Today I was working on an alerting system that detects new developments in news and notifies me about it on the phone.
I used to integrate SMS gateways in the past so I thought it should be easy, but quickly realised how hard it got to get verified with these SMS providers. I can understand that is due to spam, but it's super hard to get verified for non-US countries.
So I was thinking to use push notifications but didn't want to create an app just to notify me. Luckily I found a Pushover app that does just that, is an existing app you can use to push notifications over for your personal use. If anyone will need something like that in the future it exists.
Saved me a lot of work.