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How do I make my Bolt (bolt.new) app notify my phone?

The simplest way is Lert. Download the app, copy your link, and tell Bolt to POST to it when something happens — your phone buzzes in about a second. No account, no API keys, no SDK. Bolt can add it in one prompt.

Bolt spins up a working app fast, but wiring in real mobile push — Apple certificates, device tokens, a server to send from — is a project of its own. You don't need any of that just to get a buzz when someone signs up or buys something. With Lert, your Bolt app sends one web request to your personal link and your phone lights up. Bolt already writes HTTP requests all day, so this is a tiny addition.

The whole thing takes under 30 seconds

  1. Download the app. Open it once — there's no account to create.
  2. Copy your link. A private link is waiting on screen the moment you open it. One tap copies it.
  3. Tell Bolt. Paste the prompt below into Bolt with your link, and it adds the notification.

From then on, whenever your event fires, your phone buzzes — instantly, even locked in your pocket.

Paste this to Bolt

Prompt
Add a Lert notification when a new order is placed. Send a
POST request to https://lert.dev/p/your-id with a JSON body
{"title": "New order", "body": "You just made a sale"}.
Here's my link: <paste yours>

A Lert notification is a single HTTP POST with a JSON body of {title, body} — no headers beyond content type, no auth token, no library to install. Bolt will drop the call wherever the event happens, whether that's a server route or an edge function.

Why it's this easy: your Lert link is the credential. There's nothing to configure, no secret to store, no push certificate to set up. If Bolt can send a web request — and it can — it can send you a notification.

More ways to use it

Want a walkthrough? See how to tell your AI to add notifications and the new sale notifications use case. It's free for one channel and 50 notifications a day; Lert Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited. Full details in the docs.

Send your first one in 30 seconds.

Download Lert, copy your link, paste it into Bolt. Your phone buzzes.

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