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Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications?
I need a simple service to send push notifications programmatically to my own phone. I don't want to make an entire app, but I am okay with (and know it will likely involve) downloading one. I don't want to use email or SMS. I want something like PagerDuty, but for myself. I want to send an API request and have my phone alert me the next second. Is there such a service?
- mirza_rizvi 5y agoYou can try notin (I think it's for Android only).
- hlesesne 5y agoPushover
- luckman212 5y agoI second this. Been using it for years, easy and reliable.
- Arcsech 5y agoWow, this looks like the perfect answer to the OP’s question. It’s a $5 app, one time purchase, with a simple HTTP API to send notifications. Looks super useful. https://pushover.net/ https://pushover.net/
- michaelwm 5y agoThank you, I started using this yesterday and it works great! Perfectly fits my requirements.
- 3do 5y agoCreate a Telegram channel and send message to this channel through Bot API. I tried this and it's free, flexible and reliable. See: https://stackoverflow.com/a/33862907 https://stackoverflow.com/a/33862907
- cpach 5y agoA Slackbot maybe?
- throwaway537846 5y agoWhy not email? I just call the SES API and I’m immediately notified.
- PenguinCoder 5y agoI've had good usage with gotify, though I believe it is Android only. https://gotify.net/ https://gotify.net/
- mikecoles 5y agoGotify has been working well for me. Uses: Home automation through code red, someone swipes their card at the reader at the door of a building, pages.
- PenguinCoder 5y agoHaven't hooked it up to a badge reader yet. Main use currently is as a garage door alert, have some custom code hooked up to a sensor that alerts on gotify. Just don't want to leave the door open :P Other uses are minor, but like some chat notifications (rocket chat stuff), or major alerts for some of my homelab. Always looking for more uses!
- 97-109-107 5y agoWhile we're on the subject - can anyone provide examples on what purpose you're using notifications for privately?
- jdillaaa 5y agoMatrix server/Element mobile app if you want something that you can host yourself / privacy is a concern. The Synapse Matrix server doesn’t send your message content to any Apple/Matrix.org server, it just tells your phone to download the message from your self-hosted instance. Little more complicated to get setup and maintaining it though (not just a `curl` call )