awaaz

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On an indefinite break. Founder, Opfin. Acquired by Razorpay in 2019. Founder, Zip Phone, YC S14. Acquired by Hike Messenger in 2014. Many other startups before that. Some failed. Some didn't!
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Comment · 8 months ago
You're very kind, thank you!
Comment · 8 months ago
The starting point is a notification from an app that you want to create a rule for. So you wait for a notification, then click on it in the "History" tab, and then you can configure the rest from there. It's slightly non-intuitive, but the reason for that flow is that the app needs the package name of the app, which almost nobody will know.
Comment · 8 months ago
This isn't really a commercial project, so not much of that applies.
Comment · 9 months ago
It does have rules for about 25 common apps already built in. I had considered making a feature to 'share' rules with other users of the app, but that would've required Internet access. And as you can see from the comments on this thread, nobody wants an app like this to send data :(
Comment · 9 months ago
The app requires a very specific permission for this, which it asks for on first launch. It's not even just a popup on which you can tap "Ok" - Android will take you to a special screen from where you need to manually switch on the notifications access for it to work.
Comment · 9 months ago
iOS doesn't give developers access to other apps' notifications, AFAIK. I'm not an iOS developer though - maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.
Comment · 9 months ago
> Have you thought about adding ML-based classification for notifications that are harder to catch with patterns?

Honestly that's a little out my league. The idea did occur to me, but I'm discouraged by the amount of compute required for most ML.

> Also curious about battery impact — how often does it process the notification stream?

The OS sends any new notification to the app (it is a push based approach) automatically. On my own phone, this app currently shows at the bottom of the list in battery usage (<1%).

Comment · 9 months ago
Fair enough, you only have my word on it (that it doesn't send any data to the Internet). But you do have my word :)

Another person requested that the app be open-sourced as well. I will look into that.

Comment · 9 months ago
That's a great suggestion. Perhaps in the next version!
Comment · 9 months ago
Thanks for the heads up! Will take a look at it.

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