Notifizz - Notification center for SAAS
Increase user engagement with Notification center
I'm Jérémie, CTO of Notifizz. 3 founders. Bootstrapped. Built from France. We just turned down our first VC offer.
Here's the bet.
The notification market has two camps. Both are broken.
Camp 1: dev-only tools (Knock, Novu)
Every campaign means a code deployment. Every variable change is a ticket for engineering. Marketing is locked out by design.
Camp 2: marketing-first tools (Customerio, Braze)
6-month integration projects. Specialist consultants. Your entire user base mirrored into their cloud. You save engineering time and pay it back in GDPR exposure.
Result: dev, product, and marketing fight over the same notification from three different views.
Our bet: truly event-driven. Nobody actually does this today.
- Plug into any product event you already emit. No modification.
- Fetch fresh data at the moment of sending. No caching. No sync.
- Never duplicate the user base. Data stays in your infrastructure. Always.
Marketing ships a complex production campaign in 3 clicks. Devs keep full ownership of the events. Product sees everything in one cockpit.
Each team gets a dedicated AI agent for their workflow.
Where we are
- 3 co-founders (dev, stats, UX)
- Fully bootstrapped
- 1 pilot client live, not paying yet
- 0 paying customers
- 0 dollars raised, 1 VC offer declined
- GTM: France first, Italy from year 2
Our competitors are public companies and Series-B+ scale-ups. We're 3 people with no funding and no pressure to grow fast.
Going slow on purpose. This market needs patient, deep building. Not a runway clock.
Curious how other bootstrappers approach pacing when the incumbents have unlimited fuel. And for anyone who shipped notifications at scale: when did you realize your stack was wrong?
I build a Notification Center, to embed in all web or mobile SaaS applications that require sending notifications to their users for better engagement. 💬💻
Why do I choose to build a Notification center Product: market, competitors, proof? 🤔💡
- Notification Market 📈💰
The notification market value is 10B in 2022. 20% growth is expected between 2023 and 2030. Software and services are 30% of the market. 💼💸
The market is mainly built around push notification, mobile notification center, and incentive notifications to pop up to website visitors' incentive offers. My project (still without name) focuses on a next segment: notifications to and from signed-up users only. This new segment is a risk because potentially need could not exists.
I have already needed it as CTO in 2 companies, and it was clearly a pain. Product owner, UX, and dev had no easy solution. Both times we ended with poor designed and poor featured notification solution with no full preference notification system and RGPD support. I was ready to pay 100/month if I found a solution that solved this mess. 💡💰💻
There are 30,000 SaaS companies in the world. 1,500 in France (interesting to look at my country). 🌎🇫🇷
- Competitors 🆚
All products that help with activation, retention, and referral are competitors. Lots of products here. 🤝👥
- Proof ✔️
I was very interested to discover that LinkedIn Growth is largely based on Notification. I share the screenshot but you can read more directly in the LinkedIn SlideShare. All their growth is explained. Ask in comments if you want the SlideShare link. 📈💼👀
- Next steps! 👉🏽🚀
Still have to define clear features, validate idea and achieve Product Market Fit!" 💪🏽💡
That's why we created https://notifizz.com
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