Call home assistant notification service from external program (rest?)

Can I make a call to the home assistant notification service via rest api? Or would I just push a message to mqtt and handle that.

I was looking at notifications for home users so they don’t have to install a notification service like pushover - when we already have the home assistant companion app.

Create an automation and select “webhook” for the trigger. You can add a JSON payload when you call the webhook endpoint, and set up your automation to use that data to create whenever message you want and to send it to who you want.

Thanks. Will give that a try