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Looks very slick, also great domain name. I assume you'll be adding more providers.

Does the cost per message include the cost to use the providers service (i.e. sendgrid?)

No, since we use your existing providers ("bring your own") you'd still have to pay for services that you plug in – just like Segment & analytics tools.

I see, so a customer would be paying you to use use their own providers? Not sure I see the value in that, but good luck.

well the cost to build the architecture orchestration is where the real "value" is

Appreciate it! In the future if you find your engineering team is spending a lot of time building & maintaining this kind of infrastructure keep us in mind.

No worries, I get the idea and think it's a great execution of that. Im sure it is/will be a big success especially more so when you have a few more providers.

Are there any providers we don't have that would be helpful? We're always adding more.

Sorry I see you have plenty, thought it said somewhere you only had 4-5.

we have close to 40 providers and our list keeps growing every time either get a request from customer, (regardless they are paying or not) or when a new engineer joins our team. We are growing so by end of year will have to implement pagination for our providers page. :)

Yes I see that, incredible work done you guys have done. Just based on a surface level glance. Surprised this hadn't been done before (great ideas always seems obvious in hindsight), but you guys nailed it. Congrats.

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