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Show HN: Receive desktop notifications from your web apps

by adamcooke on 10/23/12, 12:09 PM with 11 comments

• by damncabbage on 10/23/12, 12:20 PM

  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/

• by Zak on 10/23/12, 1:04 PM

  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.

• by bittersweet on 10/23/12, 12:28 PM

  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?

• by rbrcurtis on 10/23/12, 12:56 PM

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