BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky

BlueNotify is a free app that gives you notifications when your friends post on Bluesky! You can customize exactly what type of posts you want notifications for, and even filter out certain keywords. It's free for IOS, Android, and your browser. Links in my bio.

For those of you who had issues where bluesky's built in post notifications didn't take you to the post, that should be fixed now!

rip in pease 🥹

Bluesky officially has post notifications! BlueNotify will continue to operate for the foreseeable future, but for those of you who don't like having a separate app, now you don't need to have it.

Everything is back to normal! I'm still not sure what the source of the networking issue was, but it was a great fire drill and BlueNotify is running on the original server again. As far as I can tell, zero notifications were lost despite the issues!

The most appropriate way to learn about this baby was via BlueNotify

Just pushed out a server update that should speed up notifications for posts from popular users. Hank replies in particular used to take up to a minute to send notifications for to everyone, now they should go out in a few seconds!

New BlueNotify update v1.2.3! - now you can add "Required words" and "Blocked Words" to fine tune which posts you get notifications for - better UI when you have multiple accounts - fixed a handful of errors that certain users were experiencing

BLUENOTIFY IS POPPING OFF TONIGHT

Omg the notification app sends pictures! Thanks #bluenotify

Bluesky's jetstream is back online. BlueNotify notifications will continue going out (and the system is processing the backlog so no notification should be missed!)

New update for BlueNotify- iPhones and web users should now see their notification history like android, and you should start seeing images in your notifications! The edit notifications tab should also be faster, along with a lot of other little improvements.

Just switched over to a whole new backend system for notifications. You shouldn't notice any difference whatsoever (in fact, the new system should be faster and more reliable!) but if you do see anything weird going on with your BlueNotify notifications, let me know!

Bluenotify's server crashed again last night (it's always while I'm sleeping!), so there were a few hours where notifications weren't being sent out. It's back to normal now, and I'm currently testing a complete rewrite of the code that should be more robust and resistant to outages like this!

BlueNotify should now give you notification sound and vibration on iPhones! To disable, swipe your notification to the left, tap "Options", and go to "View Settings", and turn off the "Sounds" toggle.

Bluenotify had an outage for about an hour and a half this morning while I was sleeping - it turns out the recent influx of users took down the $4 a month server I was paying for, and I've upgraded to a $7 a month server with twice as much CPU. Everything should be running smoothly again now!

New Bluesky users! Want a way to get notifications when your favorite accounts post? BlueNotify is on the App Store and Google Play Store. It’s free from @austinwitherspoon.com and funded by me!

Anybody who is interested is welcome to test out the new web version of BlueNotify if you're on a computer and don't want to download the app on your phone! This should work, but I haven't tested it for very long. DM me if you have any issues. web.bluenotify.app

Maintenance was successful, BlueNotify is back online!

BlueNotify will be offline shortly. Should be less than five minutes. If you use bluenotify notifications for anything critical, please be aware to manually check bluesky for the next half an hour. Will post a follow up when server maintenance is completed!

BlueNotify is now publicly available on Android! Next up, see if I can get a chrome extension/web version working! play.google.com/store/apps/d...

I've applied for release on the google play store! Final stretch before it'll be publicly available! (You can still join early by DMing me)

@bluenotify.app currently has about 1000 users and sends about 5000 notifications per day, which is wild to me considering the android version isn't even out of beta! I'm frankly shocked the notification server (running in my garage 😬) has ran for a week without breaking

Android users: DM me for access to the beta testing group!