Introduction to my project: Notifications
I’m the only developer working on Notifications, an application that allows you to receive push notifications on your iPhone. I’m also not working full time (normally) on this application, even I think I worked 110 hours on it just within the last 7 days. This is the application official blog, where I will share what it is like to run such an application on the back office, giving you numbers and feedback.
What is the application doing? The homepage currently states “App Notifications is an iPhone app that acts as a client for the Apple Push Notification Service. Use our ready-made Twitter, Gmail, and RSS notification services to instantly receive new tweets, search results, emails, RSS feeds, or create your own custom notifications with our simple REST API. Did we say instantly? We really mean it…” and it says it all, nothing to add to this except I try my best to send your notifications within seconds to the Apple servers. The main goal is to be a notification hub, not focusing on anything special like Twitter or RSS or else, there are better apps for that, but just receive notifications. What else ?
I’ve included a simple but complete API, you can therefor send yourself notifications defining the sound, message, etc.
I’ve also included e-mail notifications, everything you forward to your appnotifications e-mail address is pushed to you, and if you want it bounced to your account e-mail address.
I’ve also included a RSS push system using my friend’s service SuperFeedr with PubSubHubbub so it’s efficient on my side, and for you too.
As you might know already, I’ve also added a Twitter plugin too so you get notified on specific keywords.
I’m using my own Ruby on Rails plugin which I talked about on the private Apple developer forums months ago (I work on this project since last April), git for source management, unit test a lot of things and write scenarios in the unit test to make the platform as bugfree as possible. I use uservoice for the support page (well, to submit idea in fact).
I’m Fabien Penso (my blog, my photography).
