Notifo (YC W10) now lets you send notifications to yourself

http://blog.notifo.com/send-notifications-with-your-user-account

by jazzychad • 16 years ago

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I have a command-line utility I was using to send myself push notifications from the command-line. So to do a compile I would type

  make; phone

And poof! Instant push notification when it's done. Or I could

  ifconfig | grep ether | phone

No more need to write down those pesky ether addresses to walk across the office and diagnose something.

I was considering trying to build a product around it, but decided the market was too small. I considered OSSing it, but the barrier to setting up a push server, etc., was too high for it to be useful.

Now I will retarget my little command-line script to target Notifo over the weekend. Watch this space: http://github.com/drewcrawford/Phone-Pipe

jazzychad2• 16 years ago

Awesome, can't wait to see it and try it out. Ping me when it's ready, and I'll add a link to the site/blog.

notnoop• 16 years ago

I published my notifo notification code at http://gist.github.com/377357 .

Splines• 16 years ago

Haha.. I'm guessing so many people were using Notifo for this purpose they decided to roll it in as a feature.

Thank you Notifo :). I like your UI, but having a dummy service account to send myself messages was slightly annoying.

jazzychad2• 16 years ago

Yes, many people were doing this, and others complained it was too much of a hassle. So, we took the feedback and made it easier for everyone involved :)

maxklein• 16 years ago

I will integrate this into my company panel such that when there is a new sales report available, it does this.

Notifo remains my favorite YC service. Unpretentious and useful.

auston2• 16 years ago

Thanks!! Already up & running: http://twitter.com/bunsen/status/12726052992

auston2• 16 years ago

Update with a php script (from me): https://gist.github.com/ff424b2ace303cd53d04

& a PHP library (from jazzychad): http://github.com/phrygianlabs/Notifo-API-Libraries/blob/mas...

pg• 16 years ago

I love how Chad engages with users and keeps pushing out new features. Every startup should do this.

seltzered• 16 years ago

so, does this basically serve as a free replacement to prowl?

pclark• 16 years ago

prowl is free?

alanh• 16 years ago

Unrequested UX tip, Chad/Notifo: I was prompted to send myself a message before installing your app on my device or setting any notification preferences? (Does it default to sign-up email? If so, that was not explicit.)

Looks pretty cool so far!

mstevens• 16 years ago

But can we have email notifications yet?

ErrantX2• 16 years ago

I put together a quick wordpress plugin:

http://bitbucket.org/errant/wp-notifo

Just chuck the php file into a plugins/notifo folder then activate it.

ErrantX2• 16 years ago

in WP Plugins as well: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-notifo

Notifo (YC W10) now lets you send notifications to yourself

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