Pushy Blog

New Features

We'd like to share some of the new features that we've pushed to the site in the past few weeks, and features that we'll be releasing very soon.

Languages and Internationalization: We now support multiple languages in our web interface. We've started out with English and Spanish. The Spanish translation is still a missing large parts of the site, but most of the important parts of the interface have been internationalized already. The next language is going to be Portuguese, translated by Alex Marcondes.

Redesigned Homepage: We've done some great graphics work, and our previously bare homepage is now a bit more colourful. We're going to work on improving it even more in the future by embedding the "Getting Started" screencast, including customer testimonials, and more. If you have any comments about it, talk to us on Twitter.

Improved Device Manager: The device manager is better than ever now. There's now a search form for when you have an overwhelmingly large number of devices registered, and we've included a few intuitive keyboard shortcuts to help you work quicker while using the interface. We're still tweaking the design, so that may change over the next few weeks.

Broadcast Notifications: We now support the ability to send a broadcast notification to every single active device registered to your application. It's currently available as an API, read our API documentation for more information on that. We're working on adding support for sending broadcast notifications through the web interface, so look for that in the near future.

Collaborators: We're working on letting owners of an application on Pushy to specify collaborators. Collaborators are able to view the application while logged into their account, and they can use the device manager and have access to API keys. This is really useful if you're developing an iPhone application with a team of developers, as they can now have access to your Pushy application using their own accounts instead of having to all login using one account. We're excited to launch this feature, and you'll see it in the coming weeks.

We hope these features will make your Pushy experience more enjoyable and productive, and we're glad to have you sending your push notifications with us!

Thanks,

Charlie Melbye, Project Manager

Screencast Demo

If you just want to see how Pushy works, check out our latest screencast. In it, I demonstrate how to create an application, upload your push notification certificate, register a device, and send a notification.

Sorry that the volume is somewhat quiet, I believe the fact that I was using the built-in microphone on my iMac contributed towards that!

Pushy Launch

We're proud to announce that Pushy is now widely available to iPhone developers all over the world to try out! If you don't know yet, Pushy is an intuitive Push Notification broker, and we make it insanely simple to implement Apple's new Push Notification feature into your application.

You might be wondering why you should use our service as opposed to writing your own server to do it yourself. Well, ideally the application that you've put your blood and sweat into will become big someday on the App Store. As it grows, your push notification server will need to accommodate more and more traffic as the application grows. You're a Cocoa Touch developer, so why would you want to focus on scaling a push notification server? Aside from the cost of that, you'll need to dedicate a lot of time which could otherwise be used to make your application better!

At Pushy, we work tirelessly to make sure we route notifications to Apple's servers while keeping up demand, meaning that you can easily take advantage of Push Notifications in your application without all of the hassle. Awesome, eh?

As I said above, Pushy is available today for use by developers, so if you want to get started, check out our website. We're confident that you'll be up and running in no time. We offer a free plan that should be perfect for most applications, and as you grow, you can upgrade to a larger plan at a low cost whenever you'd like. If you find that you don't need a plan that large, you can downgrade just as easily too. What are you waiting for?