I’m building Notificamy: smart reminders from plain English prompts 🚀— Here’s where I’m at, what I’ve learned, and what I need help with 💬

Hey builders! 👋

For the past few months, I’ve been working on a side project called Notificamy, born from a simple frustration: why do most reminder systems feel either too dumb (just fixed time/date) or too complex (Zapier-style workflows)?

So I asked myself:

“What if I could just write what I want, in natural language, and the system figures out when, how and where to remind me?”

That’s the core of Notificamy: you write prompts like:

“Remind me to sell bitcoin if they reach 150k.”

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“Send me a summary about upcoming juggling events in Dublin every month”

…and the assistant: • parses the intent with AI, • validates the logic, • turns it into a recurring or conditional notification, • and sends it through your preferred channel (Slack, Email, WhatsApp, Telegram, etc.)

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🔧 Development Progress

✅ MVP back-end with Spring Boot + Lambda + SQS + SES ✅ Prompt parser with OpenAI + rules validator ✅ CRON and conditional triggers implemented ✅ Slack + Email integration complete 🧪 Currently testing WhatsApp and Telegram delivery 🔜 Working on front-end (React + TS) to make the UI less “engineer-only”

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🧠 What I learned so far • Language is messy – parsing natural language reliably means finding a balance between GPT’s creativity and strict rule validation. I had to build a “prompt validator” to avoid logic errors like “remind me yesterday”. • Not all notifications are equal – time-based reminders are easy, but conditional reminders (e.g. “only if X hasn’t happened”) required rethinking the data model entirely. • People don’t want 100 reminders, they want the right one at the right moment. This has been my guiding principle while designing triggers.

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😬 Challenges I’m still figuring out • 🔄 Recurring conditional triggers (e.g. “Every Friday unless…”) • 🤖 Custom validation policy per user/team • 📱 Making the UX smooth for non-techies without losing flexibility

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🙏 How you can help

I’m looking for early testers and feedback from people who: • work in async teams (e.g. product managers, ops, remote devs) • often forget things not for lack of tools, but because their tools don’t understand context • love experimenting with AI + productivity • have strong opinions on what makes reminders useful vs annoying

💬 If that’s you, I’d love to give you early access and hear your thoughts. Just comment below or DM me — happy to show you what’s live!

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🔗 If you’re curious: https://notificamy.com (But no pressure — this post is more about the journey than the landing page)

Thanks for reading! Happy to answer any questions 🙌