A step-by-step guide to self-hosting the Gotify notification service using Docker and PostgreSQL.
Let's also remember that "U.S. officials" now describes MAGA flunkies that replaced actually qualified professionals.
Yeah I was just thinking... this is not at all how the tools work.
As someone who actually approves $$ for tech vendors in an American company, I can tell you that no matter how cheaply China-based services become, they still aren't going to be seriously considered. Anthropic and OpenAI are based out of San Francisco. Legal jurisdiction to resolve contract disputes, breaches of confidentiality, etc. can be resolved in a fairly straightforward way between two American companies, especially when they are headquartered in the same court district.
Chinese companies exist inside of a legal safe harbor where they have less incentive to play by the rules, and a much lower risk of consequences for getting caught breaking them. The risk isn't worth the perceived savings.
It's going to impact American consumers a hell of a lot more.
Think of it more like a push notification server than a messaging platform. You would need a service that sends push notifications to Gotify topics. I get the sense that under the covers it works a lot like MQTT where you have apps publishing messages to topics, and you have consumers (in my case, iGotify app on iOS) that pull those messages off the topic and present them to the user as push notifications.
Though... I think I need a better iOS client than iGotify. It's not actually giving me any push notifications so it's missing the whole point for me.
It's got an open API so really there's a lot more than my own use case.
I'm using it right now for getting notifications from flows in ActivePieces (I don't want to get spammy with my site, which is the link in the original post, but there's a how-to on getting that up and running also... ActivePieces is like a self-hosted Zapier)
/googles "boot licker"
I really wish it were more straightforward to deploy. It would be great to see many more instances popping up.
They will probably charge their customers a subscription for the patch.