[Web Hooks] Solving realtime ... anybody want a peek?

[Jeff Lindsay]

While webhooks have a particular role at the exclusion of others (for example, they are silly to think of being used to do realtime to the browser or desktop client), they do work in tandem with socket-like persistent connections, mostly useful for getting to the desktop, or getting through firewalls, etc. Also, with really high throughput it makes a lot of sense to do something like the Twitter Stream API instead of webhooks. 

That said, people keep looking to webhooks to solve "realtime to the browser" or things like this. This shows there is obviously a need for it. While it's possible to do with a lot of tools (Orbited, fancy/hacky Comet setups, etc), I've been working on just solving this issue. In essence, "the Real Time Web as a Service." (Although as a Platform is maybe more apt)

I was doing it on my own time, but I was recently hired at very webhook-centric company to build this as a cloud service. And we're in a private preview now. If you'd like to try this out, please email me directly. 

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Jeff Lindsay
http://progrium.com

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[David Beckwith]

I'm interested.  What's your direct email address?

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Not sure how off-topic this is, but:

You need a couple of things to receive messages on your desktop:

1. A java or C program listening on some port. (The user would authorize it run on start-up/boot.)

2. Registration on a dynamic DNS to handle at-home users who don't have a stable ip address.

I guess you could write a Java program that when installed, connects you to some kind of P2P or server-client network that registers your current ip address and records all the POST requests that you would like to receive.  Then maybe that Java program could talk to a Chrome or Firefox plugin?

Would that work?  How do you guys solve it?

D :)

[Jeff Lindsay]

My email is in this email.

[David Beckwith]

Oh yeah.  Duh.  hehe.

[Daniel Parker]

Sorry guys, didn't realize I included 4 emails deep. The first one's the main one, so I'm sending again. Disregard the other one.

- daniel parker -

[Tom Tasche]

Not sure if I understood you correctly, but does your product, API or whatever "convert" Twitter's Streaming API to webhooks?

Tom

[Jeff Lindsay]

No, but that's another project. Are you interested in that?