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pndy · 20 hours ago

Does this by any chance works against built-in applications that don't allow you to disable notifications?

Last week I was configuring Samsung for my mother and it constantly nags her with notification for setting up Samsung account (that's not the worst offender tho) and frankly that would really help here.

awaaz · 20 hours ago

It should be able to, unless they are using Live Update [0] notifications.

[0] https://developer.android.com/develop/ui/views/notifications...

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bartread · 21 hours ago

I’m not an Android user, but props to you for taking the feedback onboard and doing this, Anuj. Lot of respect for you. In an era of eroded privacy, intrusive notifications, and enshittification you’ve done a genuinely positive and helpful thing to allow ordinary users to fight back.

And, yes, some people will criticise code quality but (a) if those people aren’t actively contributing to the product then you should ignore them, and (b) I suspect the complainers will largely be drowned out by the many who will support your decision.

You certainly aren’t the only highly experienced engineer vibe-coding their way through a problem - I’m leaning very heavily on Claude, and somewhat on ChatGPT, at the startup I’m working on at the moment.

Thank you, Anuj!

awaaz · 21 hours ago

You're very kind, thank you!

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baxuz · 21 hours ago

How do you add rules to the app?

awaaz · 21 hours ago

The starting point is a notification from an app that you want to create a rule for. So you wait for a notification, then click on it in the "History" tab, and then you can configure the rest from there. It's slightly non-intuitive, but the reason for that flow is that the app needs the package name of the app, which almost nobody will know.

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cranberryturkey · a day ago

I started doing all my projects as open source from the beginning The problem isn’t “well then they won’t pay” there tons of coders and open source users who would gladly save time and energy with paid hosted version this is what I offer potential customers that’s not even the hard part the hard part is and always will be marketing and sales and distribution

awaaz · a day ago

This isn't really a commercial project, so not much of that applies.

awaaz commented on Show HN: DoNotNotify – Log and intelligently block notifications on Android donotnotify.com/... · Posted by u/awaaz

naimurhasanrwd · a month ago

Does the app has any country wise template rule collections? I would love to have the feature but not willing to write rule 100 rules for 30 apps by my own.

awaaz · a month ago

It does have rules for about 25 common apps already built in. I had considered making a feature to 'share' rules with other users of the app, but that would've required Internet access. And as you can see from the comments on this thread, nobody wants an app like this to send data :(

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bityard · a month ago

I guess I'm surprised that Android would allow one app to read/manage/block notifications from all other apps. I mean, I'm happy to have that kind of control over my phone, but it also seems like it could be viewed as a giant security hole? (Which would be a bit ironic given that Google is actively stamping out the ability for users to install apps that come from outside their walled garden.)

awaaz · a month ago

The app requires a very specific permission for this, which it asks for on first launch. It's not even just a popup on which you can tap "Ok" - Android will take you to a special screen from where you need to manually switch on the notifications access for it to work.

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drewg123 · a month ago

Is there anything like this for iOS? Or is something like this impossible for a 3rd party to do on iOS?

awaaz · a month ago

iOS doesn't give developers access to other apps' notifications, AFAIK. I'm not an iOS developer though - maybe someone with more knowledge can chime in.

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aydin212 · a month ago

Love the on-device approach. The fact that it never phones home is a huge differentiator — most "utility" apps these days are just data collection with a feature attached. The regex filtering is clever. Have you thought about adding ML-based classification for notifications that are harder to catch with patterns? Something lightweight like a small on-device model could detect promotional vs. transactional notifications without needing manual rules. Also curious about battery impact — how often does it process the notification stream?

awaaz · a month ago

> Have you thought about adding ML-based classification for notifications that are harder to catch with patterns?

Honestly that's a little out my league. The idea did occur to me, but I'm discouraged by the amount of compute required for most ML.

> Also curious about battery impact — how often does it process the notification stream?

The OS sends any new notification to the app (it is a push based approach) automatically. On my own phone, this app currently shows at the bottom of the list in battery usage (<1%).