[morgante]

Secret raised $35M.

$399/month is a tiny drop in that bucket. It is almost certainly not a good use of engineering resources for Secret to build their own in-house Pusher alternative, even if it would only take a single engineer a few days.

[mrinterweb]

I suppose if you have boat loads of cash to burn, a couple thousand a month would not be a big deal. For a bootstrapped startup, money is a concern.