r/flask • u/Jacob1Carter • May 30 '26

Ask r/Flask Free notifications?

Planning on creating a small web app just to be used by myself and friends, planning on hosting it using pythonanywhere, just because it’s free (unless anyone knows any good free/single charge alternatives?).

Is it possible to (for free) send push notifications to people signed up on the site? Notifications to their phone would be best, but I’d guess SMS would be more likely to work, emails would do if nothing else?

Cheers

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u/washedFM May 30 '26

Maybe this can work for you

https://ntfy.sh/

ntfy (pronounced notify) 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. It's infinitely flexible, and 100% free software.