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overthinkerer

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overthinkerer··on Show HN: Tailwatch – Hierarchical event monitor with push notifications
Yeah, other messaging platforms like Slack can do notifications, but the setup always feels like a chore. I feel like this can be generally useful, just log in with GitHub, curl and you are already getting notified.

The code needs a bit of cleanup, maybe I have to add documentation to make self-hosting easier. Generally, there are a lot of places for improvement.

overthinkerer··on Show HN: Tailwatch – Hierarchical event monitor with push notifications
I had multiple agents running across different machines, some finishing and sitting idle for way too long before I noticed. I just wanted them to behave like microwaves, beep when they are done.

So I built Tailwatch. You post events with curl, see them in the dashboard, and get notifications everywhere. You log in with GitHub, the app installs as a PWA, I tried to make friction minimal.