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		limelight on May 14, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Scaling Secret: Real-Time Chat Secret raised $35M. $399/month is a tiny drop in that bucket. It is almost certainly not a good use of engineering resources for Secret to build their own in-house Pusher alternative, even if it would only take a single engineer a few days.

mrinterweb on May 14, 2015 [–]

I suppose if you have boat loads of cash to burn, a couple thousand a month would not be a big deal. For a bootstrapped startup, money is a concern.

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