In this week’s reminder that “you can just build things now”, I got tired of waiting till January for my iPhone Duo order, and I didn’t want to spend $30 for alerts on a website, so I made a tool to get alerts for iPhone Duo for in-store pick-up.
Unfortunately for my wallet, it worked.
I adapted from a couple other existing repos out there, and cleaned things up so you could, in theory, point your agent at this repo, prep the free ntfy app (sends push notifications), keep a machine with NodeJS running (or use Cloudflare; free tier should work), and you should be able to get fairly up-to-date notifications whenever the local Apple Store has a Duo of your choice in stock.
Check it out at this GitHub repo (point your agent at it).
You still need some level of tech knowledge to set it up, but if you’ve tried just a bit of agentic building, it should be doable! Let me know if you need help setting it up, and I can yell at my agent some more to make the instructions clearer.
You really can just build things now.
My new agentic coding setup with the Logitech Keys to Go 2 and the Amp iOS app. I nearly don’t need a laptop now!
To discuss, or if you feel compelled to press some kind of reaction button, feel free to comment on the LinkedIn version of this post.