Hotline
Turn the notifications that matter into real alarms
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Hotline turns the iPhone notifications you pick into real alarms: loud, full screen, through Silent and Focus. Rules for apps, people, words, calendar events, hours and repeats; everything else stays a quiet banner. No account. 3 alarms free, then $4.99 once.
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PH · launched Nov 2, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%)
- Horizontal
- Communication
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- iOS
- Productivity
- Alarms
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Partial The rules UI and alarm settings are straightforward Swift work, but iOS restricts third-party apps from reading other apps' notifications and from full-volume critical alerts, which needs special entitlements or workarounds.
What it would actually take: Build a native iOS app with Focus filters, Time Sensitive/Critical alert entitlements, and a notification service extension for rule matching. Making alarms override Silent and Focus requires Apple's Critical Alerts entitlement, which is granted case by case. The hard parts are working within iOS notification access limits and securing the entitlement, which requires Apple platform expertise and approval.
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Attention rank: #317 of 657 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 359 days after the earliest competitor.
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