Pusher
p/pusher
Write less code, ship your app faster & scale massively.
James Gill
Pusher Push Notifications API — Send push notifications programmatically at scale
Featured
41

Replies
Mike Coutermarsh
AWESOME. Love pusher. How easy would it be to migrate push notifications from Parse to Pusher? Also - interested in knowing why you all decided to move into this space? What are you doing different/better than competitors? Such as Fabric or PubNub?
Mak Thái
@jordan_qj @mscccc OneSignal offers its service for free & there're SDKs for many platforms. But OneSignal also hurts its customers due to poor segmentation control. For ex: they don't allow to set conditions with regex (every conditions are based on string & datetime), no autocompleting for saved tags .. At the moment, we have around 400k subscribed devices on OneSignal & every time we try to create new segments, it's pain every time. Notifications are one of effective (!) marketing channel now so that our marketing team really need a way to measure their campaigns & users' behaviors after they were invoked into anyone. One Signal does not offer this since it's a hub to send notifications only.
George Deglin
@dtlvan Hey Mak. I'm one of the founders of OneSignal and we greatly appreciate this feedback. We've designed our custom tags system to be very flexible by not limiting the number of possible tag keys, as well as supporting "not equal", "less than [number]", and "greater than [number]" operations. This does have the side effect of preventing us from easily autocompleting tag names since there's no limit on the number of possible names. Nevertheless, we're always seeking to make this better. Our segmentation tools are currently undergoing several improvements at this moment and I'd like to make sure that your frustrations go away after these improvements. Could you get in touch with me at george@onesignal.com with some examples of segments that you've found difficult to create? As for measuring post-notification behavior, OneSignal integrates with all mobile analytics tools. We provide callbacks that can be invoked both when a notification is received and when it is clicked, and these callbacks can be used to send events to the analytics system of your choice. OneSignal already reports notification clicks on our dashboard, and we will soon be providing data on influenced opens and post-notification behavior on the dashboard as well.
Andrew W Hill
Pusher is such a great API, was one of the first services we signed up for when building a new app!
Ross Rojek
Well looking at the pricing, its not bad for apps that don't have a lot of active users. The free tier of 100 is pretty limiting to test in.
Jordan Harp
@sacbookreviewer You are looking at the pricing for our Pubsub Messaging Gateway.
Robert Nachum
This looks cool
Saijo George
This looks awesome. D̶o̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶ ̶g̶u̶y̶s̶ ̶i̶n̶t̶e̶g̶r̶a̶t̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶Z̶a̶p̶i̶e̶r̶ ̶(̶ ̶o̶r̶ ̶p̶l̶a̶n̶ ̶t̶o̶ ̶d̶o̶ ̶t̶h̶a̶t̶ ̶i̶n̶ ̶t̶h̶e̶ ̶f̶u̶t̶u̶r̶e̶ ̶)̶.̶ Just found this : https://blog.pusher.com/pusher-z... The free plan looks super generous. 👏👏👏 cc: @jordan_qj
Askar
Very cool, I really wish I discovered this a while back. On one of my Ionic based app I've been dreading to implement push notifications for quite a while now since they involve some 30+ steps both for iOS and Android. I've done native iOS APN implementation before but it's a process I hate to do it again. With Ionic my expectation was to leverage a simple pub/sub model to push notifications to, and Pusher seem to be the right choice. Will be certainly trying it out and be a paying customer in the future.
Arieh Movtady
Very sexy website
Alex Booker
@ariehmovtady It's gorgeous, right 😍? I'm sure @alexjpate and @laurenmplews will be happy to hear you like it!
Kazuya Nakamura
Cool. I am looking for notification service as I need to migrate off from Parse. How is Pusher different from OneSignal?
Jordan Harp
@kzynakamura Pusher's Realtime API, which we are working on integrating with Push Notifications, is a hosted solution that powers the delivery of realtime data from your server to your clients over websockets. Over 100,000 developers and companies like Uber, Doordash, and The New York Times to build scalable and reliable realtime features such as cars moving on a map, messages in a chat, or votes in an election.
Cameron Robertson
Glad to get thoughts from @jordan_qj, love using Pusher in our apps! @kzynakamura the big thing from OneSignal is all the platforms they support today, especially up-and-coming tech like web push.
Oded
Where's the catch? If you'll lots of users you'll need to make money to fund your expenses.
Dylan Buckley
This looks really great and well designed. Looking forward to giving it a spin
Jaap Vermeulen
Why would I use this instead of Firebase Cloud Messaging?
Jaxon Du
@jacoplane firebase Android SDK requires Google Play services makes your app not usable in most phones in China. No worry if China is not your target market.
Jordan Harp
@jacoplane We just released support for Firebase Cloud Messaging, meaning that our API lets you send to APNs, GCM, and FCM with one simple Pub/sub subscription model. http://bit.ly/FCM-MPN
Min Phone Nyunt Win
@jacoplane @jaxondu When I test in the phone that cannot have Google Play Service, push notification didn't work. But it is work on the phone that have google play service.
Jordan Harp
We've released a V2 of this product and scaled it out of beta. Check out Pusher Beams! https://www.producthunt.com/post...
Jordan Harp
The Mobile Push Notifications API from Pusher -- a free and unlimited API to build cross-platform apps and send programmable Push Notifications to iOS and Android devices. -- Docs: https://pusher.com/docs/push_not... -- Tutorial: https://pusher.com/tutorials/pus... We're building lots of features to integrate it with Pusher's Realtime API and developer tools. Send me your feedback jordan@pusher.com
Scott Weinert
Awesome - I think we're paying $50/mo for Pushwoosh right now. How does this compare?
Pame Valdés
Does it support React Native?
Leo Bassam
We don't have an iOS app yet, only web app. Can we still somehow use this to push to our users phones?
Jordan Harp
@loaibassam No, push notifications are delivered through Apple and Google's messaging platforms, which require valid native app authentication.
Alex Booker
Hi everyone 👋 Adrien - Pusher's account executive - wanted me to let you know that if you have any questions relating to features or pricing, you're welcome to email him at, adrien@pusher.com
Two Phu
Free until this startup shuts down, then you will be re-implementing your push notifications again. I would stick with something known and trusted like GCM (e.g., Parse was bought by Facebook and subsequently shutdown).
Nitesh Mishra
API is a set of subroutine definitions, protocols, and tools for building software and applications. A good API makes it easier to develop a program by providing all the building blocks, which are then put together by the programmer. Learn the process of connecting API while building your mobile App with www.Configure.IT
Avi Parshan
How's it free? There is no free plan
Avi Parshan
Awesome. I was looking for an alternative to GCM, as I'm an inide developer.