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Send Daily Push Notifications to Your Phone Using Golang
- The author built a bot with Go that reminds the user of their new year's resolutions via scheduled notifications sent to their phone.
- The Pushover API was used to deliver personalised notification messages, and resolutions.txt contains the text of the resolutions themselves (one per line).
- gocron was used to set the notification delivery time each day.
- The author wanted the project to be easy to update, so wrote in Go in order to have easy concurrency and clean API integration to keep the app uncluttered.
- The author uses environment variables to avoid hard-coding sensitive user credentials in the code.
- The gregdel/pushover package was used to send notifications via the mobile app Pushover.
- Storing the goals in a text file means updating them is a straightforward as editing the notepad file.
- The bot was developed with an eye to catering to users with little to no background in programming - hence its simplicity.
- The author acknowledges the year 2024 was a tough one, but encourages those who use the bot to stick to their goals in 2025.
- For those who want to try a hand building their own simple personal reminder system, he encourages learning with hands-on experience by forking the codebase and submitting improvements on GitHub.
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