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Work · February 8, 2014

Goatee – Redis, WebSocket notifications in Go

Hey guys and gals! I'm learning Go at the moment and LOVING it. I was hoping to get constructive feedback on a project I'm working on - goatee - which is a notification server that utilizes Redis pub/sub and WebSockets. It's fairly bare-bones at the moment but I'm hoping to add in a lot more features as time goes on such as queueing and WebSocket channel subscriptions (via Go Socketio possibly).

Goatee – Redis, WebSocket notifications in Go launched on February 8, 2014 with 40 votes, #517 of 1,100 launches that month and more than 90% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 12 years on.

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Goatee is a notification server written in Go that combines Redis pub/sub messaging with WebSocket support. It's designed for developers building real-time notification systems who need to push messages to connected clients. The project is currently in early development with plans to add message queueing and WebSocket channel subscriptions.

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A Redis-backed notification server written in Go. Contribute to johnernaut/goatee development by creating an account on GitHub.

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