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Notifyd – one-binary notification service on Postgres, operated via MCP

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notifyd is a self-hosted notification service built as a single 10 MB Rust binary with PostgreSQL as its only dependency. It handles email, SMS, WhatsApp, push, and in-app notifications through providers you already use, with a full delivery engine including priorities, retries, and failover. Instead of a dashboard, it exposes an MCP server so an AI agent can operate it directly.

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