Pusher Push Notifications API - Send push notifications programmatically at scale

@jordan_qj @mscccc OneSignal offers its service for free & there're SDKs for many platforms. But OneSignal also hurts its customers due to poor segmentation control. For ex: they don't allow to set conditions with regex (every conditions are based on string & datetime), no autocompleting for saved tags .. At the moment, we have around 400k subscribed devices on OneSignal & every time we try to create new segments, it's pain every time. Notifications are one of effective (!) marketing channel now so that our marketing team really need a way to measure their campaigns & users' behaviors after they were invoked into anyone. One Signal does not offer this since it's a hub to send notifications only.

@dtlvan Hey Mak. I'm one of the founders of OneSignal and we greatly appreciate this feedback. We've designed our custom tags system to be very flexible by not limiting the number of possible tag keys, as well as supporting "not equal", "less than [number]", and "greater than [number]" operations. This does have the side effect of preventing us from easily autocompleting tag names since there's no limit on the number of possible names. Nevertheless, we're always seeking to make this better. Our segmentation tools are currently undergoing several improvements at this moment and I'd like to make sure that your frustrations go away after these improvements. Could you get in touch with me at george@onesignal.com with some examples of segments that you've found difficult to create? As for measuring post-notification behavior, OneSignal integrates with all mobile analytics tools. We provide callbacks that can be invoked both when a notification is received and when it is clicked, and these callbacks can be used to send events to the analytics system of your choice. OneSignal already reports notification clicks on our dashboard, and we will soon be providing data on influenced opens and post-notification behavior on the dashboard as well.

@marioperezp_ I appreciate the feedback, we're looking into it!

@jordan_qj @marioperezp_ I will definitely use it if it's cordova compatible.

Awesome - I think we're paying $50/mo for Pushwoosh right now. How does this compare?

@jordan_qj I am curious too.

@jacoplane firebase Android SDK requires Google Play services makes your app not usable in most phones in China. No worry if China is not your target market.

@jacoplane We just released support for Firebase Cloud Messaging, meaning that our API lets you send to APNs, GCM, and FCM with one simple Pub/sub subscription model. http://bit.ly/FCM-MPN

@jacoplane @jaxondu When I test in the phone that cannot have Google Play Service, push notification didn't work. But it is work on the phone that have google play service.

@sacbookreviewer You are looking at the pricing for our Pubsub Messaging Gateway.

@kzynakamura Pusher's Realtime API, which we are working on integrating with Push Notifications, is a hosted solution that powers the delivery of realtime data from your server to your clients over websockets. Over 100,000 developers and companies like Uber, Doordash, and The New York Times to build scalable and reliable realtime features such as cars moving on a map, messages in a chat, or votes in an election.

Glad to get thoughts from @jordan_qj, love using Pusher in our apps! @kzynakamura the big thing from OneSignal is all the platforms they support today, especially up-and-coming tech like web push.