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Sending mobile push notifications to yourself

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This can be done via a Telegram bot. Advantages include.

* Completely free, for any number of users. Great if you want i.e. internal notifications in a small, underfunded organization, or even 2FA codes. This might not be the best option security-wise, but has a lot of advantages if you want to prevent intentional account sharing, for example.

* Syncs across all platforms, including your own (the Telegram client API is available free of charge, although it is not easy to use)

* Extremely simple API, to the point of being able to play with it in a browser or via CURL. This is in contrast to the client API, which doesn't even use HTTP and runs on top of custom crypto protocols.

* All the features you might expect from a messaging service, including file attachments, receiving user input (for quickly dealing with alerts from your phone), muting specific notification bots, including for specific amounts of time, full message history etc.

You're completely right.

I was tired of setting up channels and playing around with the telegram/slack API for every new project I started so I just thought I build my own version of it and made it super simple with just one AJAX call.

I have some plans for it and there'll be more features coming in the future.

This is an Ad for a service not opensource or anything

I've used Pushover[1] from command line for years for the one-time cost of the iOS app. Very happy customer.

Example: sleep 100; push "done!"

Where push is my wrapper around curl to their API with the proper keys.

1: https://pushover.net/

I host a gotify (https://gotify.net/) instance for this

Awesome! I'm a little concerned about the pricing though - while lifetime membership sounds great, I'm afraid this could end up something like a "pyramid scheme" where my membership is reliant on revenue from new users to stay alive. I'd much rather pay $5/month or so for something like this.

I definitely see your point. It actually started as a $9/month, but changed it because I myself was getting tired of everything being monthly payments. But it's not the first time I hear your argument and am actually thinking about going back to a monthly fee because people tend to lean more towards it.

I was actually looking for something like this not long ago. Was fed up I could find something easy like this seems to be. I actually went the route of developing micro swiftui app, but the learning curve was big for something so small.

I hope you can use this! :D

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