Show HN: Hooks – Get Custom Notifications for Everything Important to You (opens in new tab)

This is just what I needed to filter the signal from the noise. Please add Github tracking for repositories that receive more than X stars in one day: https://github.com/trending?since=daily (and variations on this theme). I will be a long time user. Keep up the great work and integrate more services!

For a "roll your own" approach I use Pushover on iOS (I know people using PushBullet on Android) and then either use the Email->Push gateway and/or I have a simple bash script "push" that I can pass a subject and message so that I can very easily setup shells scripts to send me push notifications when they finish (great for long running processes that you might run in screen). All the time in a screen I will do something like:

    cp /source/dir /target/dir && push "Moved" "Source Dir"

So that I'm not constantly checking screen or worse, forget about it and come back 1-2 days later.

What I'd really like to get are bank account and credit card activity alerts.

Is there a way to build completely custom alerts, ie something fired off by a script on the user's computer, through your app? If not, is there plans to add this functionality?

The landing page doesn't tell me what this does at all. I get that it does alerts that somehow get onto the apple watch, but nothing else.

"Discover our channels" --> what are channels?

Ah ok after watching the video I get a much better idea of how to use the app. I'm curious to know how many people actually click on the video to watch it. IMHO good direct copy on the landing page is worth more than a video hidden behind a click.

FYI, there is a text version of our main alerts:

* Sports: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL games and scores

* Music concerts

* Videogames releases, Twitch streams

* Weather: rain, ice, snow, temperature drop

* TV shows

* Lottery results

* Pollen, allergy alerts

* Meetups

* Films by rating, director or starring

* Top restaurants

* AMBER alerts

* Shipment tracking for every courier

* Website down

* Horoscope

* Earthquake

* Mentions of you or your brand

* Online courses

* Alexa rank

* Currency exchange rated including Bitcoin

* Stocks

* Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, Quora updates

* Reddit, ProductHunt, HackerNews top articles

Android? No?

If this is what I imagine this to be, you've saved me thousands of hours of development to make something I've wanted/needed for years.

Signed up, checking it out now.

It doesn't explain on the website, but how is this better than native notifications on iOS?

The up button at the bottom of the page leads to 404. http://gethooksapp.com/app_landing_new/#intro

Also your Press Kit is 404.

Since the app is free... privacy policy? I didn't find anything in your press kit or on your site.

What are the differences between this and IFTTT?

502. Nice.

[Disclaimer] I work at Semantics3.

We've been secretly working on a much more industrial-scale version of this, with a focus on getting price updates for eCommerce products.

Basically you can register a product URL, select the price change event that matters to you, and we'll push it to you via our Push Notifications API.

Its been in the works for a while, but we have MASSIVE scale. Our database is >60 million, and you can get price change push notifications on any of them.

Pretty useful if you're building your own shopping app and want the latest prices! It also helps, especially if you're trying to keep up with Amazon's pricing games.

Link: content.semantics3.com/webhooks-intro

How are you getting at the netflix data? They killed their API for all but a few platforms in the fall.

Awesome!