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OneSignal Builds Hacker News Notifications With a Little Help From Algolia

What's this blog post about?

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.

Company
Algolia

Date published
June 3, 2016

Author(s)
Guillaume Dumortier

Word count
453

Hacker News points
None found.

Language
English


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