by SimonDawlat on 11/25/14, 7:38 PM
Hello HN. Founder here. Happy to answer any questions.
In a nutshell: I was inspired to build this service after the AppGratis/Apple disagreement back in 2013 where most of the controversy revolved around our supposed "abuse of push notifications" (Guideline 5.6, in Apple's book).
What happened next made me realize how important notifications were going to be: it's the next interface for users, while developers rely on them entirely for growth and engagement. But until today there was no analytics service dedicated to this new medium, which is what we're trying to build with Batch Insights.
Hope you'll like it.
by simonw on 11/25/14, 8:42 PM
I don't understand what this does or how it works.
"Using a new proprietary indexing technology, Batch is on a mission to track all the push notifications in the world and make them available in a centralized and unified place."
Can you track push notifications that are being sent by other applications? If so, how do you do that? Are you running a bunch of Android and iOS devices, installing apps, subscribing to push notifications in them and then gathering data that way? Or do you have a library that developers have to include in their applications?
by yargevad on 11/25/14, 9:04 PM
Assuming your approach to gathering data is similar to the other guesses in this thread, your stats will be skewed for "pushers" who actually target their notifications, as opposed to sending a homogenous marketing blast. People who target their notifications (to a geoloc, or topic of interest for example) are going to be incorrectly represented here.
by matthieurouif on 11/25/14, 8:30 PM
by NicoPrincen on 11/25/14, 9:41 PM
This is great - we are building our notification strategy right now. What would your top benchmarks be? Like the three most polished experiences and strategies with notifications? (We're in digital content distribution fyi). Thanks!
by francis88 on 11/25/14, 8:37 PM
Looks interesting! I'd love to hear more about your ideal use case. Who can benefit from it? I browsed through the site and was left unsure of who exactly is going to use it. Any hints?
by spolu on 11/25/14, 7:24 PM
The story behind this project is awesome. Built by the team behind AppGratis which got huge and was then shut down by Apple. They're now back full steam with this project.
by julien_c on 11/25/14, 9:36 PM
Great vision and execution. I would love for their search field to be instant (ie. no return keypress required), would improve discoverability/serendipity.
by alexeichemenda on 11/25/14, 7:17 PM
Hey,
I've used the tool a bit and love how easy it is to pull data from a specific app to identify push notifications patterns.
by jackhulsom on 11/25/14, 11:11 PM
Is there any way for me to look for "All push notifications sent in the past month by App X on Android" for example ?
by matthieurouif on 11/25/14, 8:28 PM
Looks interesting. I would be curious to know how you guys track notifications? Did you have to jail break the iPhone?
by dwild on 11/25/14, 8:26 PM
Where do you get this information from?
by grimtrigger on 11/25/14, 8:13 PM
Very cool. Do you have any information about pushes other than the content of the push itself?
by hiroprot on 11/25/14, 9:11 PM
Are you using ANCS to capture the notifications?
by dang on 11/25/14, 8:28 PM
"Show HN" requires that there be something users can try out and use now. The website makes it seem like this hasn't launched yet, so we took Show HN out of the title. If that's wrong, we'll put it back.