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although the concept is quite good.. the pricing is a deal killer. At any scale that is quite expensive.

tannerburson 18y ago
I agree. I'm soon to be in the market for exactly this kind of service, and seeing email and twitter don't come for free, was an immediate turn off. If I were to use this service (or one like it) I'd be forced to implement email and twitter myself, and just pass through for text messages. If it connected with Twitter and Email for free, and SMS, phone and even IM were pay to play, I'd be a lot more interested.
RWilson 18y ago
I agree. The idea is great, and would save some dev time and learning about various communication streams, but it's not affordable. Were we to switch to MessagePub just for the e-mails we send from JamLegend for friend requests, challenges, referrals, new songs, etc, our communication costs would increase by 600%. For reference, we use sent.com at a price of $25 for 6 months, which lets us send up to 2K messages/hour. Paying $2500/month would be a vertical hike from $4.16/month. I know your pricing page lists that custom solutions are available for high volume, but I can't imagine that the price would come down enough to be reasonable. So, I think the idea of one service to hit your users on whatever communication medium they like is cool, but the pricing isn't affordable at scale. Think about it like this: if somebody else had built MessagePub, could you afford to have ShareMeme use it? It makes more sense for products that don't send a lot of messages, and need to be able to send to all sorts of devices. One example that comes to mind is for server monitoring: if a server is misbehaving, you want to be notified, and if you don't see the first message, the message needs to escalate quickly on multiple mediums, perhaps to other people.
sh1mmer 18y ago
The pricing is crazy. For things without a fixed cost you should be charging pence for 1000s of results not 1s. For phone and txt you have fixed costs and that's obvious, but I would reprice with everything except the phone and text at the same prices for CPM.

I agree. I'm soon to be in the market for exactly this kind of service, and seeing email and twitter don't come for free, was an immediate turn off. If I were to use this service (or one like it) I'd be forced to implement email and twitter myself, and just pass through for text messages. If it connected with Twitter and Email for free, and SMS, phone and even IM were pay to play, I'd be a lot more interested.

RWilson 18y ago

I agree. The idea is great, and would save some dev time and learning about various communication streams, but it's not affordable. Were we to switch to MessagePub just for the e-mails we send from JamLegend for friend requests, challenges, referrals, new songs, etc, our communication costs would increase by 600%. For reference, we use sent.com at a price of $25 for 6 months, which lets us send up to 2K messages/hour. Paying $2500/month would be a vertical hike from $4.16/month. I know your pricing page lists that custom solutions are available for high volume, but I can't imagine that the price would come down enough to be reasonable. So, I think the idea of one service to hit your users on whatever communication medium they like is cool, but the pricing isn't affordable at scale. Think about it like this: if somebody else had built MessagePub, could you afford to have ShareMeme use it? It makes more sense for products that don't send a lot of messages, and need to be able to send to all sorts of devices. One example that comes to mind is for server monitoring: if a server is misbehaving, you want to be notified, and if you don't see the first message, the message needs to escalate quickly on multiple mediums, perhaps to other people.

sh1mmer 18y ago

The pricing is crazy. For things without a fixed cost you should be charging pence for 1000s of results not 1s. For phone and txt you have fixed costs and that's obvious, but I would reprice with everything except the phone and text at the same prices for CPM.