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SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

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Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#21

Maybe I'm just dense but is there a sample curl somewhere for how to send something to the API URL I just got in my signal chat with BotMaster.1000?

The curl command on the homepage? curl -d 'something'

The URL that botmaster gave you is a page that lists your API endpoints (multiple if you have invited the bot to any group chats)

Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#24

Seems interesting but it looks like some cli with web server running on someone else's machine, so basically no security, no encryption. Also probably this bot have an access to your entire chat history.

The bot has access to any sent messages to yourself, plus any chatter in group chats if you have enabled that. So don't use it for sensitive stuff, and use a dedicated group. It was developed to relay sensor data and such, not war plans.

Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#25
post #18

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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What damages are the courts referring to?

I couldn't really find any details about any of these cases. Some of the names there too are pretty strange like "Tobaccopedia" and "Kraft LLC vs Kraft ULC". ULCs (as far as I know) are a Canadian thing and I highly doubt I can just go an open a company called "Cocacola ULC" in Canada?

Those examples look like LLM generated nonsense, though correct me if I'm wrong.

The example usually taught in school for this sort of thing is the trademark for Aspirin. Aspirin is a Bayer brand name for acetylsalicylic acid, but Bayer didn't defend its trademark in most of the world. In most countries (including the US) courts ruled that Aspirin is a generic term and anybody could use it. That's not the case for say Tylenol (acetaminophen) or Advil (ibuprofen) for example.

Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#26
post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

GP is presumably asking what their plans are once the service gets popular, runs into the ratelinit, and cannot send any notifications at all (or with significant delays) to the clients.

Messaging is internally rate limited and capped per recipient. And it uses a sender pool.

I use per-recipient internal rate limiting too, that alone is not enough, especially for new numbers. I'm not using a sender pool though.

Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#28
post #23

Not working for me. Even with a Houthi alert.

Contact me via the support link?

You built this? Would you like to comment what your future plans are?

Your self-description is "entrepreneur love for automation". Is it fair to assume that if this takes off then you are planning to introduce paid plans (perhaps with some revenue sharing with the signal folks to lift rate limits for you)?

Re: SignalBotOne – Notification Webhooks for Signal

#29

Who is behind this and how does it work? Why is this information not present on the front page? And why does somebody who thinks people would start using and relying on it not immediately understand that that's important information?

pretty clear to me.

>Who is behind this

SignalBot − built by gwillem © 2025

contact (link to a signal group)

>and how does it work?

"Receive messages on Signal via a simple API. Perfect for notifications and alerts."

"curl -d ' Houthi alert' https://signalbot.one/api/..."

If you don't know what "API" or "webhooks" are, then you're probably not the target audience. That's fine. Your aunt probably doesn't know what an "enterprise workload engine"[1] is, but that doesn't mean vmware needs to provide a dumbed down description so everyone can understand.

https://www.vmware.com/products/cloud-infrastructure/vsphere

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