From SaaS Frustration to Full Control: Why We Built LaraPush

Do you recall the excitement of finding a growth hack that appeared to be nearly too perfect? We felt that way with push notifications. If a reader just one-clicks, then you would have an instant connection with them, no filters, no questionable email open rates - just a tap, and they visit your site again.

Initially, it was like a miracle. However, what was once a straightforward and potent instrument gradually turned into a dilemma: the “free plan” that was not, and the bitter acknowledgement that we did not have full ownership of our audience.

The Free Plan Trap

Like most people, we started with OneSignal. It was easy, popular, and — best of all free to begin. Subscribers rolled in, traffic jumped, and we thought we’d found the ultimate growth engine.

But then reality hit. As our audience grew, so did the limitations. Features we assumed were standard sat behind a paywall. “Free forever” slowly morphed into yet another SaaS subscription, with costs climbing month by month. It felt like we were on a treadmill, constantly nudged toward upgrades just to keep basic functionality.

Losing Control of Our Audience

The bigger issue wasn’t the money. It was ownership. All of our subscribers, our hard-won audience, were sitting on someone else’s servers. We were bound by their branding, their downtime, and their rules.

It felt like building a house on rented land. Sure, we could decorate it, improve it, and live in it, but at the end of the day, it wasn’t really ours.

That was the turning point. Instead of accepting those limits, we asked ourselves a simple question:

What would push notifications look like if creators actually owned them?
Building LaraPush: Taking Back Ownership
That question led us to build LaraPush

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