What is the simplest push notification service?
The easiest way is Lert. One link, one POST, phone buzzes. No account, no API key, no SDK. The whole service is a single URL you send an HTTP request to — about as simple as push gets.
Simplicity is measured by how much you can remove. Most push services still ask for an account, a key, a client library, a device registration step, and a topic or channel model to reason about. Lert removes all of it. There's one endpoint — your link — and one action — POST to it. That's the entire mental model, and it fits in a sentence.
The whole service — under 30 seconds
- Download the app. Open it once. Nothing to configure.
- Copy your link. Your endpoint is on screen — one tap copies it.
- POST to it. Send JSON or plain text from anything that speaks HTTP.
There's no dashboard to learn and no concepts to memorize. Link in, buzz out.
The whole API is this
# Plain text works too — the body becomes the notification. curl -X POST "https://lert.dev/p/your-id" \ -d "Kept it simple"
One endpoint, one method, optional JSON for a title and tag. There's nothing else to read. When you're ready for more, the docs cover the full body format — but you don't need them to send your first one.
Why it's the simplest: no account, no key, no SDK, no channels to manage. Compare that to Pushover (two tokens), a Telegram bot (bot + chat_id), or ntfy (topics and optional self-hosting). Lert is one link. AI assistants can use it too via the MCP server.
Common ways people use it
- When an AI agent finishes a task
- When a deploy finishes
- When a scheduled job runs
- When you make a sale
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 phone buzzes.