It's a push notification platform for anything you can build it into. Load up your HN profile and there's a Notifo box to get notified when someone responds to your comment. Apps they put together like Push.ly to notify you when someone DMs/RTs/Mentions you on Twitter (note: they released this before twitter added the functionality to their apps).
My friend uses it on a site for his sales/signup process, when a transaction goes through he knows immediately.
One of the plugins I use the most is their Chrome to Notifo plugin for Google Chrome. If I'm on a page I can hit the button and it will push the page URL to my phone.
Same space, different offering. If you want _mobile_ push notifications, you need a mobile app in the App Store/Android Market that can hook up to APNS/C2DM, et cetera. Notifo does that.
Why couldn't Chad (who posted this) just have written a little summary of the company below the link? Even better, he could have added it to the form. This would leave the potential beta testers out of confusion and wouldn't require useless comments like yours to have to be posted.
Is that so hard?
[edit: I'm getting downvoted for this. Why? Could someone please post a reason why jraines' comment was useful in anyway?]
sigh Fine, I'll bite. I posted that comment for the same reason you posted yours: to discourage a type of comment I consider useless. There's nothing lazier, especially in a forum for hackers, than "what is this and why should I care?!". IMO the right attitude is "wow, something I have never heard of is at the top HN? Awesome, let me take 30 effing seconds to learn about something new that my peers consider important or cool". Then, if you still have questions, ask away, to the benefit of the forum.
Thanks for writing back. I'm sorry if my comment came across as rude, as I really did not intend it to be that way. However, while I also did find mian2zi3's considerably useless, he probably speaks for a lot of people with the same question. lmgtfy is great for the most part. But in this case, the original poster of the link could have been a little more professional and saved the potential beta testers the time to look into why they would want to beta test for the site.
the original poster of the link could have been a little
more professional and saved the potential beta testers
the time to look into why they would want to beta test
for the site.
To be fair Chad was a bit rushed while submitting this; just running out the door to pick me up as we were cutting it close for a drive down to Mountain View to meet with pg.