I love webhooks - they provide a neat portable layer between services and devices.
Currently I have Growl set up on my desktop computer and run a number of desktop programs that talk to it. I have Growl set up to ping Prowl (previously Notifo, RIP), which in turn does a push notification to my iPhone.
Things like getting an email directly to me, or having something fail my continuous integration build system, or even my son logging onto our home computer hit my iPhone, and it's so damn easy to put together.
I was frustrated with the limitations of IFTTT - I still rely on it for a few things, but just running a simple .net program on my desktop computer that is on all the time gets me 90% of the way there. (Most of my use-cases are "if x happens, I want to know about it", the esoteric [to me] scenarios like saving every gmail to my dropbox or something are not interesting to me).
Currently I have Growl set up on my desktop computer and run a number of desktop programs that talk to it. I have Growl set up to ping Prowl (previously Notifo, RIP), which in turn does a push notification to my iPhone.
Things like getting an email directly to me, or having something fail my continuous integration build system, or even my son logging onto our home computer hit my iPhone, and it's so damn easy to put together.
I was frustrated with the limitations of IFTTT - I still rely on it for a few things, but just running a simple .net program on my desktop computer that is on all the time gets me 90% of the way there. (Most of my use-cases are "if x happens, I want to know about it", the esoteric [to me] scenarios like saving every gmail to my dropbox or something are not interesting to me).