OneSignal Builds Hacker News Notifications With a Little Help From Algolia

Post Details

Company

Algolia

Date Published

June 3, 2016

Author

Guillaume Dumortier

Word Count

453

Company Posts That Month

1

Language

English

Hacker News Points

-

Post removed?

No

Source URL

www.algolia.com/blog/engineering/onesignal-builds-hacker-news-notifications-with-a-little-help-from-algolia

Summary

The Algolia community is a valuable asset, as seen when OneSignal utilized Algolia's Hacker News Search API to create a demo of their notification platform. OneSignal, which helps developers send effective push notifications, wanted to showcase the capabilities of Web Push and their support for it. They built a push notification system for Hacker News using Algolia's API, allowing users to receive notifications about trending stories with just a Chrome web browser. The demo successfully gained upvotes on Hacker News, demonstrating the potential of Web Push and OneSignal's services.

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