iOS developer Simon Støvring recently launched Brrr, a convenient and low-friction web service and corresponding iOS app deliver push notifications to your iOS devices using only an HTTP request. In this way, it can integrate with almost any service or device that is internet-connected. Options allow you to customize the notification content, alert sound, destination URL, image, and more.

Brrr fills the particular niche of when you want a quick notification from a script, a cron job, or home automation trigger without building your own push notification infrastructure. It’s not the first app of its kind to do this, but it does so very simply. And at $9.99/year, it’s very reasonably priced for what it does.