nfty.sh is a free and open source push notification server. It is self-hostable and works great in my experience.
Since Pushover is a paid application, I would like to see ntfy.sh supported in Lobsters for receiving notifications. As an added benefit, this would double as a web hook since the link entered could be any endpoint that takes JSON.
What do you think about this?
ntfy.sh posts from the past:
ntfy.sh - Open source push notifications via PUT/POST
Zero-cost push notifications to your phone or desktop via PUT/POST
Looking at it, I’m having a hard time imagining what the ideal integration would look like.
Allow self hosting seems like that would possible generate a lot of noise and toil for pushcx via background jobs as the availability of the self-hosted instances would impact them. The hosted option seems to charge more per month than a lifetime to pushover.
The nature of topics being secret urls seems kind of odd. Am I interpreting it correctly that I could subscribe to another party’s notifications if I were to guess their url path?
The noise would be if that self hosted instance generates errors, is it a bug in lobsters? Is it an issue with the self hosted server?
I didn’t notice the smaller print that said one can use it for free, I’m conditioned to free tiers being side by side with the paid tiers so I overlooked it.
The POST can of course be answered with a status code different than 2xx, but that wouldn’t be Lobsters’ responsibility, as long as the body is correct.