Courier — API, designer, and metrics for messaging & notifications

At Vaporware, we're huge fans of Courier. We're constantly developing MVPs and iterating quickly, and a full-fledged Notification system where developers just send data events (or better yet, just use segment events) and product managers can quickly iterate on design and content for email and SMS channels has been huge. Doing all of that in 30 minutes takes us from 0 to hero for our startups. Better yet? B2B SaaS companies love it since we can do white-labeling through their branding, complex batching or weekly digests through their automations, and even in-app notifications/preference management which took weeks to build from scratch. Oh, and it scales. Swap in providers at-will to improve deliverability or get better pricing. It's 100% in our toolbox and isn't going away any time soon. This is a "duh" product for any development team.

Congratulations, this definitely seems to be something useful! As for you question, I think Amazon does a good job of reminding me of my deliveries. And Duolingo does a great job in the copy of their notifications. They're good a guilt tripping you to practice your new language!

Hello Product Hunt! The rest of the Courier team and I have been building an exciting new way to design, send, and monitor all of your app's user notifications. As you may have heard in my video above, we understand that notifications are difficult to get right. So much so that most of us aren't excited about receiving many of them. Today, we are proud to launch our single API to manage all of your messaging APIs and a clever, easy to use design studio. Courier's UI unites product and engineering to have power over their notifications strategy. Wuphf was one of The Office's funniest bits many years ago, but was also a surprisingly relevant idea. We don't want to miss important notifications, so it triggers alerts to your cell phone, home phone, email, Facebook, Twitter, and fax. Being plugged into every provider is the correct next step, but where they got it jokingly wrong was sending it to every provider at the same time. Our platform ensures notifications are sent through the right channel at the right time, minimizing distracting and annoying notifications. I'm sure some of you caught this last week. HBOmax -Integration Test Email #1 World famous, this team would have had a much easier time testing in Courier's test environment, before pushing to production! We would love to hear what you think, and encourage you to check out all of our API endpoints and Design Studio. Those are where the dreams come true. API Docs - https://bit.ly/2TZ9dy7 Design Studio- https://bit.ly/3j6o3NY

A long-time user of Courier. Huge fan of the product. Courier makes it so easy to make great-looking notifications that can be delivered through any channel. Has saved our eng team 100+ hours of engineering work to date. Congrats @troygoode!

Congrats on the launch! We are built on top of multiple ESPs, so definitely see the value in this! Will take a look at pricing and decide if it makes sense for us.

We've been using Courier for months and have nothing but good things to say -- Courier has saved our small team an incredible amount of time, allowing us to focus on our own product rather than notifications. In addition to a great product, the team goes above and beyond, constantly launching new features, and really prioritizing feature requests we've had. Thanks @troygoode and team!!

Big big fan of Courier! The first time I heard about it I had my “oh of course that’s how we should be handling notifications” moment. The product/API experience is extremely well crafted and followed up by insanely engaged and humane support. This team has been building quality features at a blistering clip, and has helped us eliminate thousands of lines of wonky code and templates, and our customers notifications are more professional than ever. So like I said, big fan :)

We've been using Courier for almost a year now, great product, exactly what we needed, the team gets it!

We’ve been using Courier to send all of our notifications. The notification designer makes it extremely easy for anyone on the team to update copy and the level of support from the whole team is unmatched.

We partnered with Courier close to a year ago now and have been completely blown away by the stability of their offering, the commitment to their customer, and the speed at which they are developing the product. It's very clear that the customer voice is their first priority. I have nothing but great things to say about their team and their product. Very proud of the work @troygoode and the team have done to date and very much looking forward to seeing where they invest in the future!

Congrats on the launch! It's been great building out our first notification flow to notify users when their videos are ready to review. We were up and running in about a half hour.

We've been using Courier for over a year now, and it's probably saved us more pain (and time!) than any other single platform that we use. The product is getting better all the time, and @troygoode and his team are incredible!

Courier makes sending transactional emails as seamless as…uh, can’t think of anything as seamless. 10/10 would use it again.

We ( Lattice ) were one of Courier's first customers and we've loved it from day 0. Before Courier we were spending tons of time integrating with every delivery platform every-time a customer requested a new connection from us. But now it's as easy as just a new API call. So so excited about this launch, huge congratz to the Courier team!

We use Courier for Quickcard.com and it's absolutely an amazing product. The GUI is easy to use, the Code is beautifully documented, and the analytics are an extra plus.

You asked for apps that do a terrible job of notifications. I think Clubhouse is so incredibly overwhelming that people just turn it off, to the point where I'm missing great conversations in their app because I would rather not get any more notifications from them. When I did have them on, I was getting dozens per day, and very quickly stopped reading any of them. I think one app the does notifications really well is Headspace. Sometimes it not just a call to action, but a gentle or friendly reminder, something that doesn't require me going into the app to get value. Good luck with Courier!

Huge fan of Courier, been using their product since day 1 at Canyon. Their team is shipping blazingly fast and very open to feedback. Courier is typically the platform that once discovered you can't live without. A bit like Stripe for payments, Postmark for mails, Courier now is part of my basic toolkit for any new serious dev project.

Troy is building a super valuable service! We can't wait to start using it for our notification and collaboration products at RevOps.

This product is long overdue, as engineers are remaking this solution over and over again. @troygoode and his team at Courier have created the ultimate messaging layer, to work seamlessly with your solution. My team at Veryable will be implementing the solution later this year, and we cannot wait to get it live in production. Kudos on the launch guys!

Congrats! Troy + team have been stellar; Courier was great from the get-go (we've been using them for a while now), and it's amazing quickly it's getting better.