One POST, and your paired devices buzz.
Pair a Telegram chat or your browser, grab an API key, and POST one line of JSON — your paired devices light up at once.
9:41
Today · personal alert
attn.ca · deploy pipeline
prod is green
Telegramthis browser
What a ping actually looks like
Your dashboard
Pair destinations, mint one key
The signed-in dashboard is the setup checklist: verified destinations first, then an API key scoped to send only your pings.
Your dashboard
ready to receiveTelegram chat@you · verified
This browserWeb Push · verified
API key
pbca_live_4F…attn:notifycurl -X POST https://attn.ca/api/v1/notify -H "Authorization: Bearer pbca_live_…" -d '{"title":"Deploy finished","body":"prod is green"}'What lands
A ping that looks like a real alert
When your deploy, cron job, or agent needs you, your paired devices get the same clear message.
9:41
Today · personal alert
attn.ca · deploy pipeline
prod is green
Telegramthis browser
Sign in to make it real
Illustration — sign in to send your own.
How it works
Three steps to your first alert
- Connect a destination you own — a Telegram chat or this browser.
- Mint an API key from your dashboard (scope
attn:notify), shown once. - POST a title and body to the notify endpoint. Every device you paired gets pinged.
One call
curl -X POST https://attn.ca/api/v1/notify \
-H "Authorization: Bearer pbca_live_..." \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"title":"Deploy finished","body":"prod is green"}'Your paired destinationsNotifications go only to destinations you have paired and verified.
Why use attn?
One account for your personal alerts
- Your pastebin.ca identity — the same account and API keys you already use across the bin family.
- MCP-native — a first-class Model Context Protocol server with scoped tools.
- Do Not Disturb, dedup keys, and a real activity feed — the everyday details that make a personal alert pipe pleasant to live with.
Built for scripts and agents
A REST API and a first-class MCP server
Drive attn from a cron job, a deploy pipeline, or an AI agent. The same account powers a JSON REST API and a Model Context Protocol server with 12 tools.
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