Today, I (the guy behind Overpush ) am thrilled to announce the launch of 📨🚕, a new platform that hosts Overpush for you and helps you push notifications from just about anything to just about anywhere.
If you’ve ever wanted to notify yourself (or your devices, friends, robot army, or pet project) when something happens — 📨🚕 is for you.
So… What Is 📨🚕?
📨🚕 is a multi-protocol push notification router. You post to it via a webhook URL and it flings that data to your configured targets (aka messaging services like XMPP, Matrix, Telegram, and more soon). It’s the missing glue between your code and your notification channels, whether that’s your smart home, your CI pipeline, your RPG guild’s Matrix room, or just your phone at 3AM when your server falls over (again).
Tl;dr:
Push notifications from anything, to anything.
A Little Rough Around the Edges
I’m going to call this a soft launch, which is startup-speak for “Please be gentle, we’re still duct-taping the to whole thing together”.
Here’s what’s live right now:
- The web console which lets you create and manage your applications
- The webhooks endpoint, including the Pushover-compatible
/1/messages.jsonroute - Very crude custom templating
- Support for initial targets: XMPP, Matrix, Telegram, Mastodon
That’s it for now. It works. It’s relatively stable. And it’s yours to try.
More targets are coming as fast as I can code and test them without catching fire.
Who Is 📨🚕 For?
Right now the main audience are the more tech-savvy people like developers, who want to build cool stuff that talks to any of the supported targets, sysadmins who need alerts from servers or monitoring tools, chat nerds who want better integrations with niche platforms, and tinkerers who want a universal “notify me” pipe for their weird stack.
It’s especially for you if you’re tired of closed ecosystems, limited APIs, or SaaS products that remove features and triple their pricing on a Tuesday.
Free as in Free Beer.
Speaking about pricing, right now, 📨🚕 is completely free. No catches. No upsells. No credit card required. Use it, break it, suggest improvements, yell at me in a support ticket, it’s all fair game. Well, maybe don’t yell.
I don’t have any plans to monetize the service. Unless popularity goes through the roof and I can still manage to pay for the infrastructure out of my own pocked it’ll stay like that. If you’d like to support me I won’t stop you, though.
Having that said, I would like to discourage industrial-strength misuse of the service and I’ll shut such behavior down as soon as I notice it. Don’t spoil the platform for everyone involved because you think it’s a fun idea to pipe NASDAQ’s real-time data stream to your XMPP account via 📨🚕.
Tl;dr: If your app starts sending millions of messages a day to hundreds of targets, I will reach out to you and ask you to contribute to the infrastructure costs. Nicely. Probably with a GIF.
Everyone else? Keep using it for free.
Why It’s Cool (and Getting Cooler)
- Dead-simple webhook API: Just POST and go
- Pushover-compatible mode: Simply change your endpoint
- Custom templating to support even the weirdest payloads
- No nonsense, no gatekeeping
- Built around open-source :-)
This is just the beginning. 📨🚕 is going to get much more powerful — and more fun — over the coming months.
What You Can Do Right Now
Head over to the console and register yourself an account. Then set up an application and hook it up to a webhook source. Bask in the glory of beautifully routed notifications from your source webhook to your preferred target platform.
Tell Me What You Need
As much as this is a launch post, it’s also an invitation:
Tell me what you need! What targets do you want? What annoys you? What would make 📨🚕 your favorite tool instead of just a convenient one? Write me an email and let me know what you think!
Thanks for being here. Thanks for trying it out. And thanks (in advance) for not DDoS-ing the service just yet.
Cheers,
マリウス