I've used pushover for years as well. I wish they would charge me $5/y instead of a $5/lifetime. I've asked them to do that. I want this service to last.

I set up Tasker on my phone such that when a specific low-priority (no visible/audible alert) message from pushover, containing only a hash key, is received it picks it up and does an HTTPS request to my self-hosted server to retrieve the actual notification text.

I have a bash/websocat client connected 24/7 to wss://client.pushover.net/ as well that I should probably put up on git for other people.

Thanks, I may have dismissed Pushover simply because it isn't free but a $5 one time purchase is actually not too bad.

+1 for pushover

I’ve been using for quite a fee years. The app is not free but once you pay the one-time fee for the app, they have a generous free tier for personal use, and it has worked quite flawlessly for me so far.

Additionally they support "Critical Alerts" on iOS for when you really need to get a notification regardless of whether or not you've muted your device. Probably something similar is possible on Android as well?

For those who have Pushover account, can check this out [1] Hacker News notification service via Pushover.

[1] https://hnn.avci.me

I'm using Pushover a lot, it exists for a very long time, never changes and just works. It's also very easy to wire it up to existing tools as it can listen to webhooks.

In my case I just did that recently to receive webhooks and send them to my phone: https://blog.notmyhostna.me/posts/push-notifications-from-ap...

Yep. Same for me. Reliable, not subscription based and very easy to integrate. Nothing fancy in a positive manner.

Also pushover fan. I have come to rely on it for critical monitoring alerts, and have not yet experienced failure in many years of use.