LONDON AND SAN FRANCISCO, 1.11.2018 - Pusher, the leading communications and collaboration API provider, opens a new office in San Francisco and today releases Chatkit to general availability. Chatkit is a chat API solution that comes packed with out-of-the box features to help developers build the best chat experience for mobile and web apps.
Real-time functionality has become a common feature for modern applications, but building it still proves challenging for developers. Pusher has been providing developers with the blocks to develop this functionality into their web and mobile applications for the last seven years. Chatkit incorporates Pusher’s experience of building highly-consistent real-time systems to address the pain points developers have when building messaging features in their applications: customizability, speed, maintenance and most importantly, providing a flawless user experience.
Max Williams, CEO and Co-Founder of Pusher comments:
“In addition to moving closer to our breadth of customers in the US, we are releasing new products to continue to make developers’ live easier. With Chatkit, our goal is to help people converse in a highly-integrated way that doesn’t break them out of the user experience. We’ve built a powerful chat API to provide developers with the tools to quickly build the best communication features to meet the needs of their users.”
Max Williams, CEO and Co-Founder, PusherHaving spent 11 months in public beta, Chatkit has matured as a product and has been used by more than 8,000 developers. Since the beta release, new features have been added to the Chatkit API: core messaging features such as rich media support, roles & permissions, read receipts, and support for the most popular programming languages.
In the last 8 months, Chatkit usage has been growing by 31.49% MOM. The Chatkit customers span different sectors from CRM, hotel management, online dating, and cryptocurrency platforms.
One of the Chatkit early adopters, Kenja, is the most advanced enterprise cloud collaboration platform provider in Japan. Philip Butkiewicz, CTO at Kenja Corporation shares their experience:
“We were already familiar with Pusher’s reliable service. So when we needed a flexible chat solution that we could tailor to our audience’s preferences - we investigated Chatkit. We were impressed by Chatkit’s simplicity as we were able to go from zero to a custom chat solution in just a few days.”
Philip Butkiewicz, CTO, Kenja CorporationPusher currently employs 66 people across the UK and US. Initially based in the offices of investor Heavybit, the US team is planning to grow its marketing, sales and customer support operations to continue to support the growth of the new products that help developers with their most common infrastructure pain points. Pusher is also looking to hire a VP of Marketing and a VP of People to join COO, Sylvain Giuliani in the US office.
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Press Contact: Madalina Grigorie, Communications Manager, Pusher
madalina@pusher.com
+44 (0) 208 068 5538
For more information on Pusher Chatkit visit https://pusher.com/chatkit
Pusher Chatkit on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pusher-chatkit
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About Pusher
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs powering web and mobile applications all over the world. With its core product, Channels, developers can easily create interactive features such as in-app notifications, activity streams, chat, real-time dashboards and multi-user collaborative apps.
Founded by Max Williams, Pusher received $11.5M worth of funding in different rounds from Passion Capital, Bill Lee, Heroku, Saas Capital, Balderton Capital and Heavybit. Pusher has over 250,000 developer customers across 170 countries and is used by everyone, from one-person operations to companies such as The New York Times, Mailchimp, and DraftKings. Every month, we send more than 800 billion messages to 9 billion devices across the world.
For more information: pusher.com
]]>London, UK, 06.09.2018 - Pusher, the leading communications and collaboration API provider, today launches Beams, an API for mobile app developers to ensure delivery of transactional information for their users.
As Google and Apple don't offer guarantees to developers that notifications sent to their iOS and Android gateways will be delivered, developers are left managing and troubleshooting this themselves for their applications.
Beams provides a hosted service to manage the device token lifecycle for iOS and Android applications and Insights to track delivery acknowledgement and open events directly on the device. A Debug Console helps developers troubleshoot issues in real-time.
Over 10,000 developers are sending push notifications with Beams, and notable companies like DraftKings, Dialpad and VirginPulse already use it in their products. With Beams, over 90% of notifications are delivered in under 60 seconds, whether you are sending them to one device or a million.
Jordan Harp, Product Manager at Pusher comments:
“Notifications are the lifeline of an application, but managing the infrastructure behind the scenes is a headache. The well-kept secret of the push notification industry is that no one knows if your transactional notifications actually got delivered. Things like your ride-share driver arriving, a meeting reminder, or a bank transaction might arrive in time or get delivered late - there was no way of checking that.
This is the problem we are solving for our customers. During the the Beta period, we tracked over 1 million delivery acknowledgements to user devices per month. We already know that half of the notifications sent with Beams are opened within a minute and half of being sent.“
With Beams, Pusher is making a long term bet that if notifications can be harmonised with our daily lives. The product roadmap will focus on features that show full transparency in the events lifecycle for push notifications like fallback to emails and in-app notifications.
