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Knock | Notifications infrastructure for developers

Mar 17, 2022

After 9 months in private beta, today we are *very* excited to officially launch Knock. TL;DR: We built product notifications so you don’t have to. A quick thread 👇

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Knock is flexible, reliable notifications infrastructure that's built to scale with you. Use our APIs to engage your users, power cross-channel workflows, and manage notification preferences.

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Nothing better than seeing a high ownership culture come to life The team ramps, the product gets better and better, thoughtful details materialize out of nowhere. Such a great feeling

Feb 3

This cuts deep

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Noah Smith

@Noahpinion

Feb 2

I don't need deepfake porn, I need deepfakes of my friends who have kids and careers having enough time to hang out with me like we used to

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This integration with Knock will unlock some really powerful things. Definitely check them out instead of building your own notification system.

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Feb 2

We’re excited to announce our latest email provider integration with @resendlabs, the new email platform for developers.

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We’re excited to announce our latest email provider integration with

@resendlabs

, the new email platform for developers.

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Revisit this text often. You'll learn how it trickles into other aspects of your work - A good writer respects the time of their reader - A good designer respects the time of their user - A good operator respects the time of their team And so it goes

A book I wish I'd read earlier in life: The Elements of Style by Strunk+White Clear writing is clear thinking. No matter what you end up doing in life, it helps to write well

Today we’re excited to announce the official release of our Datadog extension Now it’s easier than ever for engineering teams to monitor their Knock notifications from the tool where they monitor the rest of their stack: Datadog A quick thread 👇

Always a nice surprise when someone asks you for directions on the streets of NYC Nice because of the serendipitous in-person interaction A surprise because manhattan is famous for its easy-to-navigate grid system

Jan 27

Unexpected tasks I dread most as a founder (in ascending order of dread): - opening physical mail - going to a state department's website after opening said mail - calling the state department

Jan 25

Next time you’re trying to cut corners to get something shipped, remember: first to market matters less than being the last left standing Don’t rush quality, reliability, and the foundational decisions that will be with you until the end

Jan 14

“Many big people were chasing me. I didn’t know what to do. So I thought I would surprise them and throw it.” — Miami placekicker Garo Yepremian after a disastrous attempt to throw a pass in SB VII, 50 years ago today RIP king

Shoutout to the team

for this one

A tip for any founders starting out this year: get the builders and founders you admire on your cap table You'll sleep less but you’ll work hard to have good news to share in investor updates each month 😁

It’s like if Figma was down but worse

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The FAA

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Jan 11

Update 3: The FAA is still working to fully restore the Notice to Air Missions system following an outage. The FAA has ordered airlines to pause all domestic departures until 9 a.m. Eastern Time to allow the agency to validate the integrity of flight and safety information.

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Jan 11

A good question for understanding what’s important to you in your work

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Paul Graham

@paulg

Jan 11

Someone asked what the things I've worked on had in common. I could do them alone, or nearly so, instead of needing the permission of bureaucrats. They could be done incrementally, and thus evolve. And they were out of fashion, and thus free of hype and opportunists.

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Jan 7

Woke up wondering whether Jerry ever used this stereo and if so what did he listen to

Datadog support in Knock was another fun one to build. Our customers rely on Knock to reliably time, batch, filter, and send multi-channel notifications (email, SMS, chat, and more) every second of every day. 1/

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Jan 5

Last month we released three exciting product updates in beta:

per-locale template management

support for open and link tracking

Knock + @datadoghq extension

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Jan 5

Good advice for building API-first products If you’re solving a substantial problem, there will be complexity—just make sure it’s all visible to the user It's when complexity becomes implicit within a product that it becomes accidental and a burden to developers

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Greg Brockman

@gdb

Jan 4

Software complexity comes in two forms — fundamental & accidental. The task of a software engineer is to discover & write down the fundamental complexity of a solution to a problem, while inventing the minimal amount of accidental complexity.

Knock 2022: A year in review | Knock

Dec 22, 2022

+ the link to our year in review post

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Here's what happened at Knock this year, from new production customers to what we shipped to support them. Plus, a peek at what's coming in 2023.

A huge thanks to our customers, supporters, and community for a great first year in public. We can’t wait to have you along for the ride in year 2. Until then, from all of us at

… Knock on 🖖

What’s next We'll be back in 2023 doing what we do best: shipping. In the new year you’ll see us get even closer to developer workflows and continue to invest in our notification engine Knock CLI, coming soon to a shell near you

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Product To support those customers, we moved fast and shipped a LOT of product From our end-to-end debugger to Knock Sources to support for 15+ new notification channels—it’s been amazing to see what a nimble, focused team can accomplish 💪

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Customers The best part of shipping product is seeing it deliver value to customers. This year we were proud to earn the trust of great products like

, and

Building a powerful notification system for Vercel with Knock – Vercel

Notifications on Vercel

My last entry of the year for the Knock blog: our 2022 year in review A few highlights 👇

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Dec 22, 2022

What. A. Year. We kicked off 2022 with our public launch. Since then we’ve shipped 35 changelogs & welcomed some exciting customers

Check out our year in review to see what we've been up to + a sneak peek at what's to come in 2023! knock.app/blog/knock-202

just rolled out their new notifications experience in public beta this week, powered by

. Let's take a look behind the scenes at how it's built 👇

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Very excited for my friends

Building a powerful notification system for Vercel with Knock – Vercel

for powering

@vercel

's new notification system!

vercel.com

Notifications on Vercel

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Dec 16, 2022

Some news I’ve been wanting to share for a while: Knock is now powering

@vercel

notifications in production 🚀 The Vercel team has been incredible to work with (as you’d expect) and their feedback has pushed our product to another level LFG

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Dec 16, 2022

When one of your favorite products becomes a customer

Now proudly powering notifications at scale for @Vercel vercel.com/blog/building-

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How US scientists moved one step closer to dream of fusion power

Dec 14, 2022

just noticed the subtle game of life happening in the background of this

404 page. Lovely

The steady march of human knowledge and progress continues. Happy ignition day

ft.com

Energy gain breakthrough raises hopes of eventual abundant zero-carbon source of fuel

Today we celebrated

's 1 year anniversary with team Knock 🎉 Congrats on an incredible first year, Meryl - it's been a blast 🥤🔔

Taco Bell and 6 others

The

swag we need this holiday season

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Dec 8, 2022

Linear Rewind design twitter is coming

Dec 8, 2022

Startup years are like dog years. I just looked at the first changelog we shipped in 2022 and I swear it could have happened seven years ago