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An API-first notification system that gives software products a unified inbox, email, and mobile delivery layer.
about 100 paying customers · paid plans start at $99/month
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Hana Mohan built MagicBell after spending time implementing email and mobile notifications inside SupportBee. The product packages the work into an API and hosted notification layer: a developer can add an in-product inbox, email and text notifications, synchronized read states, and delivery rules. Paid plans begin at $99 monthly and rise to $1,200, with custom enterprise contracts. Mohan described average revenue per customer at about $10,000 annually and said the company had around 100 paying customers. The company launched in November 2020, after a Product Hunt launch, and joined Y Combinator in winter 2021. It raised $4.5 million in a seed round and had an 11-person team at the time of the interview. The customer value metric is monthly active users, with larger contracts also shaped by infrastructure, compliance, data integrations, and support requirements. The strongest lesson is to turn a recurring engineering burden into a focused developer product, then price against the customer value it supports.
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Join the Unicorn Club — $5/moCancel anytime, in one clickData credibility: Founder interview; Hana Mohan reported about 100 paying customers and average revenue per customer around $10,000 annually. The host inferred a run rate from those figures, but Mohan declined to comment on the calculation. Revenue is self-reported and unaudited; no financial dashboard or independent company filing was presented.