Notifkit Ships Notification Infrastructure as an MIT npm Library With an MCP Server, Explicitly Positioned Against Novu
Notifkit launched on Show HN 2026-09-08 (107 stars, MIT, created 2026-07-16) as a self-hosted notification layer on Node.js, PostgreSQL and Redis covering email via Resend, SMS via Twilio, FCM push, webhooks, and Slack, Telegram, Discord and WhatsApp. Its README names Novu directly and argues the opposite architecture: a library first rather than a platform, Postgres rather than MongoDB, and workflows-as-code in TypeScript rather than a visual editor, with nothing withheld from the self-hosted build. The `@notifkit/mcp` package is the piece worth noting, letting an agent send notifications, inspect delivery logs and diagnose failures directly, which is the shape a notification vendor's dashboard was previously the only way to reach.
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