Without bells and whistles
Nudge is an open-source tool to broadcast Events to a website's viewers. For eg. Imagine a tourism website that offers various tour packages to different locations. The providers wish to send out promotional offers and discount notices to its viewers. With Nudge, you get to do this along with a nice little dashboard to track all such events that has run its course on your website. Nudge also provide APIs to manage events, so its easy for you integrate this with other apps!
I find it really hard to find a simple tool that does exactly this. I agree that there's plenty of paid options out there, which includes this tiny little feature, but what if we only need this option! So why not build one!
Nudge is built with Elixir's Phoenix framework and PostgreSQL.
If you don't have Elixir installed, head over to https://elixir-lang.org/install.html
To start your Phoenix server:
- Install dependencies with
mix deps.get - Create and migrate your database with
mix ecto.setup - Install Node.js dependencies with
npm installinside theassetsdirectory - Start Phoenix endpoint with
mix phx.server
Now you can visit localhost:4000 from your browser.