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Notes to editors:
Press Contact:
Madalina Grigorie
Communications Manager, Pusher
madalina@pusher.com
+44 (0) 208 068 5538
About Beams
Pusher released a push notifications feature in beta in 2016 as a result of feedback received from developers wanting a solution to send push notifications to their mobile apps. The response from the developer community was positive and led to Beams being featured as the product of the day on Product Hunt in August 2016.
For more information on Pusher Beams visit https://pusher.com/beams
Pusher Beams on Product Hunt https://www.producthunt.com/posts/pusher-beams
]]>London, UK - Pusher, the leading communications and collaboration API provider, today released the findings of The State of Kotlin 2018 research report.
During January-March 2018, Pusher launched a survey focused on usage, learning, features, zeitgeist and demographics to take the pulse of the new Kotlin adoption trend in the developer community.
While originally aimed at 1,000 people, Pusher got an overwhelming response from 2,744 developers from all around the world, most of them claiming they liked Kotlin’s features, simplicity and ease of use.
The report’s key findings were:
Zan Markan, Developer Evangelist, Pusher comments:
“We are already seeing developers use Kotlin when building applications with our new products - Beams and Chatkit. We are excited about Kotlin's growth and believe that it will become a benchmark for what a programming language should be able to do - switch between object-oriented (OO), functional, scripting, and declarative paradigms, as well as between Android, web, and native platforms.”
Pusher will continue to promote Kotlin adoption amongst developers and will return in 2019 with another survey focused on the tooling ecosystem.
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Contact:
Madalina Grigorie,
Communications Manager, Pusher
madalina@pusher.com
+44 (0) 208 068 5538
]]>Pusher is joined in this project by great service suppliers like Algolia, Auth0, ButterCMS, Chargebee, Cloudflare, Codeship, DataDog, DigitalOcean, Instabug, MongoDB, Mux.com, Nexmo and SendGrid.
The Pusher Developer Package is one of Pusher’s ways to give back to its developer community around the world, as the company has been working closely with developers since its inception in 2011.
One of the company values is Be Generous, which reflects strongly in the way Pusher interacts with its community of over 250,000 developers. The project will be available to developers to claim during the month of June and it offers free subscription services for up to 1 year. The total value of the Pusher Developer Pack will save developers a $10,000 investment in their technology stack.
Developers can claim free credits and subscriptions for the key APIs they need for their apps, from hosting, realtime communications, data storage and authentication to email, data measurement and search.
Zan Markan, Developer Evangelist, Pusher, comments:
“We are expecting our Developer Package to be a great go-to resource for developers who are either freelancing or working in smaller companies or startups. As Pusher is a company built by developers for developers, we know the key struggles developers go through when starting to build their projects and getting them to market. This is why we want to enable them to have access to the resources they need to build great products and focus on innovation rather than worry about infrastructure.”
Paul Ford, VP of Community Development, SendGrid, comments:
"We are happy to partner with Pusher on this project to help developers build great apps. We care about saving them time and helping them overcome the challenges of reliably delivering emails as their products grow. This is why we are generously providing them with a SendGrid Accelerate PRO Plan for a year and access to free mentorship as well as our global network of accelerators and early-stage VC funds."
Tatiana Morozova, Sr. Digital Marketing Manager at MongoDB comments:
“MongoDB is the leading modern, general purpose database created so developers can focus their time and energy on building great applications, instead of working around the database. We look forward to seeing what people are able to build with MongoDB in the Pusher Developer Package.”
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About Pusher
Pusher is a developer tools company that makes communication and collaboration APIs powering web and mobile applications all over the world. With its core product, Channels, developers can easily create interactive features such as in-app notifications, activity streams, chat, real-time dashboards and multi-user collaborative apps.Pusher was at the forefront of the PaaS revolution that focused on developers as customers, providing them with an amazing developer experience. Built by developers for developers.Our founder and CEO is Max Williams. In 2011, we received $1MM in seed funding from backers like Eileen Burbidge at Passion Capital, Bill Lee (Tesla, SpaceX, Yammer, HootSuite) and the founders of Heroku. In 2016 we received $2.5M of venture debt from Saas Capital. In 2018 we received $8M funding from Balderton Capital and Heavybit.We have over 250,000 developer customers across 170 countries. We’re used by everyone, from one-person operations to companies such as The New York Times, Mailchimp, Intercom and DraftKings. For more information: pusher.com
About SendGrid
Founded in 2009, after graduating from the TechStars program, SendGrid developed an industry-disrupting, cloud-based email service to solve the challenges of reliably delivering emails on behalf of growing companies. Like many great solutions, SendGrid was born from the frustration of three engineers whose application emails didn’t get delivered, so they built an app for email deliverability. Today, SendGrid is responsible for sending billions of emails for some of the best and brightest companies in the world.
