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https://notiapp.com/

by adamcooke • 14 years ago

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notiapp.com

damncabbage2• 14 years ago

Coming soon to a browser near you, the HTML5 Notification API:

http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/notifications/quick/ http://dangercove.github.com/html5-notifications/

adamcooke4• 14 years 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.

damncabbage2• 14 years ago

Nice! Thanks for pointing that out.

bittersweet2• 14 years 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?

adamcooke4• 14 years 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) :)

bittersweet2• 14 years ago

And are you poling the noti server? I'm wondering how realtime it is :-)

rbrcurtis• 14 years ago

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

adamcooke4• 14 years ago

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

Zak• 14 years 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.

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