Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO

Post by robertvis » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 9:33 PM UTC

vasilakisfil wrote: post #66

I am surprised that for smaller countries there is such big difference between Twilio and MessageBird. For instance, for Albania, in Twilio, the per-number price is $1.0, and inbound sms are not even supported. On the other hand for MessageBird the per-number price is $32/month (!) while inbound sms are free. Feels like MessageBird has more "real" numbers. Edit: For which ever country I choose from, they always have…

Post by robertvis » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 9:34 PM UTC

perennate wrote: post #67

perennate wrote: post #40

Would consider using them but Taiwan is not a province of China ( https://messagebird.com/en/numbers/ ). If a company has has many factual errors on their website like this, then I cannot trust their service to be reliable.

They have since updated this! I will give them a serious consideration since I could really use a good Twilio alternative.

Post by robertvis » Thu, Jun 25, 2020, 9:37 PM UTC

dsincl12 wrote: post #30

thijsvandien wrote: post #25

I've been a happy customer for years. Their services work well. Unfortunately, the same cannot be said (anymore) about their dashboard. Slow, unreliable, buggy... I got really close to trying Twilio this time. It concerns me when companies want to grow faster when it seems they are having problems with having grown too fast already.

I've had the exact opposite experience. I don't know how many 200 OK I've received but the message was never delivered (and soooo many times during vital demos). I had several support cases with them and they simply ignored me. My product is built around SMS so I could have been easy money for them if it actually worked reliably. I ditched them for Twilio, never had any issues since then. A couple of months later som…

Post by shell0x » Fri, Jun 26, 2020, 7:21 AM UTC

robertvis wrote: post #74

shell0x wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Upvoted. Thanks for pointing that out. As someone who lived in Taiwan and has friends there that's a big issue. Taiwan has democracy, doesn't threaten its neighbours, has a working legal system, respects human rights, and has an educated population with access to the free world. Calling it part of China is highly offensive and bowing down to the communist propaganda is simply unacceptable. They have Huawei as a clien…

Its an honest mistake and we’ll correct it.

Post by eric_khun » Mon, Jun 29, 2020, 7:07 AM UTC

shell0x wrote: post #46

perennate wrote: post #40

Would consider using them but Taiwan is not a province of China ( https://messagebird.com/en/numbers/ ). If a company has has many factual errors on their website like this, then I cannot trust their service to be reliable.

Upvoted. Thanks for pointing that out. As someone who lived in Taiwan and has friends there that's a big issue. Taiwan has democracy, doesn't threaten its neighbours, has a working legal system, respects human rights, and has an educated population with access to the free world. Calling it part of China is highly offensive and bowing down to the communist propaganda is simply unacceptable. They have Huawei as a clien…