Show HN: Hooks Data API – Realtime Data about Thousands of Topics Over Webhooks

[krammer]

Hi HN!

We are the makers of Hooks App (gethooksapp.com), and for a long time we have been creating content on notifications for hundreds of thousands of users. Now we are opening our data so developers can do whatever they want with the it.

We are really excited to hear what do you can do with the API.

Feel free to ask anything!

[NationOfJoe]

FYI in the "Channels" section under twitter your have the same description as for pintrest.

[earlyriser]

How is this different from Superfeedr? What will be your pricing?

[koolba]

This looks nifty. On the outbound side having a SNS topic publish option (with customer supplied AWS access and secret key) would likely be popular with the serverless crowd.

[ortuman]

Cool. We're also planning integration with push notifications services, including SNS.

[jsonne]

Any plans to integrate with advertising APIs so you can run/edit campaigns based on this data? Seems to be potentially a really useful mechanism especially around concurrently running ads with when commercials are running etc?

[ortuman]

Sure! Future integrations with advertising APIs is in our roadmap.

[andreygrehov]

This one looks amazing. I had a side-project, Terraflow, with the exact same goals. The project is on the graveyard now, but the fact there is a market for things like that makes me feel great. At least the idea was good :)

[krammer]

Would love to hear more about Terraflow! Drop me a line at jose at gethooksapp.com :)

[assafmo]

I'll definitely test this with Twitter!

I'm using IFTTT to send webhooks from twitter and the delay can get up to 15 minutes. I also tested Microsoft Flow and the delay was bigger than IFTTT.

[metaodi]

Is it possible to add new data? Like connecting an Open Data portal or something similar and get notified if new data is added/updated?

[krammer]

We have not implemented yet the tool for you to add the data "manually" (we have an endpoint to publish new content to a topic, but that's not what you need). BUT, we can add the data, and the Open Data portals are a great source we have not explore. Do you have any specific data right now in mind? Would love to discuss this use case.

[namespace]

Kudos on data launch! I have been using Hooks app for free for more than a year. How do you get your revenue?

[krammer]

Thanks!

For the data api we plan to stay free for a while and then charge new users with a low per subscrition fee to indie devs and have a plan for big data consumers.

Offtopic: how much would you have payed for the Hooks app? Just from the top of your mind.

[elyase]

Cool project. Are you also going to allow access to the historical data?

[krammer]

Thanks! Yes, we are :). What use case do you have in mind?

[krammer]

We have been hunted on PH :)

https://www.producthunt.com/posts/hooks-data

Feel free to comment there too.

[myaso]

Really cool! Looks like some interesting stuff can be done with this. So I get to passively pick up updates from your channels? I wish there was more stuff like this instead of having the process be powered by people using a app.

[krammer]

Thanks! You can actually search for the channels to subscribe using our API, and we are working now on standardizing that API so you can know what to expect there. Yes, the point is that once you subscribe you KNOW that we will tell you if something happens and we will give you the needed data to do something with it.

What use cases do you have in mind?