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by miki123211 1665 days ago
This can be done via a Telegram bot. Advantages include.

* Completely free, for any number of users. Great if you want i.e. internal notifications in a small, underfunded organization, or even 2FA codes. This might not be the best option security-wise, but has a lot of advantages if you want to prevent intentional account sharing, for example.

* Syncs across all platforms, including your own (the Telegram client API is available free of charge, although it is not easy to use)

* Extremely simple API, to the point of being able to play with it in a browser or via CURL. This is in contrast to the client API, which doesn't even use HTTP and runs on top of custom crypto protocols.

* All the features you might expect from a messaging service, including file attachments, receiving user input (for quickly dealing with alerts from your phone), muting specific notification bots, including for specific amounts of time, full message history etc.

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You're completely right.

I was tired of setting up channels and playing around with the telegram/slack API for every new project I started so I just thought I build my own version of it and made it super simple with just one AJAX call.

I have some plans for it and there'll be more features coming in the future.