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24 alternatives to Boop – tiny, self-hosted push notifications for your apps built in Go
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…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Boop▲136A scriptable scratchpad for developers. Free & open source!
2020 · boop.okat.best · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! I’m proud to share that we have built a real 3rd party iMessage client for Android. We did it by reverse engineering the iMessage protocol and encryption system. It's available to download today (no waitlist): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.beeper.ima and there's a technical writeup here: https://blog.beeper.com/p/how-beeper-mini-works. Unlike every other attempt to build an iMessage app for Android (including our first gen app), Beeper Mini does not use a Mac server relay in the cloud. The app connects directly to Apple…
2023 · beeper.com · its alternatives →
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Send push notifications to your phone or desktop using PUT/POST - binwiederhier/ntfy
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Beep Boop▲142Ridiculously simple hosting platform for Slack bots.
2016 · beepboophq.com · its alternatives →
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Feature rich, high volume notifications with deep analytics
2019 · its alternatives →
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SSH terminal, files and database manager, one time purchase
May 2026 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Get the most popular messaging services, all in a single app. WhatsApp, Signal, Instagram, Telegram, and more.
2021 · beeperhq.com · its alternatives →
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Send your iOS notifications to your Mac
2015 · pushpal.arjones.com · its alternatives →
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Alerty▲96Send yourself push notifications from your apps and servers
2023 · alerty.dev · its alternatives →
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A push notification server written in Go (Golang). - appleboy/gorush
2017 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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…
2014 · its alternatives →
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Push Express▲104A powerful push notification testing tool for developers
2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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2012 · airgramapp.com · its alternatives →
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ntfy is a simple HTTP-based pub-sub notification service. It allows you to send notifications to your phone or desktop via scripts from any computer, and/or using a REST API.
2022 · ntfy.sh · its alternatives →
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A free push notification tool to re-engage users
2021 · wordpress.org · its alternatives →
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Push Chat▲113Your decentralized, uncensorable & web3-native chat solution
2023 · app.push.org · its alternatives →
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Send native push notifications with a simple unified API
2019 · ably.com · its alternatives →
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