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The code - https://github.com/magicbell-io/webpush-test

If you are building an app just for yourself, or a small team. you can leverage our product MagicBell (https://www.magicbell.com), and get in-app, push, text, and Slack notifications in one API call.

Congratulations on the launch! It's great to see more innovation in this space.

Could this be used for Instagram?

MagicBell (YC W21) | Founding Frontend Engineer, Founding Backend Engineer | Remote | https://magicbell.com

MagicBell is the notification inbox for web & mobile apps. Building a notification system is hard - there are multiple APIs to learn and a ton of work in nailing down the UI and UX of the inbox. We take care of all that and enable our customers to launch in an hour, not months.

If you enjoy working on APIs and UI components that millions of developers would use, we’d love to chat. We are funded by Y Combinator (W21), post-revenue, and fully remote. We pay well and offer stock options with a 10-year exercise window (details in the job posts). We care a lot about diversity - three out of the five people team are women.

Founding Frontend Engineer - React, Typescript & Jest. https://www.notion.so/magicbell/Founding-Frontend-Engineer-a...

Founding Backend Engineer- Ruby on Rails, Rspec https://magicbell.notion.site/Founding-Backend-Engineer-at-M...

We are also hiring iOS/Android founding engineers (to build our SDKs) and if you are interested in that role, please write to magicians@magicbell.io

Join a well-funded, YC, seed startup that’s growing exponentially, fast approaching a Series A!

Disclaimer: Not an artist myself but a friend of the writer, and a co-founder of MagicBell - the host of the blog.

Aren't there a lot of artists (just like there are lots of actors) who have a day job to pay the bills? If that job happens to be in tech (and pay well) that should ideally be of interest to many people. Not to everyone but surely to some I assume. They won't be invested in the IPO or disruption but they could be interested in doing their job well and making a good living. I have a lot of friends (not all artists) who are super smart but work for low pay at restaurants and I for one sure wish they could work at tech and make more money. I know for a fact many of them would want to.

I'd say that the main complexity comes from exposing the logs/analytics to your end-users. I am hoping Svix will help companies implement Webhooks as well as companies like Stripe do.

Here is the Firefox addon! - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/hacker-news-n...

I am not sure I understand. Can you please elaborate?

Just to be clear, we simply validate your session by requesting the page with your cookie and seeing if we get a logged in page. We never send your info to any third party.

That doesn’t prevent someone from being able to impersonate you. The only alternative would be for HN to provide oauth access to your profile info.

Sorry about the oversight in the chrome store page. We'll fix that asap. The privacy policy page has a link to the privacy policy hosted by Iubenda if you have Javascript disabled. If you have Javascript enabled, the privacy policy renders inline.

We’d love to but my guess is Apple hasn’t made it easy to do :) FF and chrome are pretty close in terms of their plug-in architecture.

While the comments themselves are open, their state in your MagicBell inbox isn’t. If we didn’t have a way to validate identity, we won’t be able to make sure your notifications can’t be deleted/marked read by someone else.

Thank you! No blog post yet but your comment has inspired me to write one :)

The entire session cookie to validate your login. Unfortunately there is no other reliable way to do.

Thanks! Like you mention on that page, the ability to follow threads without having to comment on them would be great. It’s next on our list of features.

It contacts magicbell.io. HN does not provide an API that we can query in real-time to fetch your notifications.

Yes, absolutely! Working on that next. How do we notify you when it's ready? You can email me hana [at] magicbell.io and I'll email you just once when it's ready.

Hey HN!

We made a chrome extension to notify you of new comments on your stories and comments.

Once installed, it adds a bell to HN's header and shows new notifications in real-time. Clicking on the bell loads a notification inbox with easy access to all your notifications with a clear distinction between the read/unread ones.

Unlike some other options like HN replies, here are the key differences

We don't ask for your email address - we use the HN cookie to identify you. There is no setup beyond adding the extension. Apart from on-page notifications, you can also subscribe to web-push notifications.

We are using HN Firebase API to get a real-time feed of notifications, and our startup, [MagicBell (YC W21)](https://magicbell.io), to power the notification inbox. We built this extension because we found it hard to keep track of our [Launch HN thread](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26037645) comments.

We want to build a version for Firefox & Safari, and if you'd like to know when they go live, please follow us on [Twitter](https://twitter.com/magicbell_io). Dozens of early users have tested the extension, but if you run into any issues, please tweet at us, and we'd be more than happy to help you with it. We'd also love to hear your ideas on additional functionality you'd like to see.

You can use (as you guessed) an `userExternalId` - https://developer.magicbell.io/docs/browser-js#identifying-u....

That's how we built our HN Chrome extension that never asks for your email - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-notifi...

Excellent feedback! I updated the article and used the heading you suggested. Thanks.

We handle state changes (and sync them real-time). We'll get to rate limiting and other features you mentioned in the coming months. We have a pretty extensive roadmap and would love to keep you posted - @magicbell_io.

That's a fair point. We need to setup some examples with mock API calls so we can offer a consistent state to all new visitors. In the meantime, here is a quick demo - https://codesandbox.io/s/elastic-northcutt-9pcgv

It certainly looks deceptively simple. Once you factor in real-time updates with multi-device sync, things start to get challenging pretty fast. Also, that's 2,000 monthly active users. Happy to discuss on twitter @unamashana

7% for $125k with some pro-rata rights - https://www.ycombinator.com/deal/

I live in Barcelona and love the quality of life. Happy to answer any questions. Twitter @unamashana

That's right! I completely forgot about the AWS/GCP credits. Even in a realistic usage scenario, that's adding 25 - 50k to your funding over a couple of years. The legal fees waiver for upto 10k is another one.

They try to minimize the distractions (and they recommend you do too). Personally, I like being distracted a bit and mingling so it worked out just fine for me. Other than the group office hours, they don't insist you attend anything up until the demo day preparation starts.

Ah so that was it! Thanks for pointing this out. Pushing up a fix now.