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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.
I'm Max Williams, CEO of Pusher, and I wanted to add a quick comment to this.
Having your domain name expire is pretty high on the list of most embarrassing things to cause issues. The reality of the situation is that registering a domain comes quite early in a company's history, before you have some of the information management systems in place. In our case, the reminder emails went to a single individual, who somehow managed to miss them. We have changed the contact details, and will be doing a post-mortem to make sure similar scenarios are covered in our integration tests.
It certainly doesn't indicate any lack of care for the reliability of the service. It's simply the result of a ridiculous administrative failing.
I am very sorry for any inconvenience caused.
Thanks! I don't think we've met, come over and say hello at some point!
Hi, I'm Max Williams.
Damien and I own/founded all 3 companies at the moment. The CEO of New Bamboo is called Gwyn Morfey, he runs that company full time. Future plans for Panda are not generally being discussed publicly :)
Pusher is where Damien and I spend 99% of our time.
Max
Sounds like a bit of a bug.
There may be minor glitches in the demo apps. They haven't been where we've been focussing the majority of our energy :)
Glad you think it's cool, we are pretty excited.
Authentication and access control are features which are very important, and we are working on a couple of options for doing it. Something similar to what you have described is the current favourite, though the hashing probably won't be passed through at channel level.
We decided to get the Pusher launched into beta with stuff like this left out so that we could get a gauge for people's general enthusiasm for such a service.
We'll be busy in the next couple of weeks reacting to feedback, so it is great to have these kind of comments :)