wtf is gotify-netlify?

Gotify-netlify is a plugin that connects two services: Gotify, a self-hosted notification tool, and Netlify, a popular platform for hosting websites. The plugin's purpose is to listen for deployment events from Netlify and send you a push notification through Gotify whenever something happens. If you run your own Gotify server and deploy sites with Netlify, this gives you a simple, private way to get alerts like "deploy succeeded" or "build failed" delivered straight to your phone or desktop. At a high level, the plugin works by acting as a bridge. Netlify sends out a "webhook," which is just an automated message triggered when an event happens on your site. The plugin receives that message, formats it, and forwards it to your Gotify server, which then pushes the alert to whatever devices you have connected. Because it is a plugin for Gotify, it needs to be compiled for the specific version of Gotify you are running. The target audience is someone who already uses Gotify for personal notifications and Netlify for website hosting, and wants to tie the two together without relying on third-party services like Slack or email. For example, a developer who deploys a personal blog on Netlify could use this to get a quiet push notification on their phone every time a new post finishes building and goes live. Building the project requires some familiarity with compiling Go code, and the README notes that you need to match the plugin to your specific version of Gotify. If a pre-built version is available, you can just drop it into your plugin folder, otherwise, you need to compile it yourself using the provided build commands. The instructions are brief and assume you already have a working Gotify environment set up.