The landing page doesn't tell me what this does at all. I get that it does alerts that somehow get onto the apple watch, but nothing else.
"Discover our channels" --> what are channels?
Ah ok after watching the video I get a much better idea of how to use the app. I'm curious to know how many people actually click on the video to watch it. IMHO good direct copy on the landing page is worth more than a video hidden behind a click.
The NFL game feed is a combination of a couple of feeds. There's
http://www.nfl.com/liveupdate/scorestrip -- which will show you the events and IDs that are currently going active. Right now, in the off-season, it will undoubtedly be blank. You can then take those values and plug them into this one:
I don't remember the one for the NBA, as I've never used it, but I saw an article on reddit a few weeks ago about how to get the data from the NBA using their RSS feed, so I have a good faith belief that it exists.
Thanks for sharing this! The only thing I had found was stuff like SportsXML, etc. but it took me weeks to just get a demo data dump for a single game and the pricing was way too much to bite off.
This is just what I needed to filter the signal from the noise. Please add Github tracking for repositories that receive more than X stars in one day: https://github.com/trending?since=daily (and variations on this theme). I will be a long time user. Keep up the great work and integrate more services!
When I edit an alert template in my inbox, it doesn't currently update the table cell (at least for me), but if I click on the alert, I can see from the title that it has been updated. Additionally, you may want to consider separating the templates from the notification/alerts in the view somehow.. possibly a different menu
For a "roll your own" approach I use Pushover on iOS (I know people using PushBullet on Android) and then either use the Email->Push gateway and/or I have a simple bash script "push" that I can pass a subject and message so that I can very easily setup shells scripts to send me push notifications when they finish (great for long running processes that you might run in screen). All the time in a screen I will do something like:
I use ifttt + pushbullet for these kinds of tasks.
Pushbullet also has an api so you can directly push notifications to your device(s).
I wouldn't mind a clone of ifttt that let me customize my own channels.
The problem with these notification tools is that if something isn't already defined for you you're kind of sol. You can sort of hack it by making the thing-you-don't-have-a-channel-for output to a channel that is supported. E.g., if you want to be notified when your local library has a book in stock, you can get your library to email you, and then filter that in gmail, and have ifttt trigger on that email to pushbullet.
I've been using a huginn + pushbullet for this. It definitely lets you customize your channels (you can write your own in Ruby if you need full control).
I've played with Huginn before but never got it fully set up. I even started working on my own clone of it written in node.js with the idea that from the web interface you would be able to tweak the JS for each "trigger" and "action" or at a least extend them. Maybe I need to play with my own idea again or just give Huginn another shot.
Hi! What we do is to provide a lot of alerts that you can configure and that you can handle in same place. For example, you can create an alert that will notify you when your site is down, or when there's a new meetup in your town, when a music band comes to your city...
Thanks. I think it is solved now. We found the Presskit link was ok (its a dropbox folder). Anyway, if you need anything, just drop me a line at founders at gethooksapp.com
Is there a way to build completely custom alerts, ie something fired off by a script on the user's computer, through your app? If not, is there plans to add this functionality?
Hi. Not right now. We have an rss alert where you can put any rss you want, but I know, that's not enough. We will add a way to that soon, probably creating a custom endpoint per user or even a email gateway.
And I would like to be able to add some type of push notifications to it, and I know I could package the front end as a cordova app to accomplish this, but I have serious doubts about such an app making it through App Store approval processes for obvious reasons, so a third party notification app sounds like an obvious next best choice.
We've been secretly working on a much more industrial-scale version of this, with a focus on getting price updates for eCommerce products.
Basically you can register a product URL, select the price change event that matters to you, and we'll push it to you via our Push Notifications API.
Its been in the works for a while, but we have MASSIVE scale.
Our database is >60 million, and you can get price change push notifications on any of them.
Pretty useful if you're building your own shopping app and want the latest prices! It also helps, especially if you're trying to keep up with Amazon's pricing games.
I use pushbullet http://pushbullet.com/ it's similar in it use of "channels" to notify you of something but doesn't have as many I think. It's also (from my experience) a little buggy
Actually, we are using something standard (we didn't had much time for this, we'll make a custom one soon) http://gethooksapp.com/privacy_policy. You can see it at at apple store when going to download the app.
BTW, we are using cloudkit for users log in so we dont know anything personal about you, but yeah, you're right, we have to improve that.
Great question. I love ifttt too. We are focused only in notifications and sending relevant data to the user. In our opinion, this has many advantages (in that context), being the most important that our interfaces are made thinking just on this problem so we can make it more usable and also that we can hand-curate every alert and add new ones faster. IFTTT is more about automation.
"Discover our channels" --> what are channels?
Ah ok after watching the video I get a much better idea of how to use the app. I'm curious to know how many people actually click on the video to watch it. IMHO good direct copy on the landing page is worth more than a video hidden behind a click.