[jawns]

There are tons of notification services out there, but most of them focus on one particular niche (such as stock prices, social mentions, monitoring news sites, etc.)

On the one hand, I like how broad this is. It purports to handle a bunch of different types of events, and all you have to do is describe what you want in plain English.

On the other hand, I'm skeptical about how well a service can execute when it has to handle such a broad range of alert types.

I've written a lot of notification-type stuff (e.g. monitor a Twitter feed for when my book titles are mentioned, monitor a bank account for unusual activity, monitor a blog without an RSS feed for new posts), and it's definitely not a one-size-fits-all type of service. If GetNotified has to write new code for each monitoring request, I would imagine the subscriptions would have to run for a good long while before they make a profit.

P.S.: A little free copy editing help: There's a typo in "If you are in doubt, just submit the request and will let you know if it can be done or not."

[smailq]

Few ways we handle the notifications :

1. Find existing service that handles the job - integrate it, or just let the user know, or subscribe to it on behalf of the user.

2. Write code - automate it, script it if possible

3. Virtual assistance - let our VAs handle the monitoring if there is no other way

Hope this answers :)

Thanks for the fix!

[damian2000]

By VA you mean something like TaskRabbit?