Pushover is a one time purchase and works perfectly. I'm sure you can add more features that make it worthwhile but at this point I don't see why I would use this instead of pushover.
Boy, I really don't know how he feels about the one-time purchases after all this time, but I've been a user of Pushover for almost 9 of the 10 years it's been available, and I absolutely love it.
It's multi-platform, it's dead simple to use in scripts, and I've just about never had any issues, downtime, or need to contact support. It's one of those services that just continues to work and it's an absolute steal at the price.
I hate to talk about it on someone else's Show HN thread, but it's the competition to beat.
I self-host and use ntfy for several use cases on top of just notifications (which it does really well and without fail). I built a clipboard sync tool that uses ntfy as the backend, and use it to control Tasker on my phone from Node Red (things like going into "night mode" when there's no motion in the living areas of my house after a certain time).
Used Gotify for this for a while but ntfy's topics makes separting functionality easier and ntfy supports UnifiedPush without any additional proxy rules.
I'm a fan of the open source project Gotify. I self host it on a small cloud server. https://gotify.net/ Hard to say this closed source app is better than the multiple open source competitors with their own mobile apps
Personally for me it's missing key feature - selectable, custom sounds (already working in Pushover)
This allows to mentally prepare for situations like production down is much more important than home automation done and I want to instantly distinguish between them, not have heart attack every 1h.
Desktop app would be really nice, even in Pushover there is a lack of ability to get notification on my desktop and dismiss them both on desktop and mobile. Only strange web version with separate notification stream.
Price of myNotifier also seems pretty high vs Pushover, considering it doesn't have more features.
We've used Pushover for a long time, and it works great for our SAAS. It's rock solid.
However, what sets this apart in my mind is:
* The web interface. Maybe Pushover has this, but I haven't seen it.
* The MyNotifier web app seems clean and simple.
* MyNotifier would solve a different problem than pushover for me. Pushover wakes me up in the middle of the night when UptimeRobot tells me the site is down. MyNotifier could be a softer/gentler way of collecting important but not critical messages.
At a first glance, it’s really nice and I like the idea but I can get the same service with a mail inbox that will work on virtually every device.
Not saying this have no value because push notifications have other advantages but it costs more than my email provider (Fastmail).
It looks like you are targeting individuals more than businesses so I think your pricing is too high. But hey, N=1 and maybe you already managed to sell it to enough people :)
I paid for Pushover eons ago and it's still working just fine and recently I've been playing with Discord for my notifications. A bunch of self hosted software supports it and it's stupid-easy to use their "webhooks".
Not sure about this one. We were promised flying cars, Level 5 Full Self Driving (FSD) and Robotaxis but instead we have yet another SaSS on something as simple as notifications.
So we are going down the route of making anything we see turned into a SaSS and continuing the subscription griftopia and renting everything; even if it is not solving a problem and when it can be done with existing tools for free; in this case, Telegram, PushBullet or even this: [0].
Meaning your app has its own background service that has to be running with a constant connection to receive notifications from your own servers? How are you doing that on iOS?
