🚀 Why I built my own push notification tool for CI/CD and Home Assistant

Short summary

The author built Pulsetray, a SaaS push notification platform with an Android app, web dashboard, and public API, solving the friction of using chat apps or outdated notification services for CI/CD, Home Assistant, and database monitoring. It features persistent searchable history, rich media attachments, customizable source/category filtering, webhook integrations, and a generous free tier. Technical stack: Kotlin/Compose (Android), Node.js/Express/TypeScript (backend), FCM (Firebase), deployed to Vercel and Render.

• •Built Pulsetray as a dedicated push notification service with Android app + web dashboard to replace clunky chat app usage for DevOps/home automation alerts
• •Features include persistent searchable notification history, rich media support, webhook integrations, and profile/device-level permissions
• •Technical stack uses Kotlin, Node.js, Firebase Cloud Messaging; offers free plan with sufficient limits for most users

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