Instapush: Instant notifications for things that matter

https://instapush.im

by benscarberry • 12 years ago

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Instant notifications for things that matter within your web app or service.

dz0ny• 12 years ago

Pushover && Pushbullet clone

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

I might disagree with you. that's more towards developers less towards consumers.

nacs2• 12 years ago

Erm 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• 12 years ago

Open Source? If not, count me out.

akerl_2• 12 years ago

After 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.

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

as 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

brycekahle• 12 years ago

Sending the secret in plaintext over HTTP. Yikes.

akerl_2• 12 years ago

Ah, my bad. I didn't notice the curl shown, since it's listed next to language implementations

wellboy• 12 years ago

AWesome, 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?

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

Yea, just make an HTTP request from your android app. as simple as that.

mat1911• 12 years ago

similar to http://getredalert.com

l0gicpath• 12 years ago

And similar to Snitch[1] except Snitch doesn't seem to have launched yet.

[1] http://trysnitch.com/

tokenizerrr• 12 years ago

Does this use Google Cloud Messaging for Android[1]?

[1] http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

Yes

madisp• 12 years ago

API is http instead of https and doesn't require signing the request body or parameters :(

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

you 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• 12 years ago

Typo on the homepage. "add the code after succesfull transaction" should be "add the code after a successful transaction"

benscarberry8• 12 years ago

Thanks! fixed

nwm• 12 years ago

Also, sensitive instead of sensetive.

AliDarwish• 12 years ago

This is super awesome!!

guptaneil• 12 years ago

For people looking to pull the same thing off on iOS, check out Prowl (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• 12 years ago

How does it make money?

aaronbasssett• 12 years ago

Their 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.

nacs2• 12 years ago

The 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?

Instapush: Instant notifications for things that matter

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