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Instapush: Instant notifications for things that matter
Instant notifications for things that matter within your web app or service.
- dz0ny 13y agoPushover && Pushbullet clone
- benscarberry 13y agoI might disagree with you. that's more towards developers less towards consumers.
- nacs 13y agoErm isn't your service just as, if not more more developer-centric than the other 2 services mentioned? Consumers don't really use HTTP APIs..
- atoponce 13y agoOpen Source? If not, count me out.
- akerl_ 13y agoAfter browsing the site, I'm left with 2 questions: What does this service offer that makes it more desirable than the whole crowd of other Notification-As-A-Service providers, and how do I make an API call to it? It doesn't look like there are API docs, so I would need to dissect one of their linked wrappers.
- benscarberry 13y agoas far as I understand. It's especially interesting for product/apps/services owners to follow up on transactions that they find important. And about API there's a raw CURL right there curl -X POST \ -H "x-instapush-appid: 529e45aa128773e72b8b4567" \ -H "x-instapush-appsecret: e5aaf9c65ce78d67718e68557e31ad66" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"event":"registeration", "trackers":{"email":"someone@somewhere.com","country":"US"}}' \ http://api.instapush.im/post http://api.instapush.im/post
- brycekahle 13y agoSending the secret in plaintext over HTTP. Yikes.
- akerl_ 13y agoAh, my bad. I didn't notice the curl shown, since it's listed next to language implementations
- benscarberry 13y agoand It's now over HTTPS
- wellboy 13y agoAWesome, awesome, awesome. Can you also support client-side support for the people that are using Parse? As in, write a few lines of code in my Android app that sends a push to me. Last question, why did you choose to launch on Android?
- benscarberry 13y agoYea, just make an HTTP request from your android app. as simple as that.
- mat1911 13y agosimilar to http://getredalert.com http://getredalert.com
- l0gicpath 13y agoAnd similar to Snitch[1] except Snitch doesn't seem to have launched yet. [1]: http://trysnitch.com/ http://trysnitch.com/
- tokenizerrr 13y agoDoes this use Google Cloud Messaging for Android[1]? [1]: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html
- benscarberry 13y agoYes
- madisp 13y agoAPI is http instead of https and doesn't require signing the request body or parameters :(
- benscarberry 13y agoyou are right about http. it should be https, I'll pass it on. But request is already authorized with headers? you can email them info@instapush.im and let them know how you'd love to do it, I'm sure they will listen.
- michaelmior 13y agoTypo on the homepage. "add the code after succesfull transaction" should be "add the code after a successful transaction"
- benscarberry 13y agoThanks! fixed
- nwm 13y agoAlso, sensitive instead of sensetive.
- benscarberry 13y agoThanks again clearly someone needs to be fired! lol
- AliDarwish 13y agoThis is super awesome!!
- guptaneil 13y agoFor people looking to pull the same thing off on iOS, check out Prowl (http://www.prowlapp.com http://www.prowlapp.com). It's designed to forward your mac's Growl notifications to your iPhone, but they also have an http endpoint you can use to trigger push notifications. I've been using it for the last 2 years to notify me of events on my server, just like Instapush.
- icebraining 13y agoHow does it make money?
- aaronbasssett 13y agoTheir python wrapper for their service is a complete mess. If it is a indicator as to the code quality of the rest of their product I would not depend on it for anything important.
- nacs 13y agoThe whole point of the service is to basically relay HTTP calls to push notifications but you only support 1 of the 2 main mobile platforms? Am I not seeing the iOS client or is this Android only? Also, no pricing page. Will this be a pay-only service after beta or freemium or free?