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I agree. The idea is great, and would save some dev time and learning about various communication streams, but it's not affordable. Were we to switch to MessagePub just for the e-mails we send from JamLegend for friend requests, challenges, referrals, new songs, etc, our communication costs would increase by 600%. For reference, we use sent.com at a price of $25 for 6 months, which lets us send up to 2K messages/hour. Paying $2500/month would be a vertical hike from $4.16/month. I know your pricing page lists that custom solutions are available for high volume, but I can't imagine that the price would come down enough to be reasonable. So, I think the idea of one service to hit your users on whatever communication medium they like is cool, but the pricing isn't affordable at scale. Think about it like this: if somebody else had built MessagePub, could you afford to have ShareMeme use it? It makes more sense for products that don't send a lot of messages, and need to be able to send to all sorts of devices. One example that comes to mind is for server monitoring: if a server is misbehaving, you want to be notified, and if you don't see the first message, the message needs to escalate quickly on multiple mediums, perhaps to other people. |