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there | 1 year ago | on: Ask HN: Website monitoring tool that will wake me up when site is down?

Pushover allows per-message sound settings, so you could configure just alerts from your monitoring to play a sound and send at priority 2 which will bypass your device's quiet settings and repeat to wake you up.

https://pushover.net/api#sounds

https://pushover.net/api#priority2

there | 2 years ago | on: /Uses: A list of /uses pages detailing developer setups, gear, software, configs

https://plan.cat/

there | 3 years ago | on: Subtext - A multi-user BBS server for classic macOS

Correct: https://jcs.org/2022/07/15/kludge#threading

there | 3 years ago | on: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

On Android, Pushover is able to (optionally) play notification sounds for high-priority messages through the alarm channel like an alarm app would, so it can bypass the device's mute switch.

there | 3 years ago | on: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST

That is correct. Pushover has been around for 10 years now and I get most of its financial support from Team subscriptions.

https://blog.pushover.net/posts/2022/3/ten

Any individual users wanting to support Pushover are welcome to join as a personal Team with 1 member :)

there | 3 years ago | on: Ergo – modern IRC server written in Go

Just FYI, Pushover has a Glances API so you can push data like that directly to an Apple Watch complication.

https://pushover.net/api/glances

there | 4 years ago | on: .plan

The non-user-generated content is returned in Catalan if your browser's language is set to it.

there | 5 years ago | on: Remembering Windows 3.1 themes and user empowerment

https://github.com/jcs/progman

there | 6 years ago | on: Apple AirPort Firmware Data Deletion Vulnerability

knowing the wireless network name and key is only worth anything if you know where that network is, and can actually go there and do something

The AP's MAC address would be the same, which you can just plug into https://find-wifi.mylnikov.org/

there | 7 years ago | on: Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

You can encrypt notifications that go through Google's FCM and Apple's APNS push notification servers. This is how Pushover works - each notification is encrypted with a device-specific key, sent through the notification servers as an encrypted blob, then the app on the device is woken up and receives the blob, decrypts it, and posts it as a normal notification.

there | 7 years ago | on: Gotify – a self-hosted push-notifications service

Just to clarify, Pushover is not a "paid service" in that you need to pay for a subscription. You only have to pay once to use it past the 7-day free trial.

there | 13 years ago | on: Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

I'd love it if a moderator would post something when they change a title so it's clear what happened and who did it, but it would probably generate a lot of useless meta threads debating the change (and of course, it would actually reveal who the moderators are).

there | 13 years ago | on: Apple, Google Just Killed Portable GPS Devices

The upcoming Maps update for Android will have offline support so you can pre-cache a selected area.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/6/6/3068113/google-maps-offline...

there | 13 years ago | on: Moderators of HN: please stop changing post titles

That is false. I've had titles of my own submissions changed by someone else, and as the submitter of the Light Table link replied in that thread, he or she did not change the title, either.

there | 13 years ago | on: Mac Pro gets half-assed “update”

The new ASUS Zenbook Prime (UX21A 11"/UX31A 13") models that were announced last month have similar specs to the new MBA (Ivy Bridge, up to 256Gb SSD, etc.) but are both available with 1920x1080 IPS screens. I had the original UX21 and sold it because the keyboard was not so great, but from the reviews of the new models, they have improved the keyboard and trackpad.

there | 13 years ago | on: Apple quietly announces new Mac Pros

And a new Airport Express that no longer plugs directly into the wall. https://www.apple.com/wifi/

there | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

Users would have to purchase the Pushover app. It sounds like you want https://parse.com/ which would be an SDK you can integrate into your app to get push notifications.

there | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

I don't really have much experience in the way of sales and marketing, but my integration efforts so far have just been to setup Pushover applications with icons ahead of time and then e-mail admins with the API key and some explanation so they don't have to do much work. I did the Github integration and Adium plugin myself to increase visibility.

I went with $3.99 because Prowl is $2.99 and Notify My Android is $3.99. I'm not convinced that a yearly service is worth the overhead and I personally wouldn't pay to use a notification app that had a yearly fee.

The bandwidth and server overhead for running such a service are pretty low and iOS/Android push notifications are free, so I'm not really worried about monthly costs for normal users outweighing the revenue the app brings in. Right now Pushover is running on one of my servers that does other things, so it's not even really costing anything tangible. If costs start to go up, I can always increase the price of the apps to slow growth (or increase revenue if it doesn't slow growth).

there | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

Most are sending alerts to themselves. While I've integrated it into Github and my Fitbit notifier to try to pick up users that just want to receive alerts, most are using it to generate their own alerts from network monitors, BitTorrent clients, IRC clients, etc.

I pinged the ifttt.com guys to ask about integration but haven't heard back yet. I'd like to do more integration with services that currently do e-mail notifications like http://hnnotify.com (I've already contacted them) to pick up more end-users.

there | 13 years ago | on: Ask HN: who started something in 2012 which is already profitable?

It's hard to work out accurate numbers because users can have such drastically different usage patterns. Some users have signed up with one device and have only received a few notifications, others have many devices registered and receive dozens of notifications daily from chat plugins.

The API is free, though applications are limited to a reasonable number of messages per month. That was put into place out of fear that a large company would use the app/service as a dirt-cheap platform to send large amounts of messages every day to its employees (like routing/dispatching directions, etc.) and burden the service. And rightly so, since shortly after launching, I got an e-mail from a large US company looking to use it in such a way (they ultimately decided not to use it). If such customers do come along, their API fees will cover them being on segmented servers.