but I feel it is another activity that will further sap our focus. As if social media hasn’t done enough damage by utilizing “easy” to get our attention.
- vicke4 5y agoYeah. But, I felt this is better than opening multiple browser tabs and losing focus. So, I built this.
- edoceo 5y agoMe too! I did my fix with a new-tab-page. So I see all that glance-able stuff frequently
- vicke4 5y agoWould love to hear more about your fix.
- edoceo 5y agoOk. It's a new tab extension for FF or Chrome. Put all my favourite (read: work sites) on huge buttons at the top - so two clicks to CorpSlack (and like a dozen other sites. And below is these Social widgets, little JS tools showing me neat things from Reddit, Twitter, etc and then I put a textarea in there too, so I can quickly Ctrl+N and write a note (in local storage) extensions are super easy, and easy to extend too (for a cider)
- stevenicr 5y agoreminds me of pageflakes/netvibes/my.yahoo days -when rss was prevalent and super useful.
- m3kw9 5y agoIs a good util by the looks of it, it was a backhanded compliment
- cyberbuff 5y agoBitbar also does a decent job on Macos
- ilogik 5y agobirbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar https://github.com/matryer/xbar
- girishso 5y agoI've switched to SwiftBar currently. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar
- Hnrobert42 5y agoWhy did you switch? I use xbar to run a script every second for the existence of a file, and I noticed xbar using a lot of resources.
- girishso 5y agoAfter moving the icon around to my fav place, xbar didn't retain the position on menu bar after restart.
- sails 5y agoBitbar/xbar is great because it isn’t limited to just calling an API. You can run a .py or .sh and print the results, enabling more complex workflows and displays. I’ve build some pretty niche tools using it, mostly related to local weather
- agustif 5y agoRaycast does it as a spotlight replacement. I contributed a minor update to the Gitlab scripts. Can recommend
- rognjen 5y agoUnfortunately the things that I keep checking don't have an API. So I've been looking for something like this that scrapes - and that can detect if it's a login page and log me in. I realize that it's unlikely that I'll ever find it but I don't have the time to make it myself atm.
- leshokunin 5y agoBased on the photo this isn’t in the menu bar. It’s something I can see in a menu that I can get to from the menu bar.
- Hnrobert42 5y agoWhat is the minimum refresh interval for auto-refresh?
- vicke4 5y agoIt's 1 minute.
- seaucre 5y agoTrying to install the cryptocurrency extension, but it's not working for me. Opening the XDG link from Chrome doesn't affect Radar. Running Ubuntu 18.04.
- vicke4 5y agoThanks! I will check it out. Please get in touch using the support link in the landing page so that, I can let you know once I fix the issue.
- franky47 5y agoNeat idea! If the author is checking the comments, videos don't work on Firefox Android (they do on Chrome Android).
- vicke4 5y agoThanks! I will check the issue.
- neom 5y agoHow much are you thinking in terms of price? I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD.
- canada_dry 5y ago> I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD I'd argue that seems grossly optimistic for most users. Considering that many useful tools are free and most people balk at paying $6.99 for an app. How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.
- vicke4 5y ago> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited. Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?
- neom 5y agoI would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.
- KMnO4 5y agoI think you would be the exception. In fact, you may the only person I’ve ever heard express this preference.
- parsecs 5y agoI second this. Most people I know, including myself, would much rather have one time purchase.
- canada_dry 5y ago
- iillexial 5y agoThe site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source maintainers.". Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?
- vicke4 5y agoSure. Without open-source projects, I would not have been able to build Radar. So, I wanted to give something back for the incredible work open-source maintainers are doing out there. Hence, the statement. You will find it on the pricing page when Radar comes out of beta. The only thing I'm confused about is what kind of criteria I have to set before giving a free license to the person who wants to claim the offer? I'd appreciate it much if any of you guys can help set the criteria.
- poniko 5y agoLove it, especially the no account part.
- sebringj 5y agoThis is a great idea but just so developers know, you can do some great stuff with google sheets, I made one with google sheets and the built-in request object via google sheet scripting to do REST requests for data and found that to be super useful. You can then tie it in to calculations and totals etc. using spreadsheet functionality...but this is nice for a quick summary with little effort.
- plasma 5y agoLike the local data approach, but was surprised to read for at least the Google Analytics option your OAuth token is routed through Radar services (even if it’s use is then local), which feels a bit of a bummer when the effort was otherwise there to be all local.
- vicke4 5y agoI can understand your concern. But, I need to comply with Google APIs Terms of Service. https://developers.google.com/terms#b_confidential_matters https://developers.google.com/terms#b_confidential_matters > You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be embedded in open source projects
- plasma 5y agoThat’s a fair point, I forgot you had to use a token on your end too to make the flow work; thanks for your reply.