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How do I get a phone notification from a webhook?

Forward the webhook to your Lert link with one POST. In your handler, take the incoming event and send it straight to your link — your iPhone buzzes in about a second. No account, no API keys, no SDK. Setup takes under 30 seconds.

Stripe, GitHub, a form service, your own backend — plenty of things fire webhooks, but a webhook is just an HTTP request hitting a server. To feel it on your phone you need something that turns that request into a push. Lert does exactly that: your unique link is a notification endpoint, so your handler forwards the event with one POST and you get buzzed.

Set it up in under 30 seconds

  1. Download the app. Open it once — there's no account to create.
  2. Copy your link. A private link like https://lert.dev/p/your-id is on screen; one tap copies it.
  3. Forward events from your handler. When a webhook arrives, POST a title and body to your Lert link.

Now every matching event lands as a buzz on your phone — even locked in your pocket.

The code

node · express
const express = require("express");
const app = express();
app.use(express.json());

app.post("/webhook", async (req, res) => {
  await fetch("https://lert.dev/p/your-id", {
    method: "POST",
    headers: { "Content-Type": "application/json" },
    body: JSON.stringify({
      title: "Webhook received",
      body: `Event: ${req.body.type}`
    })
  });
  res.sendStatus(200);
});

No headers beyond content type, no auth token, no SDK. The same one-line forward works in a Flask route, a serverless function, or any handler that can make an outbound request.

No server of your own? Point a no-code tool like Zapier or Make at your Lert link as the webhook's action URL — same result, zero code. The link is all it needs.

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It's free for one channel and 50 notifications a day; Lert Pro is $2.99/month for unlimited. See the docs for the full API.

Send your first one in 30 seconds.

Download Lert, copy your link, POST to it. Your iPhone buzzes.

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