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IPhone Devs: What do you think of this web app so far?
iPhone Developers:
I've been working on this web application for the past few months. In a nutshell, it makes it really easy to get into using Push Notifications as it removes the need for developing and managing your own Push Notification provider. We handle everything behind the scenes and expose a simple REST API to send notifications and interact with the service.
We still have a few usability problems (number one being certificate uploading), but what do you think of it so far? Would you use a service like this in your application(s)?
http://pushyapp.com/
- cmelbye 17y agoClickable link: http://pushyapp.com/ http://pushyapp.com/
- there 17y agono feedback on the service itself, but the volume on the screencast is so quiet i can barely hear the narrator
- cmelbye 17y agoSorry about that, I think the fact that I was just using my iMac's built in microphone may have contributed to it.
- andrewljohnson 17y agoNice domain :)
- credo 17y agoimo the site seems to focus too much on stuff like saying "Pushy is freaking awesome!" (to answer the "What is Pushy FAQ question) and too little on relevant stuff that developers would want to know. For instance, I couldn't find out what the rates are. From a tech perspective, I'm assuming that the developer will have to provide you with a certificate or some other means of authentication (to allow pushy to send notifications on the app's behalf). However, I couldn't find any information on what the developer needs to do to get started from zero and send push notifications using pushy. Of course, I'm not a marketing expert. So it is possible that your website approach may give you the results you want and that interested developers will email you to get more information. However, imo providing more upfront information (like certificates requirements etc.) may help get more traction.
- cmelbye 17y agoYeah, that's definitely something I've noticed. I'm going to make a sweep through everything to clean up the marketing text, and then I also want to implement some kind of hint/tip system in the sidebar that will help with explaining how to do things.