Hi Community!
Looking forward to hear your thoughts about this.
Novu was started out of pain me and @combarnea felt when developing products that required product based notifications. We've built the infrastructure so many times that we decided to take it out to the world. That's when Novu was born. We took the multi-channel notifications and provided a unified set of API's to generate notification content and simplify delivery across multiple channels.
It's more than just sending an email or push
(Part of slacks notification system)
From our past experience, we know that a wholesome notification infrastructure requires more than a unified API. We believe that building a solid notification infrastructure is something that is accessible not only to fortune 500 companies but to every developer out there.
Notificaiton infrastructure foundations
Smart Notification Engine
Using a stateful API instead of local config files can provide further functionality like:
- Run time changes without redeploying your code.
- Digest mechanism that allows to aggregate multiple events/messages to a single email or in-app notification for the customer. For example, a user received an email a minute ago, we don't want to send him the next one immediately and wait if further messages are planning to arrive.
- User preferences - With the ever-growing number of channels, an end-user can get notifications can create a lot of noise. Notification preferences are an expected thing from most users this day. A stateful API can manage all the complexities of it out of the box.
- Priority management - Not all notifications created equally, while password reset email must be delivered in real-time. Repeatable and frequent notifications can be throttled or scheduled to a later time.
- Timezone awareness - Send a specific set of notifications only in the user wake hours.
- Monitoring and webhook integrations to all the delivery providers.
- Analyze sending patterns and debug deliverability across multiple channels
In-app notification center
- An embeddable widget that is easy to integrate and customize.
- Real-time update using a socket.
- User preference widget to control the channels and motivation groups he would love to receive.
- The ability of the user to Snooze, mute and hide notifications easily.
We would love that everyone can have the best notification infrastructure possible without investing thousands of hours on it again and again. By the community. For the community.
Next steps
We are working on porting parts of the closed source platform we developed over the years to OSS. This includes an out-of-the-box API for managing notifications, an embeddable notifications widget, activity monitoring and more.
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What are your thoughts about the need for such a system? Have you built something similar with your team? What would expect to see there?
Feel free to comment here or at our Github page https://github.com/novuhq/novu/
Latest comments (7)
What an effort⚡️
Thanks guys.
Hey, what's your timeline on the web notifications? I'm looking for something like the last image you've attached. How are you going to solve it? Because it will require a websocket server and persistent storage.
I believe in the next 2 weeks it will be out including the web server. We are going to provide a docker compose with the relevant servers including websocket. You can join us on discord or follow the project on GitHub
Wow. Sounds incredibly involved. What are the motivations for sharing such detailed works for free
We've been working on parts of it over the years. But as people say, it takes a village :) We believe that only with the power of the community we can solve this once and for all.
node... will it work in 10 years? what about support?
The library itself is in node.js. But we are currently the API that can be communicated with a thin layer http sdk. So it can be used from different languages as well.