When we started Iron.io in 2010, there were basically 3 companies at every developer event driving the API-first message: Heroku, Sendgrid, and Twilio. Back then, most thought Heroku (as the Platform) was going to be the one ending up in the public markets. Then they got taken out and Twilio bought Sendgrid. Congrats to Twilio and team for the years of success!
I used iron.io for years. Sad story there I think but I don’t know the details. Seemed like Great service for years then it kind of fell off, the service still worked thankfully. But no new features, and support would take days.
Thanks for using us! We ended up selling the service to private equity, hence the slowdown in features and support. Was an awesome and fun business to build but running a 24/7/365 service just as all the cloud providers were adding similar products was a slog.
