Notify.io alternatives

[whatcould]

I'm assuming from the silence notify.io is down for the count.

I've been running/using this Github -> Notify.io service,
commitify.com, which now of course doesn't work. Anybody know of any
good alternative services? There was a startup clone of notify.io a
couple years ago (notify.ly or somesuch), but that seems to have shut
down even before notify.io.

Notify.io was such a great idea, would be a shame to have the concept
disappear.

[Serge Wroclawski]

I started working on one but got distracted.

The source is on github as you know, but it's fairly Google App Engine
tied, so instead, I was playing with Redis's pub/sub, with node.
Notify.io seems to use a bunch of event driven things at once. If
nothing else, it'd be nice to either just use node, or if people hate
note, use *just* gevent.

It would work, and if there was really interest, I'd work on it with folks.

- Serge

[Jeff Lindsay]

Yeah, if I can get around to finishing some other projects (RequestBin, Localtunnel), I can get back around to Notify.io ... that startup clone was Notifo, built by Chad Etzel, who is now a coworker here at Twilio. We'll probably combine forces with the community to bring back Notify.io in some form. 

What would be the most valuable MVP for a reboot of the project? A standalone server that anybody can run and point their Desktop Notifier at?

-jeff

--
Jeff Lindsay
http://progrium.com

[Chris Noon]

Yes please! I would donate a substantive portion of my right arm for that. 

CP

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[Chris]

On 9 Jan 2012, at 19:07, Jeff Lindsay <prog...@gmail.com> wrote:

Yeah, if I can get around to finishing some other projects (RequestBin, Localtunnel), I can get back around to Notify.io ... that startup clone was Notifo, built by Chad Etzel, who is now a coworker here at Twilio. We'll probably combine forces with the community to bring back Notify.io in some form. 

What would be the most valuable MVP for a reboot of the project? A standalone server that anybody can run and point their Desktop Notifier at?

Us here at Snarl would welcome the return of notify.io!

Chris

Lead developer

Snarl

http://getsnarl.info/

[Jeff Lindsay]

Mozilla might be developing this already, actually.

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push/API

-jeff

[npnp]

This doesn't mean people wouldn't like to have their own notify.io
instance.

What do you need to release the standalone notify.io server anyone can
run a reality?

I do understand that notifo copied notify.io, but the github notify.io
code isn't even working.
The live notifications don't work. The code doesn't seem to be the
same with the one running on GAE.

On Feb 3, 11:55 pm, Jeff Lindsay <progr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Mozilla might be developing this already, actually.
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> https://wiki.mozilla.org/Services/Notifications/Push/API
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> -jeff
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> On Wed, Jan 11, 2012 at 3:40 AM, Chris <chris....@fullphat.net> wrote:

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> > On 9 Jan 2012, at 19:07, Jeff Lindsay <progr...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> > Yeah, if I can get around to finishing some other projects (RequestBin,
> > Localtunnel), I can get back around to Notify.io ... that startup clone was
> > Notifo, built by Chad Etzel, who is now a coworker here at Twilio. We'll
> > probably combine forces with the community to bring back Notify.io in some
> > form.
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> > What would be the most valuable MVP for a reboot of the project? A
> > standalone server that anybody can run and point their Desktop Notifier at?
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> > Us here at Snarl would welcome the return of notify.io!
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> > Chris
> > Lead developer
> > Snarl
> >http://getsnarl.info/
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> > -jeff
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> > On Mon, Jan 9, 2012 at 9:05 AM, Serge Wroclawski <emac...@gmail.com>wrote:

[sperenz]

Today notify.io turn on google apps so why couldn't host it on our own
google apps ?

[Jeff Lindsay]

Today notify.io turn on google apps so why couldn't host it on our own
google apps ?

Only the web app part runs on Google, so, yeah. The standalone notification service is really trivial to write, but I just have to find some time (and motivation) to sit down and write it! You'd think it would be easy, but I have a trivial app on App Engine (postbin.org) that needs to be ported to Heroku because it's now costing me $100/week when it would be free on Heroku ... and even this task is proving hard to find time to do. 

Anybody in the SF bay area? Honestly, the best thing we could do is schedule a little hackathon and bang it out.

-jeff

 

On Jan 9, 4:22 pm, whatcould <frayju...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm assuming from the silence notify.io is down for the count.
>
> I've been running/using this Github -> Notify.io service,
> commitify.com, which now of course doesn't work. Anybody know of any
> good alternative services? There was a startup clone of notify.io a
> couple years ago (notify.ly or somesuch), but that seems to have shut
> down even before notify.io.
>
> Notify.io was such a great idea, would be a shame to have the concept
> disappear.

[npnp]

I'm rewriting notify.io from scratch.
I might make it notify.io compatible.

[Jeff Lindsay]

On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 11:30 AM, npnp <np....@gmail.com> wrote:

I'm rewriting notify.io from scratch.
I might make it notify.io compatible.

Cool! Yesterday, Chad (Notifo) and I started talking about a new architecture based on a new open protocol that would ideally build on the work of Mozilla's notification work and our experiences with Notify.io and Notifo. It's a pretty different approach from the original notify.io, but it solves the same problem.

I'll keep you all posted. If we work within the same framework (this protocol we've started talking about), then we can actually all contribute to the same ecosystem.

-jeff

[npnp]

It's good to know you two are working together on this.

I've taken a look at the specs of Mozilla's protocol.
Supporting it will be a breeze.

On Feb 16, 9:38 pm, Jeff Lindsay <progr...@gmail.com> wrote: