About Us
The idea for Pushy was created on June 26, 2009 by Martin Brandenburg, Charlie Melbye, and Robbie Trencheny. The site was put into a limited private beta shortly after, and was made public July 17, 2009.
We all love everything Apple, and we were overjoyed when we saw that the Push Notification service was finally being implemented into iPhone OS 3.0. We were excited to see this feature implemented in our favourite applications, but we realised that it may have been harder to implement into iPhone applications than we previously thought.
iPhone developers have to create their own server to route notifications to Apple's gateway servers, and that requires development time and money which they could otherwise be using to improve their actual application. Furthermore, they would need to maintain their servers and make sure that they scale with the growing demand of the users of their applications.
That's where Pushy came in. We provide an API that's dead simple to use, which makes it easy to implement Push Notifications into your application. We handle scaling and maintenance of the server, while you focus on developing your application. Our prices can't be beat, and our support is legendary, which means that implementing push notifications is no longer as time and money intensive as it used to be. What are you waiting for?
About the team
Martin Brandenburg
Martin makes up for the rest of our lack of HTML and CSS skills by creating an awesome user interface for Pushy. His greatest love is Helvetica (but not Arial!), and his biggest pet peeve is the <br /> tag.
- Title
- Design and Usability Manager
- IRC Nick
- sdkmvx
- Coding languages
- CSS, HTML, XML, Python, C, x86 Assembly
Charlie Melbye
Charlie is responsible for developing and improving the site you're using right now, as well as the control panel and the backend we use for sending notifications. He also takes care of managing different aspects of the project in general.
- Title
- Lead Developer and Project Manager
- IRC Nick
- chuck
- Coding languages
- Ruby, PHP, Objective-C, Javascript, Scala
Robbie Trencheny
Previously involved in other hosting ventures, he has joined the Pushy team in the hopes that he can make the addition of iPhone Push Notifications easier for the end-user.
- Title
- Marketing, Community and Support Manager
- IRC Nick
- robbiet480
- Coding languages
- PHP, Objective-C, Applescript, Javascript, Shell Scripting
Colophon
This site was designed by Martin Brandenburg. The site was edited in Vim and TextMate. It is written in XHTML Strict (with CSS) with Ruby on Rails. We use the famfamfam Silk icon set. The font used is Helvetica, and the logotype is Museo. The logo was designed in Inkscape. The source control management system used is Git. Front page banner design by Alexandre Marcondes. Cannon image by Evan Hicklin.
Pushy is XHTML strict valid and CSS3 valid. If the web application is not rendering properly on a modern and standards-compliant browser, please contact us. If you aren't using a standards-compliant browser, please take a moment to upgrade to Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, or Apple Safari.