[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":724},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-46499646":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":36,"aspects":37,"strip":46,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":78,"maker_in_thread":198,"shape":210,"grid":215,"attempts":687,"same_week":688,"maker_shows":34,"maker_hidden":717,"reader_version":718,"card":719},"46499646","DoNotNotify","Log and intelligently block notifications on Android","title","Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android","https:\u002F\u002Fdonotnotify.com\u002F","donotnotify.com","awaaz",1767625847,2026,347,168,105,4366,3,"legend","productivity","notification management","mobile_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"android notifications","block notifications","notification log","notification filter","regex rules","mixed",0.01,{"positive":32,"neutral":33,"mixed":34,"critical":35},13,20,2,19,54,{"privacy":38,"idea":41,"pricing":43,"execution":45},{"positive":39,"critical":40},1,15,{"positive":42,"critical":18},11,{"positive":44,"critical":44},0,{"positive":44,"critical":39},[34,39,18,39,44,44,44,39,39,34,44,39,39,39,44,44,44,44,44,44,44,44,18,18,44,18,47,18,47,39,34,47,47,18,47,48,39,44,47,18],5,4,"Why - I got sick of apps abusing notifications on my Android phone. While the OS does give you the ability to switch off notifications based on channels, most apps either don't use it or abuse it intentionally. In my case, I live in a gated society that uses an app called MyGate to allow visitors, and the app intentionally pushes ads through the same channels since you cannot block them.\n\nWhat - DoNotNotify is an app that logs all incoming notifications, and displays them grouped by app. It also captures the action behind the notification, which can be triggered from the app itself. From this ",{"problem":51,"audience":57,"pricing":66,"motivation":70,"time_to_build":74,"stack":75,"openness":76,"stage":77,"team_size":76},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Apps push ads and unwanted notifications through channels the user cannot block.","maker",[55],{"id":56},"post",{"value":58,"source":59,"evidence":60},"Android users annoyed by notification spam and ads.","inferred",[61,62],{"id":56},{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},"46500013","mattbee","I've been happy with the solution of switching off notifications from apps that interrupt me with promotions - one strike and they're out. The remaining notifications are _still_…",{"value":67,"source":53,"evidence":68},"Free, with no advertising.",[69],{"id":56},{"value":71,"source":53,"evidence":72},"Got sick of apps abusing notifications, especially MyGate's ads in a gated society.",[73],{"id":56},null,[],"unknown","launched",{"praise":79,"objections":96,"requests":123,"questions":152,"alternatives":167},[80,88],{"value":81,"source":82,"evidence":83},"Runs on-device and never phones home.","commenter",[84],{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},"46501141","aydin212","Love the on-device approach. The fact that it never phones home is a huge differentiator — most \"utility\" apps these days are just data collection with a feature attached. The…",{"value":89,"source":82,"evidence":90},"Rule-based filtering is useful for marketing notifications.",[91,95],{"id":92,"by":93,"text":94},"46500062","hobofan","This is great! Looking forward to using it. Especially the rule-based filtering function, as my biggest sore spot with notifications are the few handful of highly functional apps…",{"id":85,"by":86,"text":87},[97,112],{"value":98,"source":82,"evidence":99},"Closed source; users want it open-sourced before trusting it with OTPs and messages.",[100,104,108],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},"46501146","Draiken","I would love to use this, but I don't want to allow a third party app with closed source to read all my notifications. This can read OTP passwords, full messages, etc. so it must…",{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"46506248","jFriedensreich","As others pointed out: This >needs\u003C to be open source, no way i touch another abandonware\u002F adware android project.",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"46540557","tamara_olive","The wild part about all these notification-firewall concepts is that we keep re‑creating the same tool in closed source. Why not ship it as open source, charge for the hosted…",{"value":113,"source":82,"evidence":114},"BuzzKill already does this and is more feature-rich.",[115,119],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},"46508563","Abishek_Muthian","Congratulations on the launch OP. I'm currently using BuzzKill[1] for managing notifications on android. It's so good (and beautiful) that even though I use iPhone as primary…",{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},"46501837","bpavuk","there is a very similar app with much bigger history and (obviously) greater reputation: BuzzKill. [0] it's paid, available on Google Play, has tons of features and then some.…",[124,133,141],{"value":125,"source":82,"evidence":126},"Open-source the code.",[127,131,132],{"id":128,"by":129,"text":130},"46501128","thecosmicfrog","Looks interesting. Good work. Do you have plans to open source the code?",{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},{"value":134,"source":82,"evidence":135},"Publish on F-Droid.",[136,137],{"id":101,"by":102,"text":103},{"id":138,"by":139,"text":140},"46501357","myworkaccount2","when will it be available through fdroid?",{"value":142,"source":82,"evidence":143},"Notification digest or batching option.",[144,148],{"id":145,"by":146,"text":147},"46501924","Zak","My approach to this problem is to not install apps that could be websites, and to remove apps that send me useless notifications. Some apps use notification categories, which…",{"id":149,"by":150,"text":151},"46507599","elias1233","I recently played around with a similar idea, but with the added feature that notifications would be sent together in a single notification from the app at scheduled times,…",[153,160],{"value":154,"source":82,"evidence":155},"Does it work for persistent notifications such as VPN ones?",[156],{"id":157,"by":158,"text":159},"46499936","Multrex","Tried with Cloudflare's 1.1.1.1 to hide the VPN and DNS notification from Android System notification service but it does not work.",{"value":161,"source":82,"evidence":162},"Is there an iOS equivalent?",[163],{"id":164,"by":165,"text":166},"46501134","drewg123","Is there anything like this for iOS? Or is something like this impossible for a 3rd party to do on iOS?",[168,177,184,191],{"value":169,"source":82,"evidence":170},"BuzzKill",[171,172,173],{"id":116,"by":117,"text":118},{"id":120,"by":121,"text":122},{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"46500245","princevegeta89","I use an app called BuzzKill on Android for achieving this and many more things. I usually keep my notification bar at an absolute minimum when it comes to the number of…",{"value":178,"source":82,"evidence":179},"FilterBox",[180],{"id":181,"by":182,"text":183},"46499960","Mattwmaster58","A couple years back I was looking for this sort of solution and ended up paying money to buy FilterBox which I've found to be good. There are certain apps that I would love to be…",{"value":185,"source":82,"evidence":186},"Tasker with AutoNotification",[187],{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"46500707","modeless","Android (at least on Pixel) recently added a notification spam detection system, under the name \"Notification Organizer\". Unfortunately they don't let you block the spam, only…",{"value":192,"source":82,"evidence":193},"Before Launcher",[194],{"id":195,"by":196,"text":197},"46500494","0xbadcafebee","The Before Launcher for Android has a notification filter as well, and is a great simple launcher. It doesn't let you create rules, but you can enable\u002Fdisable each app's…",{"comments":32,"answered":199,"key":200},7,[201,204,207],{"id":202,"text":203},"46501353","Fair enough, you only have my word on it (that it doesn't send any data to the Internet). But you do have my word :) Another person requested that the app be open-sourced as…",{"id":205,"text":206},"46501102","That's a great suggestion. Perhaps in the next version!",{"id":208,"text":209},"46500907","Honestly I did not know about Buzzkill. 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