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by aureianimus 923 days ago
Add-on story:

I joined binwiederhier for a while in developing Syncany and he invited me for an internship at his current employer.

The experience I gained both in contributing to Syncany and said internship helped me indirectly land the role I'm currently in, and my open source experience in general helped me land a cool engagement where I got to do some innovative open source projects.
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binwiederhier 923 days ago
Oh man, Pim! What a small world. I looooved working with you on Syncany, and I tried so hard to recruit you hehe. I looked you up on LinkedIn the other day and it looks like you're doing amazingly.

Ping me and we'll chat if you like. I'm working on a new open source project [1] that needs your help, hehe.

[1] https://ntfy.sh

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comatoast 922 days ago
I saw CT and I was like "hmm I wonder where in CT" and then I noticed the username. I kinda sorta know you IRL, so definitely a small world :D (worked at the same CT company) First time I recognized someone on HN so I have an uncontrollable urge to tell someone.
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binwiederhier 922 days ago
It has happened to me a few times, and it's really odd. Hi dude! :wave:
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avhception 922 days ago
Looks great, what differentiates ntfy.sh from https://pushover.net/ ?
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binwiederhier 922 days ago
Pushover is fantastic, and if you are happy with it, then stick with it :-) I've never used Pushover, so I don't actually know all that well.

However, ntfy is 100% open source so you can self-host it if you like, and I believe it does have a bunch of features that Pushover does not (email notifications, email publishing, scheduled delivery, tags/emojis, phone calls, icons, ... see for yourself: https://docs.ntfy.sh/publish/). I'm sure ntfy is missing things too that Pushover has. I'll let you be the judge of it.

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avhception 922 days ago
Self-hosting it does indeed sound intriguing! Looked through your Github repos and pcopy looks really interesting, too.

Is your name a reference to that Grönemeyer song, btw? ;)

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binwiederhier 922 days ago
pcopy is quite abandoned but it still works. ;-)

And yes, it's a reference to the song. Good catch. I was listening to it 20 years ago or something like that when I had to come up with a new username. And it stuck. ;-)

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siddharthalodha 921 days ago
fellow selfhosted ntfy user. fantastic product.
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