Push More
Infrastructure
webhook relay
SHOW HN2018
How HN took it
2 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 9 comments about the project. Thread score 0.00.
Idea: 2 for, 1 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Useful for routing webhooks into Telegram
From 2 comments
Wow, care to elaborate more about the switch from Slack to Telegram? I've been thinking of doing the same with my team, and this webhook feature was exactly what I was going to…
igammarays on HNI built a quick app with PushMore, to send limited 80 character alerts. It requires a passphrase to send, so that you're not spammed all the time. https://pingr.xyz
jajoosam on HN
Objections
Webhook URL is visible to everyone in a group
From 1 comment
We switched from Slack to Telegram a few months ago for our team communication at BetaList. Some of our website notifications (new signups, certain errors, etc) still were sent…
keesj on HN
Relying on a third-party service is unnecessary when Telegram can be called directly
From 2 comments
This kind of feature can easily be implemented by oneself as we described here: https://www.curry-software.com/en/blog/telegram_unit_fail/ No need for an external service and…
jdemler on HNAbsolutely. Their API as well as community's convenience wrappers are pretty excellent. Wrote an entire bot in a day (@LiveCoinWatchBot) and that's a testament to the development…
synthmeat on HN
Requests
Privacy controls for webhook URLs
From 1 comment
We switched from Slack to Telegram a few months ago for our team communication at BetaList. Some of our website notifications (new signups, certain errors, etc) still were sent…
keesj on HN
Escape whitespace and parse URLs in messages
From 1 comment
I love it but it has a few catches. could you please escape the whitespace? "hello world" returns me "hello+world" . Also I am trying to configure a nice template on zapier, so…
adv0r on HN
Questions
How group chat use works without documentation
From 2 comments
cool I can get the bot to post a PM to me but the website says it also works in group chats..how? no documentation
adv0r on HNInvite the bot into the group :) (and send /start to get the webhook URL)
keesj on HN
Alternatives named
Calling the Telegram command-line tool directly from code
From 1 comment
This kind of feature can easily be implemented by oneself as we described here: https://www.curry-software.com/en/blog/telegram_unit_fail/ No need for an external service and…
jdemler on HN
Building a custom Python Telegram bot with notification controls
From 1 comment
Haha, I started building something similar using python (not that I like that language, but it seemed like the right tool for what I wanted). Additional features I (partially)…
archi42 on HN