For people looking to pull the same thing off on iOS, check out Prowl (http://www.prowlapp.com). It's designed to forward your mac's Growl notifications to your iPhone, but they also have an http endpoint you can use to trigger push notifications. I've been using it for the last 2 years to notify me of events on my server, just like Instapush.
After browsing the site, I'm left with 2 questions: What does this service offer that makes it more desirable than the whole crowd of other Notification-As-A-Service providers, and how do I make an API call to it? It doesn't look like there are API docs, so I would need to dissect one of their linked wrappers.
as far as I understand. It's especially interesting for product/apps/services owners to follow up on transactions that they find important. And about API there's a raw CURL right there
curl -X POST \
-H "x-instapush-appid: 529e45aa128773e72b8b4567" \
-H "x-instapush-appsecret: e5aaf9c65ce78d67718e68557e31ad66" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"event":"registeration", "trackers":{"email":"someone@somewhere.com","country":"US"}}' \
http://api.instapush.im/post
The whole point of the service is to basically relay HTTP calls to push notifications but you only support 1 of the 2 main mobile platforms? Am I not seeing the iOS client or is this Android only?
Also, no pricing page. Will this be a pay-only service after beta or freemium or free?
you are right about http. it should be https, I'll pass it on. But request is already authorized with headers? you can email them info@instapush.im and let them know how you'd love to do it, I'm sure they will listen.
Their python wrapper for their service is a complete mess. If it is a indicator as to the code quality of the rest of their product I would not depend on it for anything important.