An email for every reply can be annoying. The extension I developed embeds an In-App Inbox inside HackerNews (If you've used Reddit, you know). So, everything stays inside HackerNews itself. No push notifications or emails.
Nice to hear your perspective. Just asking, You wouldn't use it even if it's just a badge (or an indication), and nothing intrusive like a push, or a popup?
You know on reddit it has that little orangered envelope to notify you of when you have a reply? I use uBlock Origin to nuke even that tiny little envelope (I also remove a lot of other stuff from reddit to be fair).
A few years ago I totally removed all forms of notifications outside of actual critical things such as my sons school calling.
On my phone I have no notification badges on the icons and all app notifications disabled. I don't care to know about anything without it being my choice.
Do I waste a few seconds now and then? Sure but it's time I can control. If I don't want to waste those few seconds I just don't check for any updates. With a notification I have no choice, that second or two is sucked away from me no matter what.
Perhaps it seems extreme but using a phone, tablet or computer is so much better when it doesn't keep poking you in the eye with "look at me!!" badges or notification shades popping or sliding in the corner or edge of the screen.
That's nice :) In my case, notification (or an indicator atleast) help me save a lot of time. This is especially when I'm serious about knowing the latest updates on something. If it's something less critical, I'd simply snooze them!
For a developer, it might look "easier" because literally anything could be built by coding if there is no limit on the time and money they can spend.
But for a company, this means more to them. Of course, they can build anything but there is something called "opportunity cost". A CPO or a CTO or the leadership thinks differently compared to a software developer. The decision is between "whether we should build this feature and add one more potential point of failure for or just buy it and let the vendor worry about it". And this time and effort (that could exponentially grow as the product scale) could be used to build another core product feature that will add direct value to our users.
Most of the time, the "buy" decision is less riskier and economical (in the long run), unless you are a tech giant like Amazon or Google where they might build everything in-house or just acquire the vendor's product and make it their own.
Would love to know more about what kinds of integrations you're looking for? For querying data sources, we have integrations for most databases and core APIs. Anything we don't currently support you can hit with our REST, GraphQL, gRPC integrations in a Postman-like experience.
We're also working on NPM module support (so you can pull in any SDK) right now.
As you might already know, Heroku is stopping their free tier next month. Many developers were using Heroku to host their side projects, and to deploy branches for PR review.
I tried to make a list of alternatives with a free tier. Please feel free to contribute to the repo through PRs.
