Deadline for Mac (and GitHub Hooks)

21 Apr 2009 | Tags programming deadline

Deadline is a reminder web app I made. It sends out alerts through SMS, email and IM, and now it works with Mac OS too. I spent this weekend building a Mac cocoa app for it that integrates with Growl. You can download it here: DeadlineGrowl

Deadline also works with GitHub: Deadline: Notification API and GitHub support. It uses post-receive hooks to grab commit messages and notify you through your preferred notification method.

I really like the idea of hook URLs. Deadline has a generic notification API (it’s just a GET to a URL) you could use to notify your users about events in your apps. If you’re interested in using this, or using Deadline’s API for a project, let me know and I’ll give you a hand.