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Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

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Re: Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

#6
agreed that this is a cool project, am a bit (just a wee bit) bummed about the express dependency.

I've never used the Push API but look forward to it, and I appreciate this post for putting this tech back on my radar. I can envision a lot of cool self-hosted projects based on it

Re: Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

#8
post #5

This is cool. There was an old post here about one called patchbay (IIRC) then I made one called httpubsub (go, quick and dirty). I'm using one called ntfy.sh now; it's good; has all the use-case & app and stuff. Self hostable FTW.

Ntfy is phenomenal. I love having my own compiled app for the background notifications on a self-hosted instance. It's so easy to hook any update or alerts I want into and get it delivered to any of my devices.

Also, a really nifty cross-platform clipboard.

Re: Show HN: Ahey – A simple pub-sub service built on top of web push

#9
This is nice, but I wonder about the actual use cases of such a service, given the very loose permissions:

1. Anyone can subscribe to a channel 2. Any registered user can publish to a channel 3. Only registered users can publish to their personal channel (@username)

The second point in particular is problematic. I don't want to add notifications to my app, only to have a script kiddie use is to spam my users.

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