DoNotNotify
Log and intelligently block notifications on Android
Details
- External ID
- 46499646
- Source
- HN
- Company
- —
- Product
- DoNotNotify
- Website domain
- donotnotify.com
- Launched
- Jan. 5, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 347
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.9868247694334651
- Tags
- —
- Fetched at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
- Updated at
- Sept. 7, 2026, 9:25 p.m.
Description
Why - I got sick of apps abusing notifications on my Android phone. While the OS does give you the ability to switch off notifications based on channels, most apps either don't use it or abuse it intentionally. In my case, I live in a gated society that uses an app called MyGate to allow visitors, and the app intentionally pushes ads through the same channels since you cannot block them.What - DoNotNotify is an app that logs all incoming notifications, and displays them grouped by app. It also captures the action behind the notification, which can be triggered from the app itself. From this log, you can create rules to whitelist/blacklist notifications from apps depending on their notification content. These filters can even be regex expressions, which allows for more complicated use-cases. The app ships with some pre-defined rules for popular apps like Facebook, Amazon, Instagram, Netflix, TikTok, Reddit etc.Where - The website is at https://donotnotify.com/.Would also like to call out that the app runs purely on your device, never communicates with anything on the Internet, and only requires notifications access to work. It is completely free, and there is no advertising or hidden gotchas.
Enrichment
- Theme
- digital minimalism and focus tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Vertical SaaS
- Audience
- B2C
- AI stance
- AI feature
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- intelligently log and block notifications on android
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
Yes Android provides a standard NotificationListenerService API that allows an app to inspect incoming notifications, run local pattern matching or regex, and dismiss unwanted alerts.
Discussion
20 comments analyzed.
Competitors mentioned: GrapheneOS, NetGuard, Pixel's Data Saver, ReThink, F-Droid
Concerns raised: Closed source code prevents auditing of data handling, Potential telemetry collection and sale to advertisers, Apps can gain internet permission via updates without user notification, Data can be exfiltrated through intents or shared storage even without internet permission, Ads work via Play Services even when app internet is blocked
Feature requests: Enforced reproducible builds from multiple sources with verifiable published results, Open source the tool with hosted rulesets/ML models as business model, Granular notification blocking by subcategory within apps, Per-app notification channel filtering capability, Ability to block background location scanning via WiFi/Bluetooth
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 169 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #3 of 170 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 55 days after the earliest competitor.
- NotiRecall · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- HyperSleep · ph · 2026-06-12 · 237 upvotes · similarity 0.45
- Distraction Free · ph · 2026-09-19 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Notification History Manager · ph · 2026-09-27 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NotiVault · ph · 2026-09-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Doorman · ph · 2026-09-24 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- NotiWise · ph · 2026-09-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
- Lazy Alarm — Wake Up Your Brain · ph · 2026-09-29 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.43
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.
Same idea, different domain
Nobody's really built a vertical saas tool for Insurance yet.