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  • Such a great, simple and reliable service. Using it for all sorts of things: nostr push notifications, link sharing between devices, grafana alert notifications.
    by jasonvorhe
  • Been running ntfy in my homelab for several years. Always works great!
    by ozarkerD
  • I used them for some time but their Android app used to drain my battery fast, so I moved on onto a pay-once use forever app (pushover), that works great on my phone, and that supports all of the features that I need for push notifications
    by shellwizard
  • Love this service!

    I use it to send commands and URLs between my devices.

    On Linux you can do `ntfy sub` and on android you can have Tasker react when a ntfy notification arrives based on its title and contents. So on just about all my devices I have a background script running that is subscribed to a "DeviceCommands" channel that checks if the Title of new messages contains the device hostname or not. If it does it triggers a script based on the contents of the body.

    E.g.:

    Title: Pixel8

    Message: https://kagi.com

    Will automatically send the URL to my browser.

    Or:

    Title: LivingRoomPC

    Message: Shutdown

    Will shut down the computer.

    by KetoManx64
  • Not Open Source but I’ve been using https://pushover.net/ for this use case since forever. The website still looks the same as on the day I signed up for it probably more than 10 years ago. Never had an issue and using that in all my scripts or cron jobs.
    by dewey
  • I've been using Gotify [1] for a very long time and have been quite happy with it. Basically no impact on battery life. For devs - there are mature libraries like shoutrr [2] and apprise [3] that let you support multiple notification systems with no extra work.

    1. https://gotify.net/

    2. https://shoutrrr.nickfedor.com/v0.17.0/

    3. https://github.com/caronc/apprise

    by kayson
  • I'm the maintainer of ntfy. Happy to answer questions. Sorry that I'm late to the party :-)
    by binwiederhier
  • I'm a privacy focused self hoster and ntfy was not good enough for me so I created Prism with an optional Android app: https://git.lonecloud.dev/lone-cloud/prism

    The difference: Your phone doesn't get notifications from your notification service directly, but from Mozilla which helps to hide your digital fingerprint of you using a separate notification provider like ntfy. Prism also allows Telegram or Signal to act as a notification distributor. In addition, I use Proton Mail which doesn't really allow custom notification services. Prism has a custom integration to work around that so your proton mail notifications don't have to touch google services.

    by lone-cloud

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