Notification Tool

4 Tips For Starting A Successful Notification Tool (2025)

Pat Walls

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Updated: April 14th, 2025

Want to start your own notification tool? Here are some tips you should know:

Learn more about starting a notification tool:

Where to start?

-> How much does it cost to start a notification tool?
-> Pros and cons of a notification tool

Need inspiration?

-> Other notification tool success stories
-> Marketing ideas for a notification tool

Other resources

We've interviewed thousands of successful founders at Starter Story and asked what advice they would give to entrepreneurs who are just getting started.

Here's the best advice we discovered for starting a notification tool:

#1: Mammad, founder of Sunnah Helper:

We chatted with with Mammad, founder of Sunnah Helper ($1/month). In our interview, Mammad says:

People’s needs are frequently changing and we as software engineers should be able to identify them and apply technology whenever possible and benefit humanity.

Read the full interview ➜

#2: Ryan Kulp, founder of Fomo:

We chatted with with Ryan, founder of Fomo ($90K/month). In our interview, Ryan says:

The toughest part about these first couple of years was figuring out how to scale me. Hint: you can’t.

Additionally:

Our #1 driver of growth was simply social proof itself. It never felt right to me that a social proof tool should grow by any other mechanism, which is why we put a lot of effort into receiving honest customer reviews in every format possible.

Further:

I think all of us were made for a purpose, the tricky thing is finding out what that purpose is. So keep asking questions, keep reading, keep studying, and keep thinking. I know I will be.

Read the full interview ➜

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Starting A Notification Tool: Everything You Need To Know

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