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What's the current best option for sending push notifications? Is there an equivalent to Mailgun, SendGrid, Mandrill, SES? UrbanAirship? Does Twilio do it? Or d
by pbreit 11y ago
What's the current best option for sending push notifications? Is there an equivalent to Mailgun, SendGrid, Mandrill, SES? UrbanAirship? Does Twilio do it? Or do you just go direct to Apple/Google?
- dawson 11y agoWe migrated to Pushwoosh – all good so far
- newman314 11y agoMaybe hook things up to RethinkDB? https://rethinkdb.com/blog/realtime-web/ https://rethinkdb.com/blog/realtime-web/
- firloop 11y agoI've had a lot of positive experience with Amazon SNS. It's reasonably priced ($1/million push notifications) and makes sending notifications as easy as hitting an HTTP endpoint. We deliver a couple million notifications a month and have had no problems.
- rstupek 11y agoSecond that with our experience sending 1m push notifications a day to android/ios
- bschwindHN 11y agoThirded. It was actually a little annoying getting the message structure right (putting an escaped JSON string inside of JSON isn't the most intuitive thing), but once I got that working it's been smooth sailing.
- tomjen3 11y agoWhy not make a relatively simple node app that hooks up with apples servers? It is (if I recall correctly) a very simple protocol and it is free, even if you send lots of notifications.