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I think we're talking past each other here. I live in SF and it is not at all clear to me how expanding access to guns would either help or hurt the homelessness challenges in the …

What I don't understand is how your comment connects to the comment you were replying to.

You want to solve "seeing a lot of, very obviously mentally ill, homeless people" by... giving more people guns?

This is true for options but not RSUs.

Courier | Full-Stack, Data, and Mobile Engineers | U.S. REMOTE / San Francisco Bay Area • We power notification infrastructure for software companies like LaunchDarkly, UserVoice, …

Yes, especially if you have account-level usage that isn't just a rollup of user usage, e.g. API usage that isn't tied to a user, but to an account that multiple users are members …

This is really clever. There are definitely huge gaps with existing product analytics tools once you veer away from their primary ICP – just ask any B2B PLG company about account-l…

My startup (courier.com • YC S19) was idea-stage and I did not have meaningful pedigree nor had I previously started a successful startup.

Depending on your use case I'd definitely look at Sendbird (YC W16): https://sendbird.com/

Great article. All of this complexity is the reason I started Courier (YC S19) [0], which we just launched on HN [1] a few days ago. :-) We take the approach of essentially offerin…

Ooooh yeah, got it. We have lower per-message prices for customers sending at scale. We have our own hard costs to account for, but we work hard to make sure Courier can fit into m…

I was surprised nobody else pointed this out! No, no pivot. Two main reasons: 1. It took a lot of time to build something robust enough that teams were willing to swap out their cr…

Thanks Chris! Hope things are going well at Loops!

Customer.io is more focused on marketing automation (which your campaign use case sounds like) whereas we're focused on transactional notifications. Next quarter we'll have some re…

10s of the thousands in the same month would indeed move you into our paid plan. If this was more like <10k per month for many months, you'd still be able to do that on our free pl…

I'd love to hear how it goes for you! troy@courier.com

George & the OneSignal team are great. We integrate with OneSignal (both their mobile push and email services). We integrate with more channels than using OneSignal directly (say y…

FWIW we find that most software teams end up significantly rebuilding/refactoring their notification infra every 2-3 years, so it isn't completely a one-time implementation. Not to…