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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by ejo4041 on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:17AM (#10169908)
I have a filter on my gmail so my phone plays the coin sound from Super Mario Bros. every time I get a Paypal/Etsy/Ebay/Amazon payment. It's quite satisfying to hear that throughout the day.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by andrey-p on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:50AM (#10170051)
A friend of mine set up IFTTT so his phone would play a "ka-tching" sound every time someone paid for a premium account for his startup. The novelty never seemed to wear off.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by willcodeforfoo on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:34AM (#10169975)
Can you elaborate? I've been looking for a way to do this on an iPhone.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by g4k on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:59AM (#10170888)
You can use Pushover for that: https://pushover.net/ Just install the client on your phone and ping the API on each sale.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by micro-ram on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:03AM (#10170915)
VIP Tag/Folder http://www.howtogeek.com/208904/how-to-only-get-notification...
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by LaurentVB on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:36AM (#10169983)
We implemented something similar 5 months ago, but wired to an event in segment (we don't use stripe). The bot would post a random gif from giphy tagged with 'money'. After a while we became tired of seeing Nicki Minaj appear in our slack...
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by dewey on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:04PM (#10171637)
I just realized that my favorite Nicki Minaj gifs are not included in that set. Pull request submitted!
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by ihsw on Friday September 04, 2015 @02:03PM (#10171959)
For those curious -- here are the new images.

https://imgur.com/BRDCAXR,JL8AwZw,JWnWT39,tIentMt

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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by confluence on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:35AM (#10169982)
You quickly realize that this is a bad idea when the payments come in fast enough.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by madeofpalk on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:45AM (#10170031)
Lets solve that problem when we get to it :)
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by confluence on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:50AM (#10170053)
I'm simply speaking from experience.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by Killswitch on Friday September 04, 2015 @12:09PM (#10171318)
Embrace it. Use the Mario Bro's coin sound, so then when they come in rapidly, you can pretend he's running through a long line of coins.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by ISL on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:16AM (#10170993)
Seems like it'd be easy to rescale the notifications to every Nth transaction, or whatever the goal is, when the rate got higher.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by YorickPeterse on Friday September 04, 2015 @10:54AM (#10170860)
It's called a minimum viable product.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by atom-morgan on Friday September 04, 2015 @09:25AM (#10170208)
Even more noise at work. Like an office alarm that goes off for every new user.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by timthimmaiah on Friday September 04, 2015 @01:21PM (#10171738)
For Hipchat users, here's a fork of this I made: https://github.com/tim-thimmaiah/make-it-rain
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by sgberlin on Friday September 04, 2015 @08:43AM (#10170016)
I've wrote a little console script that played a cash register sound after a google analytics conversion. We only had a few sales a day though.
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Re:Make it Rain – Animated gif notifications whenever you ge... by pfalke on Friday September 04, 2015 @11:01AM (#10170902)
All on one page: http://fitztrev.github.io/make-it-rain/
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