Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications?

Posted by michaelwm on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.

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?

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by 3do on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:15AM (#28096833)

Create 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

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by jdillaaa on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:24PM (#28124277)

Matrix 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 )

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by PenguinCoder on Saturday August 07, 2021 @04:25PM (#28101528)

I've had good usage with gotify, though I believe it is Android only.

https://gotify.net/

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by mikecoles on Monday August 09, 2021 @03:15PM (#28121084)

Gotify 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.

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by PenguinCoder on Monday August 09, 2021 @04:41PM (#28122095)

Haven'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!

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by hlesesne on Saturday August 07, 2021 @12:17AM (#28095647)

Pushover

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by Arcsech on Saturday August 07, 2021 @09:18PM (#28103379)

Wow, 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/

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by michaelwm on Monday August 09, 2021 @09:18AM (#28116386)

Thank you, I started using this yesterday and it works great! Perfectly fits my requirements.

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by luckman212 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:26AM (#28099267)

I second this. Been using it for years, easy and reliable.

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by 97-109-107 on Monday August 09, 2021 @05:51AM (#28114580)

While we're on the subject - can anyone provide examples on what purpose you're using notifications for privately?

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by throwaway537846 on Saturday August 07, 2021 @11:14AM (#28099148)

Why not email? I just call the SES API and I’m immediately notified.

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by mirza_rizvi on Friday August 06, 2021 @07:22PM (#28093943)

You can try notin (I think it's for Android only).

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Re:Ask HN: Good tool to send personal notifications? by cpach on Saturday August 07, 2021 @07:28AM (#28097732)

A Slackbot maybe?

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