Send Push Notifications to Your Phone or Desktop Using Go

Push notifications are a powerful way to engage and re-engage users with your Go application. By sending timely and relevant notifications, you can keep your users informed, drive user activity, and provide a personalized user experience.

Saashound, a powerful real-time event tracking tool, offers seamless push notification capabilities for your Go application. By integrating Saashound directly into your application, you can effortlessly send push notifications to your users’ phones or desktops, keeping them engaged and informed.

Connecting Saashound to Your Go Application

To begin sending push notifications to your phone or desktop using Saashound in your Go application, follow these simple steps:

  1. Sign up for a free Saashound account to start tracking your application’s events.
  2. Create your first project from the user-friendly dashboard.
  3. Access the settings and securely copy your unique API token.

Go Integration

Integrating Saashound into your Go application is straightforward. Use the following code snippet to send push notifications. Remember to replace API_TOKEN with your actual Saashound API token and update the project name to match your project.

Using net/http
package main
import (
"bytes"
"encoding/json"
"fmt"
"net/http"
)
func logEvent() {
apiURL := "https://api.saashound.co/log-event"
payload := map[string]interface{}{
"project": "my-project",
"channel": "push-notifications",
"event": "Push Notification Sent",
"description": "Push notification sent to user with device token 'DEVICE_TOKEN'.",
"icon": "📲",
"notify": true
}
payloadBytes, err := json.Marshal(payload)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error marshaling payload:", err)
return
}
req, err := http.NewRequest("POST", apiURL, bytes.NewReader(payloadBytes))
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error creating request:", err)
return
}
req.Header.Set("Content-Type", "application/json")
req.Header.Set("Authorization", "Bearer API_TOKEN")
client := http.DefaultClient
resp, err := client.Do(req)
if err != nil {
fmt.Println("Error sending request:", err)
return
}
defer resp.Body.Close()
if resp.StatusCode >= 200 && resp.StatusCode < 300 {
fmt.Println("Log event sent successfully!")
} else {
fmt.Println("Failed to send log event. Response code:", resp.StatusCode)
}
}
func main() {
logEvent()
}

With Saashound, you can:

  • Personalized Notifications: Send personalized push notifications based on user interactions and preferences, enhancing the user experience.
  • Real-Time Notifications: Instantly deliver push notifications to users’ devices as events occur in your Go application.
  • Cross-Platform Support: Saashound’s push notifications work on both mobile and desktop platforms, ensuring a broader reach to your users.
  • Event-Based Triggers: Trigger push notifications based on specific events or user behaviors within your Go application.
  • Customized Message Content: Tailor the content of your push notifications to match the context of each notification.

Saashound Benefits

Saashound is designed to be user-friendly and accessible to developers and teams of all sizes. Here are some key benefits of using Saashound for sending push notifications in your Go application:

  • Ease of Use: Saashound offers a no-code event tracking solution, making it simple for anyone to implement and use.
  • Flexible Integration: Saashound can seamlessly integrate with your Go application, supporting multiple platforms and frameworks.
  • Event Filtering: Customize which events trigger push notifications, ensuring you send only relevant and valuable messages to your users.
  • Insights and Analytics: Utilize Saashound’s charts and analytics to track push notification engagement and optimize your notification strategy.

By leveraging Saashound’s push notification capabilities, you can enhance user engagement, retain users, and create a more interactive and valuable experience for your Go application’s users.

Other use-cases for SaasHound

  1. Monitor API Authorization and Access Control in your Go Application
  2. Monitor API Response Times in your Go Application
  3. Monitor CPU and Memory Usage of External Services Accessed by your Go Application
  4. Monitor CPU Usage in your Go Application
  5. Monitor when a Database Goes Down in your Go Application
  6. Monitor Database Query Performance in your Go Application
  7. Monitor High Disk Usage in Your Go Application
  8. Monitor when a user changes their email address in your Go application
  9. Monitor failed logins in your Go application
  10. Monitor failed payments for your Go application
  11. Monitor memory usage in your Go application
  12. Monitor MySQL downtime in your Go application
  13. Monitor when a new feature is used in your Go application
  14. Monitor your Postgres downtime in your Go application
  15. Monitor Redis downtime in your Go application
  16. Monitor Server Health and Uptime in your Go Application
  17. Monitor suspicious activity in your Go application
  18. Monitor when a user is being rate limited in your Go application
  19. Monitor when a user exceeds the usage limit for your Go service
  20. Get a notification when your Go code is done executing
  21. Track A/B Testing and Feature Rollouts in your Go Application
  22. Track canceled subscriptions in your Go application
  23. Track Cron Jobs in Go
  24. Track when a file is uploaded to your Go application
  25. Track when a form is submitted to your Go application
  26. Track your Go cron jobs
  27. Track payment events via Go
  28. Track User Engagement Metrics in your Go Application
  29. Track user sign in events in Go
  30. Track user signup events via Go
  31. Track waitlist signup events via Go