Notimaxx: the custom order-notification maker
By Larpmaxx teamUpdated
Notimaxx sends repeating order notifications to your own phone, with the store name, prices and timing you choose.
Notimaxx is a small, deliberately narrow tool. Four settings, one timer, and alerts that go nowhere except the device in your hand. It is for entertainment.
What Notimaxx is
A timer that posts browser notifications shaped like order alerts from a store you name. Each one is titled “Order #” followed by a number, and the line underneath carries the amount, the item count and your store name. It keeps going on the gap you set until you press stop.
Because these are real notifications, your browser has to agree to them first. If you have not granted permission yet, a strip near the top offers an Allow button, and if notifications are blocked the start button stays greyed out until you change that in your own settings. The alerts arrive on the device running the app and nowhere else.
There are two screens and that is the whole interface. The first is configuration, with a preview at the top that changes as you type, so you see the alert before one fires. Press start and it swaps to a run display: how many have been sent, which order number it is on, how long it has been running, the interval, and a stop button.
It also installs as its own app. On first open it asks for a name, lets you upload an icon, and walks you through adding it to your home screen, after which it launches full screen from that icon.
The four settings
Four, and this table is all of them.
| Setting | What it does |
|---|---|
| Currency | Eight fixed choices, picked as a button. It sets the symbol printed in front of every amount. |
| Prices | Up to ten rows, each one an amount you type plus an item quantity. Every notification picks one row at random, so a run looks varied rather than looped. |
| Store name | Free text. Whatever you put here is the store the alert names. |
| Interval | A slider covering 500 milliseconds up to 60 seconds, so anything from an unbroken stream to one alert a minute. |
The order number is not yours to set. It begins at 1000 on every run and adds one per notification, which is what makes a sequence read as one busy afternoon rather than a pile of unrelated pings.
What it is for
Filming, mostly, and it works differently from a screenshot. A still image has to be shown to the camera; a notification interrupts whatever you were already doing. Set a slow interval, start it, then film something completely mundane while your phone keeps insisting that business is booming. The step-by-step guide covers building the character those interruptions belong to, and larpmaxxing explains the wider bit this is a prop for. Cryptomaxx is the screenshot half of the same idea, for when you want a screen rather than a sound.
The other use is in person, with people who already know what your phone is doing. Half a second between alerts turns a dinner table into a running gag in about ten seconds, and it only works because everybody there is in on it.
So, plainly: these are notifications on your own phone and they are never evidence of a sale, a payment or a business. Never show them to someone as proof of anything. Not to a buyer deciding whether to trust you, not to a lender or an investor sizing up your revenue, not to someone waiting on money you owe them. A number you typed into a settings form is not income. Putting a fabricated alert in front of someone who does not know it was fabricated, to get money, trust or access out of them, is fraud in most places, whatever it was called when you set it up.
Pricing
Notimaxx is not sold on its own. One plan opens the whole Larpmaxx account, and the cards offer three of them:
- Starter at $20 a week
- Premier at $50 a month
- Lifetime at $100, paid once
What each tier covers, and the checkout itself, live on the plans page.
Questions people ask
Does anyone else get these notifications?
No. They are posted by the browser on the device the app is open on. Nothing leaves it and no message is delivered to another person.
Why do they stop on my iPhone?
iOS suspends the page shortly after you switch away from it, which stops the timer. The app says so on the configuration screen and suggests keeping Notification Center pulled down while a run is going, which holds the page awake.
Can I choose the sound?
Not inside the app. It uses whatever alert sound your device is set to, and the configuration screen points you at your own phone settings if you want to change that.
Can I start the order number somewhere else?
No. It always begins at the same value and counts up by one from there. The four settings above are the only ones exposed.
Can I write my own notification text?
You choose the store name, the currency, the amounts and the quantities, and those are what appear. The shape of the line around them is fixed.
Do I need a plan to use it?
Yes. Without an active plan the app opens on a prompt to choose one rather than on the scheduler.