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Products that do what Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go does

Hi HN, I built Boop because I wanted application events sent directly to my phone without paying for another service or routing everything through Slack or Telegram. Boop is a small, open-source server paired with an open-source iOS app. The server currently uses around 8 MB of memory on my machine. It’s deliberately not an observability platform or a replacement for Sentry. It receives events from your applications, sends native push notifications, and keeps them in a purpose-built mobile inbox. I use Elixir, so I built an integration for ErrorTracker. ErrorTracker still captures and stores…

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    Boop136

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    Feature rich, high volume notifications with deep analytics

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    Beep Boop142

    Ridiculously simple hosting platform for Slack bots.

    2016

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    BOOP94

    Charming new connections & dates

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    PushPro132

    Send Push Notifications from any website to mobile devices

    2019

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    Alerty96

    Send yourself push notifications from your apps and servers

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    http://boopapp.com/ I made boop with a friend; an experimental ephemeral messaging app. Here's the official explanation I wrote: Boops are self destructing animated text messages. Boops display one word at a time, so the recipient can’t screenshot them. Throw in emoji and you can create animations called Boopmations. Have fast, back and forth private animated text chats with anyone. Boops delete themselves as soon as you read them, so there’s no history of your private chats. It's the first version so it's fairly raw, but during beta testing it proved really popular. It seems…

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    PushPro 2108

    Push notifications from websites to mobiles - no app needed

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    A powerful push notification testing tool for developers

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    Create, Subscribe, Notify All in One Place

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    Booyah190

    A super fast video chat for WhatsApp friends and groups

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    MagicPush249

    Easy and affordable push notifications for web-apps

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    A free push notification tool to re-engage users

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    Push Chat113

    Your decentralized, uncensorable & web3-native chat solution

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    Authpush186

    Easy push notifications for everyone

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    Pusha135

    Send push notifications from your desktop or web application

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    dumppp86

    .5s capture app that sends your notes straight into Notion

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    Easily send custom notifications to all your devices

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    Developer-driven chat done simply.

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    Hoy100

    Send push notifications to friends with just a button push

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    Test iOS push notifications

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    One-time end-to-end encrypted anonymous chats

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