Papercups VS Gotify

The best language for the task at hand, when presented with time constraints, is the one that you already know well. OP said in the article that they authored Papercups [1]. Adopting Elixir for a websocket-push service makes a lot of sense, then. However, why don't you learn Elixir, some OTP, and then reconsider that question? You could be missing out.

[1] https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups - 5.2k stars, uses Phoenix 1.6

Papercups

Phoneix - Elixir

We're a live message tool and it is basically what Elixir is built for https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups.

The Elixir community has been great and incredibly friendly. I originally was worried about the size of the community but that hasn't been an issue the community has been super helpful. I also think the annual stackoverflow usage surveys are very misleading because most of the community's questions get asked in ElixirForum and not on Stackoverflow.

Phoneix is the web framework of Elixir which is very similar to Rails but minus a lot of the magic has been very helpful for our productivity as well.

If I had to built another service that is websocket heavy I would definitely use Elixir. Even if it was a standard crud app I would still most likely choose Elixir.

Interestingly, the features page goes straight to github. With a list of features... followed by screenshots. So I found it!

https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups/wiki/Features

Yeah I agree, we're planning on updating the landing page to include a lot more screenshots/videos/demos :)

In the meantime, here are some screenshots from our GitHub wiki: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups/wiki/Features

And our demo page: https://app.papercups.io/demo

I maintain the Papercups project, which is an open source customer messaging tool: https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

Thanks for building this! Love this version I think this would work great for making and fixing bugs. I think automated tests and chores as a category would actually be great to add to this.

For our open source project (https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups). We participated in hacktoberfest recently and one problem we ran into is people submitting low quality PRs. Which ends up taking up way more time to review than to merge.

I would love to be able to filter by users who have merged multiple issues or some sort of quality bar for our bounties. Obviously since you are just starting out your users won't have too many issues merged. You might be able to work around this by finding the number of Github issues an author have merged previously to any projects that is greater than x number of stars. This way you might be able to bootstrap some credibility of the authors. Then maybe a contributor can gate on only allowing some reputable contributors.

One inspiration I would recommend is taking a look at how 99designs has different tiers of designers you can have a bounty for your design. If you could build 99design for open project that would be amazing. Best of Luck!

An open source live chat tool for customer support https://github.com/papercups-io/papercups

We launched on August and have been steadily getting some traction and building a little community in our Slack channel

I use apprise with Gotify

If you do not need the state tracking, but instead need something that can deliver push notifications to you, check out ntfy and gotify

Gotify (version 2.5.1): A client for receiving push notifications

I've found Gotify to work well for that

Just FYI - there's also shoutrrr and gotify with similar functionality. I've tried them, they're very good, but not fitting my (very humble) needs.

Been looking for something for push notifications for a while now. How is ntfy working out for you? Have you ever used gotify?

You can self host a Gotify server (single file executable, web interface), install the app, set it to connect to the server on the local network. Sending a message is as easy as a curl to the server. It will show up in the apps.

https://gotify.net/

https://github.com/gotify/android

The problem is that there is no iOS app. You could use the browser there but maybe ntfy would be a better fit (Android + iOS.)