HACKER Q&A
📣 michaelwm

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?

  👤 3do Accepted Answer ✓
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

👤 jdillaaa
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 )

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

https://gotify.net/

👤 hlesesne
Pushover
👤 97-109-107
While we're on the subject - can anyone provide examples on what purpose you're using notifications for privately?
👤 throwaway537846
Why not email? I just call the SES API and I’m immediately notified.
👤 mirza_rizvi
You can try notin (I think it's for Android only).
👤 cpach
A Slackbot maybe?