We looked at using Pusher but having looked at their financials[0], we decided to implement similar functionality ourselves. Personally, I don't think the business is sustainable since it's trivial to build web socket functionality into an application, and hosting it on AWS or similar PaaS is cheap too.
Relying on this kind of financial data for an early stage company is always a bit risky. AFAICS, this is for the year ending March 2012, when we were significantly smaller than we currently are. We only turned on the ability to pay in August 2011!
Those financials have very little bearing on our current position. For the record, we're now profitable and growing healthily.
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We looked at using Pusher but having looked at their financials[0], we decided to implement similar functionality ourselves. Personally, I don't think the business is sustainable since it's trivial to build web socket functionality into an application, and hosting it on AWS or similar PaaS is cheap too.
[0] https://www.duedil.com/company/07489873/pusher-limited/finan...
Relying on this kind of financial data for an early stage company is always a bit risky. AFAICS, this is for the year ending March 2012, when we were significantly smaller than we currently are. We only turned on the ability to pay in August 2011!
Those financials have very little bearing on our current position. For the record, we're now profitable and growing healthily.