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ntfy

Push notifications via simple HTTP PUT

provisional — pending verificationApache-2.0/GPL-2.0self-hostable

Arete score

5.0 / 5

Autonomy5

Return5

Efficiency5

Transparency5

ἀρετή “AH-reh-tay” — excellence: a thing being good at what it’s for. Mean of the four principle scores. How we score →

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~ Provisional — seeded estimate by a human researcher; full rubric pass pending. Working notes ↓

Why it's listed

ntfy is listed in monitoring, uptime & alerts because it competes on utility: push notifications via simple http put. It's built by an independent, bootstrapped team — no growth-at-all-costs pressure, no ad-tax passed to you. Licensed Apache-2.0/GPL-2.0; pricing: free / cheap cloud. Technically it's lean — it runs comfortably on modest hardware, which is exactly the proof-of-work efficiency we rank for. This entry is provisional — the scores are seeded estimates pending our full manual rubric pass, and the verification date will appear here once complete.

Facts

License: Apache-2.0/GPL-2.0
Pricing: Free / cheap cloud
Funding model: Indie OSS
Self-hostable: Yes — deploy difficulty: easy
Verification: Provisional — scores are seeded estimates pending manual verification

Evidence notes

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Recorded during the rubric pass — every score must carry evidence a stranger could re-check.

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