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Comment by miki123211

This can be done via a Telegram bot. Advantages include.

* Completely free, for any number of users. Great if you want i.e. internal notifications in a small, underfunded organization, or even 2FA codes. This might not be the best option security-wise, but has a lot of advantages if you want to prevent intentional account sharing, for example.

* Syncs across all platforms, including your own (the Telegram client API is available free of charge, although it is not easy to use)

* Extremely simple API, to the point of being able to play with it in a browser or via CURL. This is in contrast to the client API, which doesn't even use HTTP and runs on top of custom crypto protocols.

* All the features you might expect from a messaging service, including file attachments, receiving user input (for quickly dealing with alerts from your phone), muting specific notification bots, including for specific amounts of time, full message history etc.

parent miki123211 5 years ago

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