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by finnn 3822 days ago
Why does this need to be an app? What does it do that a website can't?
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espinchi 3822 days ago
Well it's about push notifications to your phone, so it has to be an app.
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finnn 3822 days ago
That is not true. [0] [1]

[2] is my crappy push notification service mostly built for my own usage because PushBullet started getting more bloated and annoying.

[0]: https://developers.google.com/web/updates/2015/03/push-notif...

[1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Push_API

[2]: https://github.com/thefinn93/EasyPush

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cynix 3822 days ago
None of these work natively on iOS.
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finnn 3822 days ago
This doesn't work on iOS? I thought it did. [0] claims it can do this on Chrome for iOS, or maybe by native you mean on Safari, which doesn't seem to support it...

[0]: https://storage-cdn.realtime.co/chrome-push/index.html

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cynix 3822 days ago
Yeah by natively I meant without installing 3rd party apps, which is what the GP complained about.
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joshkpeterson 3822 days ago
But you need to have the page open in a browser on your phone, no?
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kozkozkoz 3822 days ago
This is just the start. Also some notifications are time sensitive and you always carry your phone with you so you won't miss it.

We are also working on notifications API for Chrome as the next step for the web interface.

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