Product updates, API tutorials, and webhook recipes from the Pocket Alert team.
A Telegram bot is the free, familiar way to send yourself alerts. The full setup, where it holds up, where it gets awkward – one sound for everything, escaping rules, a token in every URL – and when a push API is the better tool.
SMS charges per 160-character segment and now needs carrier registration before the first message. Push costs the same at three alerts or three thousand. Real Twilio numbers, the setup each one needs, and the case where SMS still wins.
Email is the default alert channel and the worst place for a 3 a.m. failure. Why alerts get lost in the inbox, where email still earns its place, and a simple rule for splitting alerts between the two.
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