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Show HN: I made my Mac moan every time someone pays me:D

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I think it's an interesting idea, and I would actually buy it, but there's one thing missing for me: a simple API. I use neither Stripe nor GA. All I would need is a simple REST URL that I can ping with the event type, data (amount or number) and my key. Create a small markdown description that my coding agent can read, and I could get it running far faster than by using any integration with third-party services.

Three more comments:

- My main concern with applications like that is memory and CPU consumption. I haven't registered it, but after starting, it consumes 85MB. That's tolerable these days, but more than other menu bar apps I am using, and they have far more functionality. I appreciate small applications being a small footprint.

- Maybe I am not the target group, but I really prefer the more 'family-friendly' sounds. I don't want to explain to my kids why my computer is moaning.

- There may be a market for notification tools that offer a bit more flexibility (like letting users configure the text that's displayed). Or even offering a widget. I am aware of free tools like Übersicht for that, but I don't want to waste 1 GB of RAM for a small 64x64 widget, just because it uses a full HTML+JS rendering engine.

Hello, Thank you for your valuable feedback! Those are some great insights, really appreciate it, so yes, i will go ahead and implement your idea for a simple API, probably will ship it in the next 2 days, will msg back in here. Gonna also look at the memory and CPU consumptions bits more closely and try to optimize to the max. Regarding the sounds, so there is a range that you can use really, you are in control, you can even override the sounds files and add your own! also i will be adding even more sounds (in total gonna target around 50-100 sounds). You can also configure the text that's displayed this is already impelmented.

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