About Notimator

The Story

I have been working on this project for a long time. I started by writing my own clients for other notification services, but eventually realized they did not fit my needs.

I built Notimator to solve some of the problems that no single existing solution could handle:

Support notifications arriving while offline and displaying them once they come online.
Headless handling of notifications required custom scripts if it was even possible.
Sending notifications to an Android device was simply not possible.
None of them had a native macOS client.

Notimator is born

It was time to build my own solution. It was a challenging task, but I was determined to create a solution that would meet my needs and the needs of others.

I am a veteran software developer with almost 40 years of professional experience writing large-scale high-performance enterprise applications for my long-time employer.

Writing software has been my passion and job and continues to be so. I have written so many apps personally for Linux, macOS, Windows and Android that I have lost count. I have never published any of them. Notimator is the exception since I believe it is a truly useful service that I will enjoy expanding upon and users will hopefully enjoy using.

Currently, the service is in closed beta. I have been using it daily for many months and tweaking things and fixing bugs. There are a few other people involved in the testing, but I am the sole developer.

Since I am the sole developer, I don't want to open it to the public until I am satisfied that it is ready for general release. I want to make sure it is the best it can be, and supporting an in-development project with many users makes testing and managing defects too time-consuming while also managing a day job.

Anyway, there is more work to be done polishing the applications and the back-end. I hope it will see a public opening sometime this year or early next year.

Have a great day!