Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push Notifications

Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by FreedomToCreate on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:49PM (#10855837)

They should call the app "Get Distracted". Its an interesting idea, and potentially very useful, but most likely its going to become the annoying reason your phone keeps going off every 5 minutes. Will give it a try to see.

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by espinchi on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:15AM (#10856132)

When I first used it, I got overexcited and configured way too many alerts. But I've been trimming it down heavily, and now a fair percentage of the pushes I get are relevant to me.

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by kozkozkoz on Thursday January 07, 2016 @02:03AM (#10856464)

Cool, how long have you been using Hooks for? Actually this happens a lot, our fault for sure, we need to remove some alerts like "TC all content" :)

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by espinchi on Thursday January 07, 2016 @08:35AM (#10857768)

For a few months. Also, it's one of the few apps I reinstalled when I switched phones. That says something :)

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by afarrell on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:03AM (#10856096)

I find my distractions are more an internal impulse to check things than an external perturbation by someone else. Having a tool that offloads that from my brain would be useful.

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by kozkozkoz on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:53PM (#10855853)

Good point, but on average our users get about 1-2 per day as you choose exactly what you want to receive.

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Re:Show HN: Hooks – Stay Up to Date on Anything Through Push... by jsonne on Wednesday January 06, 2016 @10:57PM (#10855873)

Ehh, I'm not sure. In reality I use it mostly for work etc.

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