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Comment by nexuist | Hacker News Reader

This is exactly what I've been looking for! I'm building a custom chat portal for my personal website and I needed some way to get pinged whenever I'm away from my end of the system.

Your pricing, however, seems really high. As an individual I'd graciously pay my dues just to support this, because I think it's an idea worth supporting with the right audience in sight (as opposed to PushBullet et al which are more for non-technical consumers), but I feel like it would be hard for sysadmins inside big corps to convince their bosses to bite the bullet on $60 per 4000 notifications when the corp may be sending out 40-50k notifications a day all to different personnel.

Is this intentional? Do you want to restrict the use of this tool to a few hobbyists to avoid having to put too much effort into scaling up to handle those loads? I just put my startup hat on and I'm curious as to how you determined the pricing.

The pricing for the moment is intentional. My first category of end-users and single customers.

I originally envisioned Notify17 to be a personal hub, more than an enterprisey tools (in the beginning clearly. If business grows, sure the model will change).

I'm not trying to compete on tools like PagerDuty, which already do their jobs very well. For now, Notify17's main goal is alerting/reporting on a smaller scale.

From a startup perspective, the team is building up, it's in a phase where the main features are working, it's no more a prototype (backend/iOS), but how users will want to use the product is still a question (therefore the call for beta users). I want to have a solid set of features that I know users will use before trying any big jump.

Is this a different product from AWS SNS ($1.00 per million) or Twilio push (10000 free per month, then 0.00025 each)?

https://aws.amazon.com/sns/pricing/

https://www.twilio.com/notify/pricing

Hi, I'll copy the same answer from a previous post ( https://new.reddit.com/r/devops/comments/bmujjg/made_a_new_n... ):

Amazon SNS is not a competitor of Notify17 in first place, because SNS is a general purpose publish-subscribe system, while Notify17 is a solution that accepts HTTP payloads, and processes them to generate notifications, which you can see in a web browser or on the iOS app (in future also Android one). They're conceptually a lot different.

Because of this core difference, I cannot say there's any plan to compete with SNS.

Thank you for the quick reply. I see what you mean and I'm excited to begin using this. I'll definitely send some emails if I find any bugs or have any ideas, best of luck to you!

Thanks a lot! :D

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