<story><title>Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app</title><url>http://www.airgramapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Congrats on the app, it looks nice.&lt;p&gt;I launched Pushover (&lt;a href=&quot;https://pushover.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://pushover.net/&lt;/a&gt;) this week, which looks to be pretty much the same exact product as yours: an HTTP API to push messages to an iOS and Android client.&lt;p&gt;I built it over the past 4 weeks to replace my use of Notifo, which shut down last year.  There are a few other apps already available, like Prowl, Boxcar, and NotifyMyAndroid, but none were cross-platform, so I built Pushover.&lt;p&gt;I am charging for my app as a way to pay for the server costs, as I&apos;m not sure how else these types of apps can make money and stay around.  Notifo had a lot of users but their apps were free and I don&apos;t know if they even had any paying content providers pushing large amounts of messages.  How do you plan to make money with yours?</text></item><item><author>navneetloiwal</author><text>Push notifications are a great way to consume time-sensitive information, like price/airfare,
sports, stocks, app reviews, etc. Airgram makes it dead-simple to deliver these alerts &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt;
having to build your own app, so that you can focus on building interesting services.&lt;p&gt;Give it a spin! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airgramapp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.airgramapp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think notifications will become the primary way that we consume on the mobile device and may be
the reason we move away from downloadable software and back to web based software on our mobile
devices.&quot; - Fred Wilson (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joering2</author><text>there, I like your design better, since I am comparing to Airgram right now: immediately I can see how it looks on the mobile device screen because you provide an image, AND I see the code in different languages, which is easy for my eyes to match to languages I am writing in. So, if I would need this kind of functionality today, I would go with yours.</text></comment>
<story><title>Show HN: Airgram - Send iOS/Android notifications, without building an app</title><url>http://www.airgramapp.com</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>there</author><text>Congrats on the app, it looks nice.&lt;p&gt;I launched Pushover (&lt;a href=&quot;https://pushover.net/&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https://pushover.net/&lt;/a&gt;) this week, which looks to be pretty much the same exact product as yours: an HTTP API to push messages to an iOS and Android client.&lt;p&gt;I built it over the past 4 weeks to replace my use of Notifo, which shut down last year.  There are a few other apps already available, like Prowl, Boxcar, and NotifyMyAndroid, but none were cross-platform, so I built Pushover.&lt;p&gt;I am charging for my app as a way to pay for the server costs, as I&apos;m not sure how else these types of apps can make money and stay around.  Notifo had a lot of users but their apps were free and I don&apos;t know if they even had any paying content providers pushing large amounts of messages.  How do you plan to make money with yours?</text></item><item><author>navneetloiwal</author><text>Push notifications are a great way to consume time-sensitive information, like price/airfare,
sports, stocks, app reviews, etc. Airgram makes it dead-simple to deliver these alerts &lt;i&gt;without&lt;/i&gt;
having to build your own app, so that you can focus on building interesting services.&lt;p&gt;Give it a spin! &lt;a href=&quot;http://www.airgramapp.com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.airgramapp.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;&quot;I think notifications will become the primary way that we consume on the mobile device and may be
the reason we move away from downloadable software and back to web based software on our mobile
devices.&quot; - Fred Wilson (&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/03/mobile-notifications.html&lt;/a&gt;)</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jwr</author><text>So did Notifo actually shut down or not? I mean, it still works for me, and the web page is up. I offered many times to pay for the service.</text></comment>