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I like the idea of unified notifications, but ultimately you have the chicken-egg problem, and for that you need to find an entry point. I'm working on the same
by nchuhoai 15y ago
I like the idea of unified notifications, but ultimately you have the chicken-egg problem, and for that you need to find an entry point. I'm working on the same problem and whoever solves it, it will create some great value. Can't wait until notifications get detached from email.
- joering2 15y agoexcuse me, but what kind of chicken-egg does he have??IF someone needs notification pushed to their phone, they can use his simple web/app. There is no chicken/egg here...
- nchuhoai 15y agousers are not gonna download the app unless many services are using his api, and not many services are gonna use his api unless there is a big user base ... sounds like a prime example of chicken and egg
- DVassallo 15y agoThe way I see it is that non-mobile application owners can recommend their customers to install this app, rather than create and publish a new one just to listen for notifications. That's why I don't see the chicken-egg problem.
- jazzychad 15y agoThis is not as easy as it sounds (speaking from experience). The chicken-egg problem is huge in this type of service.
- joering2 15y agoexactly! pretty much everyone in "too expensive/too complicate/we don't want this know" wagon that still want to have some sort of presence on the mobile devices could still have it without any investment other than redirect to his site.
- nupark2 15y agoThis approach is exactly the opposite of what users want on mobile devices.
- FuzzyDunlop 15y agoAnd I wouldn't install another app to receive a third-party implementation of push notifications. If I install any app, I do not expect to have to download dependencies to make it function fully. To that end, this solution is useless. My outlook is simple: there are native implementations of push notifications on mobile devices. It may cost time and money to set them up, but please spend some time implementing them.
- huhtenberg 15y agoYup. I wonder if some sort of pledge system would work. Get users add themselves to the "I am interested" list and get publishers commit to integrating with the service once the list hits N users.
- malvim 15y agoI don't see why you're being downvoted. I failed to see what the chicken/egg problem was as well, it was not obvious to me. Maybe asking politely for clarification would be better than just denying whatever the parent said, but still... To the guys who responded to this explaining the problem: Thank you!