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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 11/07/2025

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!

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Cody Bromley @codybrom.com · 08/07/2025

rip in pease 🥹

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 07/07/2025

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.

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 04/06/2025

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.

Screenshot of BlueNotify's Edit Notifications tab, featuring separate options for each user's notifications such as Post, Repost, Reply to somebody you follow, reply to anybody, and required or blocked words.

Screenshot of a bluenotify post notification.

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 23/05/2025

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 23/05/2025

For the past two hours, most notifications on BlueNotify weren't sending. Sorry for the sudden burst of notifications! All missed notifications were sent all at once when I brought the system back online. It looks like no notifications were missed in the process.

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Tori ✨ @tori.dftba.social · 23/04/2025

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

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 23/04/2025

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 15/04/2025

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

Screenshot of BlueNotify with a Pop-up titled "Edit Required Words" where you can add words that must be in a post in order to trigger a notification

Screenshot of BlueNotify on the "Edit Notification Settings" tab, with a new "required Words" and "blocked words" option below the normal options

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

BLUENOTIFY IS POPPING OFF TONIGHT

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Sofa King @greatsofaking.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Omg the notification app sends pictures! Thanks #bluenotify

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 25/03/2025

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!)

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 25/03/2025

Bluesky's jetstream (live API feed of all posts) is currently offline, so BlueNotify notifications will be delayed until it comes back. Interestingly there was a HUGE spike in posts right before it happened. I'm curious if there was some attack on bluesky's infrastructure that did it.

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 24/03/2025

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.

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 10/03/2025

Android users who were having issues tapping notifications, it turns out the issue was related to Google Play Services "proxying" notifications before sending them to a code library BlueNotify was using. I've applied a workaround that should have fixed the issue permanently!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 03/03/2025

Users who had issues where tapping notifications didn't open the bluesky app: I spent all weekend troubleshooting and the bug appears to come from a service google has for handling notifications. I was able to add a workaround that makes notifications tappable again for you!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 28/02/2025

I'm trying to investigate a number of reports of notifications not working on BlueNotify but can't recreate them on my devices! If you use BlueNotify it would be a BIG help if you could reply to this with: - Your phone model - Your Android/IOS version - if you're having issues opening notifications

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 19/02/2025

The "Reply to somebody you follow" feature will no longer work if you follow more than 10,000 people Some extreme users following tens of thousands of users were clogging up the pipes and preventing notifications from going out For those users the other options including "Reply" will still work

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 15/02/2025

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 12/02/2025

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 05/02/2025

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.

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 24/01/2025

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 19/01/2025

All BlueNotify code is open source, you can view the code for the main app here: github.com/austinwither... And for the backend servers here: github.com/austinwither... If you have any concerns about what data the app tracks, feel free to comment or DM me, but here's an overview:

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 19/01/2025

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!

Settings page. For each account you follow you can control what kinds of posts you get notifs for!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 12/01/2025

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

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 31/12/2024

Maintenance was successful, BlueNotify is back online!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 31/12/2024

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!

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 12/12/2024

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...

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BlueNotify - Apps on Google Play

Post notifications for Bluesky

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 11/12/2024

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)

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 10/12/2024

The issue causing double notifications to be sent out is fixed! It was HIGHLY technical, but if you must know: The "old computer in my garage" that the notification server used to run on "restarted itself last night" and I "forgot to turn disable auto start when the computer turns on"

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 08/12/2024

Over the past few days I've redone all of the back-end code for BlueNotify, so the server is no longer running in my garage The good news - If I lose power at home, notifications should still work! The bad news, switching over may have caused double notifications for posts in the last 10 minutes 😬

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Austin Witherspoon @austinwitherspoon.com · 01/12/2024

@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

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 28/11/2024

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

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 28/11/2024

Apple had approved the app for IOS! apps.apple.com/us/app/bluen...

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BlueNotify - Post notification app for Bluesky @bluenotify.app · 27/11/2024

If all goes well and bluesky adds post notifications, I will eventually delete this app. It's funny to make something where the goal is to eventually have it die

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