You don't want to sit watching a dashboard to find out a new order landed, your website went down, or last night's backup didn't run. You want your phone to buzz the moment it happens, so you can act — and then get on with your day.
That's what we built TYO Notify to do.
What it is
Subscribe to a topic, and any system you run can send a notification to your phone with a single web request. There's no app for you to build, no account to create, and no software library to install. If a tool can make a web request — your online store, your booking system, a small script, a monitoring service — it can send you a push.
Here's the whole thing, the way the technical person on your team would write it:
curl -d "New order #1043 — $240" https://freemq.tyo.com.au/notify/orders
Run that from your store's order hook, and "New order #1043 — $240" lands on the phone of everyone subscribed to the orders topic. Set a title, a priority, or a tap-through link, or send a private, contentless "wake" that just tells the app to check for the details. Same one line, more or less.
What you'd use it for
| When this happens | What you get |
|---|---|
| A new order or booking comes in | A push in seconds — accept it, prep it, or ring the customer back |
| Your website or online store goes down | You know before your customers do |
| A contact form or enquiry is submitted | You reply while the lead is still warm |
| The nightly backup finishes, or fails | Quiet confidence it ran, or a heads-up to act |
| Stock runs low, a payment clears, a long job finishes | A nudge, not another browser tab to keep checking |
A topic can have as many subscribers as you like, so a whole team can watch the same site-alerts or new-orders feed.
Why this way
- No account, no ads, no tracking. The topics you follow and the messages you receive stay on your device. The service only relays what you send.
- Hosted for you, or run your own. Use our always-on service by default, or point a topic at your own server if you'd rather keep everything in-house. Each subscription picks its own.
- It fits what you already run. TYO Notify speaks the same simple interface as the popular open notification tools, so if your monitoring or automation already knows how to "send a notification", it can send to TYO Notify by changing one address.
- Fast and always on. It runs on enterprise-grade cloud hosted close to you in the Asia-Pacific, so a message goes from your system to your pocket in a moment.
One honest note: a public topic can be read by anyone who knows its name. Treat a topic name like a password, and don't send anything sensitive over a public one — for private, authenticated delivery, use an account topic.
Try it now
You can try it this minute, no sign-up. Open the TYO Notify playground, pick a topic, curl it, and watch the message arrive live. The Android and iOS apps are landing shortly, so the notification comes straight to your phone.
Next up: the mobile apps hit the stores, and step-by-step recipes for wiring TYO Notify into the tools you already run — website, monitoring, backups and more.
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