With ‘Hooks’ you can stay up-to-date on virtually any topic by getting push notifications & chatting with a community of interested people at the exact moment things are happening. The Hooks network has more than 3 million subscribers to a lot of interesting topics, mainly related to tech & entertainment sectors.
The Hooks network has 1000s of notification topics that you can choose from & they can be customized based on time, interests, location…
Currently among the most popular topics are: ‘Daily Curiosity, ‘New film released rated >0 7 points’, ‘PS4 Games with Any Points on Metacritic, ‘The Walking Dead’ new episode has aired… you get the idea. The topics are timely & there’s always something of interest to practically anyone.
Hooks categorizes its topics into the following major areas:
- TV & Movies
- Events
- Weather
- News
- Utilities
- Finance
- Social Media
- Sports
- Music & Games
The startup was founded by Madrid, Spain-based entrepreneur Oleg Kozynenko, who touts Hooks as a Google Alerts alternative that can really help you keep up with all the relevant news in your industry or in virtually any field of interest.
The way to set up alerts with Hooks is pretty straightforward & it focuses on each user’s personal interest, which you can set up & then let Hooks track the info for you & alert you at the precise moment something relevant is posted.
Some examples of things you can track are:
- Track Brand mentions – Stay up-to-date on what is being posted on-line about your brand as it happens: new reviews of your app in the app store, on social media platforms & anywhere on the web
- Follow Social Media by user or by keyword – You’ll get notified of social media conversations from particular users or keywords as they are posted
- Respond ‘live’ & immediately to social media conversations by monitoring your brand
- Get up to date on vulnerabilities to vulnerabilities to software that you use or develop as soon as the vulnerabilities are found, by tracking them by name
- Hooks sends notifications to Slack channels so your team will receive live relevant alerts
Click here to download Hooks on your iOS device.
Click here to download Hooks on your Android device.
– This post is merely a startup profile based on publicly available information & not a review. –
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