About MongoDB
If you want to focus on building apps and spend less time on database admin work, then MongoDB's cloud database service should be your choice. With MongoDB Atlas, you get a fully elastic, secure database with minimal operational overhead.
]]>The increase in message transactions is due to a number of cryptocurrency clients that the company powers, which use realtime message delivery to power trading platforms.
Pusher is at the centre of the cryptocurrency revolution, delivering billions of daily messages for six growing cryptocurrency platforms who process realtime cryptocurrency trades: Bitstamp, Yobit, Korbit, Koinex, Quoine and Bitcoin.co.id.
During December leading to the record day, the message delivery for cryptocurrency platforms had hockey stick growth of six times. In January, the trend has continued with near record volume each day as more users flock to cryptocurrency platforms.
Pusher’s realtime infrastructure helps cryptocurrency platforms to display live information in lists or graphs that support trading (such as price, executed trades, trade orders or trade volumes). Since cryptocurrencies rely on blockchain technology — keeping a ledger of transactions to prevent fraud — that enable investors to trade Bitcoin or Ethereum, Pusher’s cryptocurrency customers need a realtime trading experience which is challenging to support at scale.
Rakesh Yadav, Co-Founder, Koinex, comments:
“Pusher helps us with filling order books, powering real-time tickers, making asynchronous microservice calls, delivering trade match notifications or making announcements. It has proved to be an amazing decision for us so far. On a particular high trading volume day within three weeks of our launch, we delivered over 30 million messages in less than 24 hours.”
William Sutanto, CTO, Bitcoin.co.id comments:
"We implemented Pusher in only a few days and it worked like magic. We had 500,000 members register in the last three months and published over 2.5 billion messages daily. Pusher scaled well and was able to accommodate our traffic without a single downtime.”
Sylvain Giuliani, COO, Pusher:
“Although many cryptocurrency platforms have never experienced this level of demand, Pusher has been handling this kind of load for years. It’s a testament to Pusher’s technical expertise that when a new trend of technology companies emerges, the major players in the category turn to Pusher to meet the demand of millions of users.”
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About Pusher
Pusher is a London-based startup that builds realtime infrastructure powering everything from on-demand delivery platforms to media companies with hundreds of thousands of concurrent users.
Pusher was at the forefront of the PaaS revolution that focused on developers as customers, providing them with an amazing developer experience. Built by developers for developers.
Pusher’s founder and CEO is Max Williams. In 2011, the company received $1M in seed funding from backers like Eileen Burbidge at Passion Capital, Bill Lee (Tesla, SpaceX, Yammer, HootSuite) and the founders of Heroku. In 2016, Pusher received $2.5M of venture debt from Saas Capital.
Pusher has a diversified portfolio of more than 200,000 customers across the tech industry and into the innovative new categories that emerge such as cryptocurrencies entrenches its position further. Pusher is used by a great number of companies, from one-man operations to companies such as FT, MailChimp, Intercom and Draft Kings.
Whether it’s cryptocurrency, AI-powered products, or an innovation that has yet to emerge, Pusher has put itself in a position to be an important technical partner to the innovative technology platforms for years to come.
Contact person:
Madalina Grigorie
Communications Manager
madalina@pusher.com
+44 (0) 208 068 5538
]]>It is a specialised Chat API solution that makes it easy for developers to add cloud-hosted messaging services to their mobile and web apps. Chatkit is the first product the company is launching separately from its core product since its inception in 2011.
The Pusher Chatkit API and SDK are flexible enough to let developers build a multitude of chat features. Whether they are building a game and want to add player-to-player chat or a collaborative tool that needs a way for users to easily communicate, Pusher Chatkit can help get those features in the hands of customers in a short timeframe.
Sylvain Giuliani, COO at Pusher, explains: “Pusher Chatkit is our first step towards becoming a multi-product company. We built Chatkit because, even in 2017, building chat from scratch is still not as easy as it should be. We put everything we’ve learned helping GoGuardian, YouNow, Slaask, FreshDesk and more than 7,000 other developers using our existing API to add chat functionalities to their apps.
This specialised product supports our goal to continue providing developers with building blocks that make them more productive and enable them to focus on what matters to them and their companies - building great products. Solving even more developer pain points is something we are passionate about. We’ll be announcing more products that tackle these challenges in the upcoming months.”
Chatkit is built from the ground-up to deliver a developer-first chat experience. It has features such as granular user roles and permissions, private and public chat rooms, typing indicators, online presence, message history and automatic reconnection. Pusher Chatkit’s product roadmap shows new features that will support users sending rich media such as photos, video, audio, and GIFs by handling uploads, downloads, and hosted storage.
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