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The part that appealed to me the most: unlike other apps where you have to select from a list of integrations, you can literally craft a HTTP request like in Postman to get data from any API: https://getradar.co/docs/adding-data

How about the scriptable output? https://getradar.co/docs/customizing-value ;)

URL: https://hacker-news.firebaseio.com/v0/user/onion2k.json

Path: data.karma

Now it's useful!

Will add the Hackernews 1-click installer to check karma points ;)

Added a 1-click installer to check HN karma points.

Hey Vignesh, Consider adding facility for invoking system notifications. People were looking for such a solution on my problem validation platform[1].

Congratulations on the launch, I've been following your development since you announced it couple of months back.

Couple of other quick suggestions,

Linux KDE: Panel gets struck to the top right and cannot be moved elsewhere. This interferes with other items there. Mac screenshots on your site shows different panel placement. The ability to move the panel to desired location could be ideal.

[1]https://needgap.com/problems/144-on-demand-hacker-news-notif...

Thanks! Sure, I'll look into the panel placement issue.

It’s a nice utility but I feel it is another activity that will further sap our focus. As if social media hasn’t done enough damage by utilizing “easy” to get our attention.

Yeah. But, I felt this is better than opening multiple browser tabs and losing focus. So, I built this.

Me too! I did my fix with a new-tab-page. So I see all that glance-able stuff frequently

Would love to hear more about your fix.

Ok. It's a new tab extension for FF or Chrome. Put all my favourite (read: work sites) on huge buttons at the top - so two clicks to CorpSlack (and like a dozen other sites. And below is these Social widgets, little JS tools showing me neat things from Reddit, Twitter, etc and then I put a textarea in there too, so I can quickly Ctrl+N and write a note (in local storage) extensions are super easy, and easy to extend too (for a cider)

reminds me of pageflakes/netvibes/my.yahoo days -when rss was prevalent and super useful.

Is a good util by the looks of it, it was a backhanded compliment

This is a great idea but just so developers know, you can do some great stuff with google sheets, I made one with google sheets and the built-in request object via google sheet scripting to do REST requests for data and found that to be super useful. You can then tie it in to calculations and totals etc. using spreadsheet functionality...but this is nice for a quick summary with little effort.

Bitbar also does a decent job on Macos

birbar isn't developed any more. it's rebooted as xbar

https://github.com/matryer/xbar

I've switched to SwiftBar currently. https://github.com/swiftbar/SwiftBar

Why did you switch? I use xbar to run a script every second for the existence of a file, and I noticed xbar using a lot of resources.

After moving the icon around to my fav place, xbar didn't retain the position on menu bar after restart.

Bitbar/xbar is great because it isn’t limited to just calling an API. You can run a .py or .sh and print the results, enabling more complex workflows and displays. I’ve build some pretty niche tools using it, mostly related to local weather

Love it, especially the no account part.

Unfortunately the things that I keep checking don't have an API. So I've been looking for something like this that scrapes - and that can detect if it's a login page and log me in.

I realize that it's unlikely that I'll ever find it but I don't have the time to make it myself atm.

Can you contact me (info in bio), I’m working on something that does what you just mentioned. It would be great to see your use cases so that I can integrate them.

Sure. Will do that.

Like the local data approach, but was surprised to read for at least the Google Analytics option your OAuth token is routed through Radar services (even if it’s use is then local), which feels a bit of a bummer when the effort was otherwise there to be all local.

I can understand your concern. But, I need to comply with Google APIs Terms of Service. https://developers.google.com/terms#b_confidential_matters

> You will keep your credentials confidential and make reasonable efforts to prevent and discourage other API Clients from using your credentials. Developer credentials may not be embedded in open source projects

That’s a fair point, I forgot you had to use a token on your end too to make the flow work; thanks for your reply.

The site says that "Radar is entirely free for open-source maintainers.". Can you please elaborate on this? I understand it as if you're contributing to any open-source software, and can prove it, you will get won't be asked to pay?

Sure. Without open-source projects, I would not have been able to build Radar. So, I wanted to give something back for the incredible work open-source maintainers are doing out there. Hence, the statement.

You will find it on the pricing page when Radar comes out of beta. The only thing I'm confused about is what kind of criteria I have to set before giving a free license to the person who wants to claim the offer? I'd appreciate it much if any of you guys can help set the criteria.

Trying to install the cryptocurrency extension, but it's not working for me. Opening the XDG link from Chrome doesn't affect Radar. Running Ubuntu 18.04.

Thanks! I will check it out. Please get in touch using the support link in the landing page so that, I can let you know once I fix the issue.

Neat idea! If the author is checking the comments, videos don't work on Firefox Android (they do on Chrome Android).

Thanks! I will check the issue.

How much are you thinking in terms of price? I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD.

> I'd be willing to pay between $10 and $20 USD

I'd argue that seems grossly optimistic for most users. Considering that many useful tools are free and most people balk at paying $6.99 for an app.

How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

> How about a $0 starter tier for max. of x monitors, with a max freq. of every y hrs... then move up to a one-time fee that is more generous, but still constrained, and finally have a monthly fee that allows unlimited.

Yeah! That seems like a nice strategy. Do you think people will be ready to pay subscription for unlimited access?

I would MUCH prefer a subscription personally.

I think you would be the exception. In fact, you may the only person I’ve ever heard express this preference.

I second this. Most people I know, including myself, would much rather have one time purchase.

The problem with a one-time-fee for a cloud service is that it's unsustainable. That's why I suggest OP have constraints on accounts unless paying a subscription fee. If you really find a 3rd party cloud service (requiring servers/networking/bandwidth) valuable, you should assist in its survival. The fee should be nominal (unless real support is included) but non-zero.

I agree, and that's why, although you maybe thought somewhat outrageous, if OP is going down the 1-time path, i'd rather pay a lot in hope that they can keep the cloud services running for years even if they decided to stop working on it. I like your formula approach.

What canada_dry said below. Especially for what seems to be a solo developer, I'd rather this was costed so as even if they decided to stop working on it, the margin per month was such that I could continue to use it for years. I feel like for a solo developer doing a 1 time fee, more likely to disappear after a couple of years

I haven't finalised the price. But, it'll be more than $20 for sure.

More than 20 a month, annually? Fixed purchase.

I meant that for a fixed purchase. I'm still contemplating setting up subscription plans.

Then over $20 is definitely ok. I was just surprised thinking it would be +$20 a month! Just downloaded.

Raycast does it as a spotlight replacement.

I contributed a minor update to the Gitlab scripts.

Can recommend

Raycast does look interesting.

+1. I never thought I would replace Alfred ever, but Raycast did it. Two weeks now and I don't miss a thing.

Raycast seems very performant and scriptable/hackable.

What is the minimum refresh interval for auto-refresh?

It's 1 minute.

Based on the photo this isn’t in the menu bar. It’s something I can see in a menu that I can get to from the menu bar.

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