Ha! I made something similar with a Telegram bot :)
Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
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So, any nice topics? ;)
There are two useful public topics: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#public-topics - https://ntfy.sh/announcements for announcements (usually only release announcements) - https://ntfy.sh/stats for daily stats (right before midnight UTC) Note that messages are only cached for 12h server-side, so you'll not see any messages in there mostly. I suggest to just subscribe and see if you like getting these messages.
Am I understand right that with the knowledge of the topic name I can also publish announcement messages into that "official" topic?
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#253I'm not a hater, I am genuinely curious, how does something like this get to 800 votes on HN and 4.4K stars on GitHub? I mean, it's just... a pub/sub server... using HTTP? With a thin UI for web/mobile? I'm obviously missing something, so what is it? Again, not a hater, even though it may come off like I am, I'm just honestly wondering what makes this special. From first glance it seems like something most devs can h…
It is small, simple and does the job. Also seems to have good documentation.
What is there not to love about that?
Do you know something better that fills the same gap?
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#254I use Opsgenie for most of the same use cases as this application. They have a free tier too. I keep my alert volumes very low.
Could you share a link to an explanation of how you use Opsgenie this way? Thanks!
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If I were to run my own personal instance of this that cost would be quite high. A free Oracle Cloud VM or $5 Digital Ocean droplet would be the way I go.
If I go by $50/hour salary on average for developer, if someone saves 20 minutes per month on average using AWS, it is worth it.
If it's a single EC2 instance and not using any other AWS services, I fail to see the difference between Hetzner, DigitalOcean or AWS.
That being said, it's probably not worth migrating to another provider at this point.
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https://ntfy.sh/docs/faq/#what-are-the-uptime-guarantees I guarantee for nothing, since this is a spare time project. That said, I have had zero outages in 11 months, see https://ntfy.statuspage.io/ When it outgrows the single EC2 instance, I'll likely start building some distributed thingy to spread the load and do some HA things (sounds like fun). Probably just a load balancer and 2-3 instances with a rqlite backen…
Start providing it (reliability/HA) and turn it into an actual business :-) It'd be a lot more fun than getting a principle position
As an engineer that also builds fun things that a lot of people use:
> turn it into an actual business :-) It'd be a lot more fun
Not only could it _not_ be more fun, but it might actually suck all the existing fun out of it completely. But the OP will know better about that!
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#257I use this with unified push for Element and Fedilab on LineageOS. It's pretty reliable about pushing new notifications out, but I wish Element used it better for dismissing notifications when I real a message on another client.
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It's not the sending the messages that has me stumped, it's the setup of the server (the hosting of it itself). Do you know of a public service that exists i could build/test the Apprise plugin against? Would love just even temporary access to a server to perfect its design (then my account could be terminated)
You don't need to host a Mastodon instance yourself. Plenty of them are open for registration :) e.g https://masto.ai/ or https://fosstodon.org
Thank you! I feel silly for asking when the answer really was right there in my face. I was able to sign up with a service. Apprise will hopefully have Mastodon support next!
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#259Another alternative: you can send notifications to your phone through text messages. Text messages are compatible with email, usually in the form of @ .
Interesting. Please elaborate.
Very neat. I just searched and if you have Verizon it's possible via @vtexts.com don't put dashes in your phone number.
You can read more about it below. https://www.verizon.com/about/news/vzw/2013/06/computer-to-p...
Re: Ntfy.sh – Send push notifications to your phone via PUT/POST
#260Another alternative: you can send notifications to your phone through text messages. Text messages are compatible with email, usually in the form of @ .
Interesting. Please elaborate.
Not OP but, for a while you could email a message to 5559991212@verizon.net and it would send a text to the phone number 555-999-1212. Not sure if it still works that way though.