What does HackerNews think of ntfy?

Hello folks, I posted here about ntfy before, but since my last post it's been a loooong time, so I thought I'd give an update to this fantastic community.

ntfy is a a tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone from any script or server using a simple HTTP PUT/POST requests. It's 100% open source and self-hostable, and has an Android/iOS app and a web app.

You can use ntfy like this (more in the docs: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/). This will send a notification to your phone:

   curl -d "Backup on $(hostname) complete" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I host free and open version on ntfy.sh, but you can host your own of course.

New stuff

- Phone call notifications: https://ntfy.sh/docs/publish/#phone-calls, here's an example call: https://docs.ntfy.sh/static/audio/ntfy-phone-call.mp3

- Prometheus metrics: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#monitoring, with Grafana dashboard template

- Access tokens: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#access-tokens for logged in users

- Brand new website: https://ntfy.sh with live notification counter

- Official support in healthchecks.io, Uptime Kuma, Radarr, Sonarr, Shoutrrr, Gatus, and many more (see https://docs.ntfy.sh/integrations/)

- User tiers: https://docs.ntfy.sh/config/#tiers with different rate limits per tier

- ...

If you like video tutorials, here's YouTuber Kris [explaining ntfy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9EcWrsjE20).

Other links:

- ntfy website: https://ntfy.sh/

- ntfy web app: https://ntfy.sh/app

- GitHub (server): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

- GitHub (Android): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy

- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.heckel.ntfy/

- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cT7ECsZj9w

- Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#ntfy:matrix.org

Public topics:

- https://ntfy.sh/stats (daily stats scraped from nginx logs)

- https://ntfy.sh/announcements (release announcements)

ntfy [1] would work for you entirely in the LAN, if you self-host the server and the phones are connected to the same Wifi. It'll only work for Android phones though, since iOS forces APNS for push notifications.

ntfy is also a distributor for UnifiedPush, so you're not entirely off topic here. Hehe.

Disclaimer: I am the maintainer of ntfy.

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

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I am an experienced software engineer, team/project lead and software architect. I've designed and implemented a variety of highly scalable software systems, across many platforms and languages. My preferred language is Go (Golang), but I am proficient in many others.

Outside of work, I dedicate most of my time to my family, but I also enjoy writing open source software. Currently, I am working on a push notification tool called ntfy (3.3k stars, https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy).

Have been working at ntfy.sh for about a year now, and it's a ton of fun: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

It's a a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, entirely without signup or cost. It's also open source if you want to run your own.

You can use it like this (more in the docs: https://ntfy.sh/docs/):

   curl -d "hi from HN" ntfy.sh/mytopic

It's 100% not-for-profit and always-just-for-fun.

I'm building ntfy [0], an open source push notification service with a dead simple REST API. You can basically push messages to your phone via curl or any script. No sign up, no cost, no API keys.

Motivation is: I always wanted it and it was fun to build. I since learned Kotlin (for the Android client), Swift (for the iOS client), and React (for the web client). It's awesome to learn so many technologies. Fun!

[0] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

A CLI tool that can be used to observe and act on the return code and/or output of any CLI tool on Linux. It should have a way to notify [1] the user after a long-running CLI program terminates on Linux.

It would have similar semantics to the time utility. Let's call this tool timed.

For instance, prefixing any task with the time utility e.g. "time dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" would output the duration of the underlying task.

Similarly, executing "timed dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb" would send a notification to the user when the task completes containing the return code and any console output.

1: Paired with something like https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy. This would allow a user to set up multiple ways to receive the notification, including Telegram/Slack, SMS, push notification, email or simply just turning console outputs into a continuous audio note similar to http://listen.hatnote.com/

Since you asked; My most used is ntfy [1] - It provides push notifications for pretty much anything and everything and can be easily integrated. It's used by a ton of selfhosters already, and I'm trying to make it better every day.

(Disclaimer: I wrote it.)

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

Hello friends, I posted here about ntfy before (https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29715464 for previous discussion), but I've added a ton of features, so I thought I'd share some updates.

For those who don't know, ntfy is a a tool that lets you send push notifications to your phone from any script or server using a simple HTTP PUT/POST requests. It's 100% open source and self-hostable, and has an Android app and a web app.

You can use it like this (more in the docs):

   curl -d "Backup on $(hostname) complete" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I host free and open version on ntfy.sh, but you can host your own of course.

Since my last post, I added the following features: Publish messages as JSON, custom user actions via action buttons, ntfy:// deep links, ntfy support in Apprise (thanks to @caronc), translations into 13 languages in the web app and Android app, lots of example usages, e.g. with NodeRED, Gatus, Sonarr, Radarr; a super cool chat-style message bar in the web app, and more.

I am happy to answer any and all questions, and I'd love some feedback or new ideas.

Links:

- ntfy website: https://ntfy.sh/

- ntfy web app: https://ntfy.sh/app

- GitHub (server): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

- GitHub (Android): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy

- F-Droid: https://f-droid.org/en/packages/io.heckel.ntfy/

- Discord: https://discord.com/invite/cT7ECsZj9w

- Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/#ntfy:matrix.org

Hey there, I've been working really hard to make a tool that lets you PUT/POST messages directly to your phone, as push notifications. It's open source [1] and has an Android app [2,3]. It can be self-hosted as well, but I host a free version of it on ntfy.sh [4].

Right now there is no CLI, it just works with curl or any other HTTP client, like so:

   curl -d "Hey, I can send messages to my phone" ntfy.sh/alerts

And those messages will show up on your phone as notifications. Screenshot: https://imgur.com/a/zXshsjM

Happy to answer any and all questions, and I' d love some feedback.

[1] GitHub (server): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[2] GitHub (Android app): https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

[3] Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy

[4] Website: https://ntfy.sh/

Great work and article.

I feel compelled to mention my recent very related project: ntfy.sh -- it's also written in Go, has a web UI, and Android app, and uses SSE to communicate with the browser. It allows you to send notifications to the browser with PUT/POST requests.

Links:

https://ntfy.sh/

https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

Hey folks, I made a simple HTTP based pub sub service that you can use to send notifications to your phone via PUT/POST, e.g. via curl like this:

   curl -d "Backup failed" ntfy.sh/mytopic

It's open source and has an Android app too. Currently you can self-host the server. The Android app only supports "ntfy.sh" so far due to some Android limitations, but if you guys are interested I can add support for self-hosted servers too.

Android app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=io.heckel.ntfy

Server GitHub: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

Android app GitHub: https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android

I've been working on a HTTP based pub sub service that's free and open source for funsies. It's written in Go. [0] you can use it like this:

$ curl -d "Backup failed" ntfy.sh/mytopic

I also made an Android app for it which let's you receive messages on subscribed topics as notifications. It was a ton of fun building. I can't believe how much I liked learning Kotlin. The app is also open source and is pending review in the Play Store. If anyone would like to be a tester shoot me a message [1]

[0] https://ntfy.sh and https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy

[1] https://github.com/binwiederhier/ntfy-android