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Instapush: Instant notifications for things that matter

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Instant notifications for things that matter within your web app or service.

For people looking to pull the same thing off on iOS, check out Prowl (http://www.prowlapp.com). It's designed to forward your mac's Growl notifications to your iPhone, but they also have an http endpoint you can use to trigger push notifications. I've been using it for the last 2 years to notify me of events on my server, just like Instapush.

After browsing the site, I'm left with 2 questions: What does this service offer that makes it more desirable than the whole crowd of other Notification-As-A-Service providers, and how do I make an API call to it? It doesn't look like there are API docs, so I would need to dissect one of their linked wrappers.

as far as I understand. It's especially interesting for product/apps/services owners to follow up on transactions that they find important. And about API there's a raw CURL right there curl -X POST \ -H "x-instapush-appid: 529e45aa128773e72b8b4567" \ -H "x-instapush-appsecret: e5aaf9c65ce78d67718e68557e31ad66" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"event":"registeration", "trackers":{"email":"someone@somewhere.com","country":"US"}}' \ http://api.instapush.im/post

Sending the secret in plaintext over HTTP. Yikes.

Ah, my bad. I didn't notice the curl shown, since it's listed next to language implementations

and It's now over HTTPS

The whole point of the service is to basically relay HTTP calls to push notifications but you only support 1 of the 2 main mobile platforms? Am I not seeing the iOS client or is this Android only?

Also, no pricing page. Will this be a pay-only service after beta or freemium or free?

API is http instead of https and doesn't require signing the request body or parameters :(

you are right about http. it should be https, I'll pass it on. But request is already authorized with headers? you can email them info@instapush.im and let them know how you'd love to do it, I'm sure they will listen.

Does this use Google Cloud Messaging for Android[1]?

[1]: http://developer.android.com/google/gcm/index.html

Yes

AWesome, awesome, awesome.

Can you also support client-side support for the people that are using Parse?

As in, write a few lines of code in my Android app that sends a push to me.

Last question, why did you choose to launch on Android?

Yea, just make an HTTP request from your android app. as simple as that.

Their python wrapper for their service is a complete mess. If it is a indicator as to the code quality of the rest of their product I would not depend on it for anything important.

Typo on the homepage. "add the code after succesfull transaction" should be "add the code after a successful transaction"

Thanks! fixed

Also, sensitive instead of sensetive.

Thanks again clearly someone needs to be fired! lol

Pushover && Pushbullet clone

I might disagree with you. that's more towards developers less towards consumers.

Erm isn't your service just as, if not more more developer-centric than the other 2 services mentioned?

Consumers don't really use HTTP APIs..

similar to http://getredalert.com

And similar to Snitch[1] except Snitch doesn't seem to have launched yet.

[1]: http://trysnitch.com/

How does it make money?

This is super awesome!!

Open Source? If not, count me out.

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