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Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

11 points by adamcooke 14y ago

damncabbage 14y ago
Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/
- adamcooke 14y ago
  That's cool, if you happen to have the web app open. With Noti, the app just runs all the time (out of the way) and lets you receive messages at any time.
  - damncabbage 14y ago
    Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.
bittersweet 14y ago
Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?
- adamcooke 14y ago
  On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)
  - bittersweet 14y ago
    And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)
    - adamcooke 14y ago
      We use a socket-based connection on the clients. Messages should be delivered in very near to real-time. There's no polling here ;)
      - ecaroth 14y ago
        is this mac only?
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rbrcurtis 14y ago
This looks really useful. Do you have plans to monetize it?
- adamcooke 14y ago
  No immediate plans for this, no. We developed the app for use in our own apps (namely, http://sirportly.com http://sirportly.com) but thought we'd share the awesomeness :)
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Zak 14y ago
Cool concept, but even using Zapier, I can't find any of the things I'd actually like to be notified about. To provide a couple easy examples, I want notifications for time-wasting sites like reddit and facebook so that I spend less time visiting those sites to check for notifications. In the case of facebook, I want to know about anything that triggers a notification, or about incoming messages. On reddit, I want to be notified about a comment reply, PM, mod mail or new modqueue item.

11 points by adamcooke 14y ago

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API: http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

adamcooke 14y ago
That's cool, if you happen to have the web app open. With Noti, the app just runs all the time (out of the way) and lets you receive messages at any time.
- damncabbage 14y ago
  Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.

bittersweet 14y ago

Interesting, could you shed some light on the tech behind this? For example, does this use a custom solution to display notifications or Growl / ML notifications?

adamcooke 14y ago
On Mountain Lion, we use the Notification Centre by default although you can opt to use Growl if you would prefer. In Lion, only Growl is available (obviously) :)
- bittersweet 14y ago
  And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)
  - adamcooke 14y ago
    We use a socket-based connection on the clients. Messages should be delivered in very near to real-time. There's no polling here ;)
    - ecaroth 14y ago
      is this mac only?
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rbrcurtis 14y ago

This looks really useful. Do you have plans to monetize it?

adamcooke 14y ago
No immediate plans for this, no. We developed the app for use in our own apps (namely, http://sirportly.com http://sirportly.com) but thought we'd share the awesomeness :)

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Zak 14y ago

Cool concept, but even using Zapier, I can't find any of the things I'd actually like to be notified about. To provide a couple easy examples, I want notifications for time-wasting sites like reddit and facebook so that I spend less time visiting those sites to check for notifications. In the case of facebook, I want to know about anything that triggers a notification, or about incoming messages. On reddit, I want to be notified about a comment reply, PM, mod mail or new modqueue item.