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Comment by troygoode | Hacker News Reader

Hey Hana – I love what you're doing with in-app. Congrats on YC!

Courier (https://www.courier.com) is also in this space, but we're focused on other channels like email, Slack, SMS, MS Teams, SMS, etc. as well as handling orchestration capabilities around lists, preferences, and sequences. I'm pretty confident you & I started Magicbell & Courier for the same reason: we were both tired of seeing this have to be built over and over.

Glad to see the space is heating up!

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Thanks for dropping by Troy! Like you mentioned, we are very focused on the in-app piece as being the gateway to other features (notification preference, asking for permission to push). We believe that our customers shouldn't have to think about channels and how to orchestrate the notification flow. That's something MagicBell should figure out for them.

I am super impressed by your execution and hope to catch up in person once this pandemic is over. It is indeed great to see good solution in this space :)

I built this for Airbnb and Courier is creating exactly what we had to have dozens of engineers building for us full-time over a span of 7 years. We are still building it and maintaining it today, but if Courier was around earlier in the days of Airbnb, we would've just used Courier instead of build it in-house and maintain it ourselves.

Big fans of Courier. We use it at Calixa(https://calixa.io) to power our email and Slack notifications to customers. My eng team found it super easy to integrate.

We are just thinking about adding in-app notifications so will have to check out MagicBell. Looks cool. Congrats on launch.

+1. Using Courier at Stable (https://www.useStable.com) as well + it's saved us a ton of dev time!

+1 for courier! we at Glimpse (https://www.joinglimpse.com) needed a few new endpoints/features, and the team jumped on to help us launch quickly. great product and even better team behind it.

Were also using Courier at laserfocus (https://laserfocus.io) for e-mail and it has been fantastic so far.

+1, we are happy customers of Courier at LaunchDarkly!

Great to see more startups in this space. Courier are awesome! And congrats to MagicBell, looking forward to trying it out

We're just integrating with Courier now!

+1 for Courier! Big fan.

We use Courier ourselves and LOVE your product

we've been using courier since early last year and thank god because otherwise we would have spent 75% of the year building like 25% of courier so that we could email our users. one of the first products that I recommend to any software startup, insane how much time they will save you

+1 for Courier!

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