Show HN: Hooks – Get Custom Notifications for Everything Important to You

The landing page doesn&#x27;t tell me what this does at all. I get that it does alerts that somehow get onto the apple watch, but nothing else.<p>&quot;Discover our channels&quot; --&gt; what are channels?<p>Ah ok after watching the video I get a much better idea of how to use the app. I&#x27;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:<p>* Sports: NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL games and scores<p>* Music concerts<p>* Videogames releases, Twitch streams<p>* Weather: rain, ice, snow, temperature drop<p>* TV shows<p>* Lottery results<p>* Pollen, allergy alerts<p>* Meetups<p>* Films by rating, director or starring<p>* Top restaurants<p>* AMBER alerts<p>* Shipment tracking for every courier<p>* Website down<p>* Horoscope<p>* Earthquake<p>* Mentions of you or your brand<p>* Online courses<p>* Alexa rank<p>* Currency exchange rated including Bitcoin<p>* Stocks<p>* Twitter, Pinterest, Instagram, Flickr, Youtube, Vimeo, Quora updates<p>* Reddit, ProductHunt, HackerNews top articles

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: <a href="https://github.com/trending?since=daily" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;github.com&#x2F;trending?since=daily</a> (and variations on this theme). I will be a long time user. Keep up the great work and integrate more services!

For a &quot;roll your own&quot; approach I use Pushover on iOS (I know people using PushBullet on Android) and then either use the Email-&gt;Push gateway and&#x2F;or I have a simple bash script &quot;push&quot; 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:<p><pre><code> cp &#x2F;source&#x2F;dir &#x2F;target&#x2F;dir &amp;&amp; push &quot;Moved&quot; &quot;Source Dir&quot; </code></pre> So that I&#x27;m not constantly checking screen or worse, forget about it and come back 1-2 days later.

If this is what I imagine this to be, you&#x27;ve saved me thousands of hours of development to make something I&#x27;ve wanted&#x2F;needed for years.<p>Signed up, checking it out now.

It doesn&#x27;t explain on the website, but how is this better than native notifications on iOS?

What I&#x27;d really like to get are bank account and credit card activity alerts.

The up button at the bottom of the page leads to 404. <a href="http://gethooksapp.com/app_landing_new/#intro" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;gethooksapp.com&#x2F;app_landing_new&#x2F;#intro</a><p>Also your Press Kit is 404.

Is there a way to build completely custom alerts, ie something fired off by a script on the user&#x27;s computer, through your app? If not, is there plans to add this functionality?

[Disclaimer] I work at Semantics3.<p>We&#x27;ve been secretly working on a much more industrial-scale version of this, with a focus on getting price updates for eCommerce products.<p>Basically you can register a product URL, select the price change event that matters to you, and we&#x27;ll push it to you via our Push Notifications API.<p>Its been in the works for a while, but we have MASSIVE scale. Our database is &gt;60 million, and you can get price change push notifications on any of them.<p>Pretty useful if you&#x27;re building your own shopping app and want the latest prices! It also helps, especially if you&#x27;re trying to keep up with Amazon&#x27;s pricing games.<p>Link: content.semantics3.com&#x2F;webhooks-intro

Android? No?

Since the app is free... privacy policy? I didn&#x27;t find anything in your press kit or on your site.

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

What are the differences between this and IFTTT?

Awesome!

502. Nice.