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hub, Red, Marvel, Twilio, and Twilio SendGrid are the most popular alternatives and competitors to Switch.
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What is Switch and what are its top alternatives?

Switch is a digital media player that allows users to stream TV shows, movies, and music from various sources like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify. It provides a user-friendly interface and supports 4K resolution streaming. However, Switch lacks some popular streaming app support and may not have as vast a content library as other streaming devices.

  1. Roku: Roku offers a wide range of streaming devices with thousands of channels, including popular services like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. It also provides a user-friendly interface and excellent search capabilities. However, Roku may lack support for some niche streaming services.
  2. Apple TV: Apple TV allows users to stream content from iTunes, Netflix, and other popular services. It offers high-quality 4K HDR streaming and supports Apple's ecosystem of apps and services. However, Apple TV is more expensive than some other streaming devices.
  3. Amazon Fire TV: Amazon Fire TV provides access to a vast library of apps and channels, including Amazon Prime Video and Netflix. It also supports 4K HDR streaming and includes Alexa voice assistant integration. However, the interface can be overwhelming for some users.
  4. Google Chromecast: Google Chromecast allows users to stream content from their smartphone or computer to their TV. It offers a simple setup process and supports popular streaming services like YouTube and Spotify. However, Chromecast lacks a dedicated remote control and may not be as user-friendly for all users.
  5. Nvidia Shield TV: Nvidia Shield TV is a powerful streaming device that supports 4K HDR streaming and includes a built-in Google Assistant. It also offers access to a wide range of apps and games through the Google Play Store. However, Nvidia Shield TV is more expensive than some other streaming devices.
  6. Samsung Smart TV: Samsung Smart TV allows users to stream content from various apps and services directly on their TV. It offers a sleek interface and supports popular streaming services like Netflix and Hulu. However, Samsung Smart TV may be limited by the apps available on its platform.
  7. Sony PlayStation 5: Sony PlayStation 5 features a built-in Blu-ray player and allows users to stream content from popular services like Netflix and Disney+. It also offers immersive gaming experiences and supports 4K HDR streaming. However, PlayStation 5 is primarily a gaming console and may not offer as robust streaming features as dedicated media players.
  8. Xbox Series X: Xbox Series X includes a built-in 4K Blu-ray player and supports streaming from popular services like Netflix and Hulu. It also offers a wide range of gaming options and integrates with Microsoft's ecosystem of apps and services. However, Xbox Series X is primarily a gaming console and may not be the best option for dedicated streaming.
  9. Chromecast with Google TV: Chromecast with Google TV combines the simplicity of Chromecast with a dedicated remote and interface for easy navigation. It supports popular streaming services and offers personalized recommendations. However, some users may find the interface cluttered compared to other streaming devices.
  10. Mi Box S: Mi Box S is an affordable streaming device that supports 4K HDR streaming and includes a voice remote with Google Assistant. It offers access to popular streaming services and a user-friendly interface. However, Mi Box S may lack some advanced features found in more premium streaming devices.

Top Alternatives to Switch

  • hub
    hub

    hub is a command line tool that wraps git in order to extend it with extra features and commands that make working with GitHub easier. ...

  • Red
    Red

    It is both an imperative and functional programming language. Its syntax and general usage overlaps that of the interpreted Rebol language. ...

  • Marvel
    Marvel

    A super simple tool that turns any image (including PSDs) or sketch into interactive prototypes for any device. Powered by Dropbox. ...

  • Twilio
    Twilio

    Twilio offers developers a powerful API for phone services to make and receive phone calls, and send and receive text messages. Their product allows programmers to more easily integrate various communication methods into their software and programs. ...

  • Twilio SendGrid
    Twilio SendGrid

    Twilio SendGrid's cloud-based email infrastructure relieves businesses of the cost and complexity of maintaining custom email systems. Twilio SendGrid provides reliable delivery, scalability & real-time analytics along with flexible API's. ...

  • Amazon SES
    Amazon SES

    Amazon SES eliminates the complexity and expense of building an in-house email solution or licensing, installing, and operating a third-party email service. The service integrates with other AWS services, making it easy to send emails from applications being hosted on services such as Amazon EC2. ...

  • Mailgun
    Mailgun

    Mailgun is a set of powerful APIs that allow you to send, receive, track and store email effortlessly. ...

  • Mandrill
    Mandrill

    Mandrill is a new way for apps to send transactional email. It runs on the delivery infrastructure that powers MailChimp. ...

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hub

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          Powerful, simple, and well documented api
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          Clear pricing
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          Great sms services
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          Low cost of entry
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          Global SMS Gateway
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          Good value
        • 12
          Cloud IVR
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          Simple
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          Extremely simple to integrate with rails
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          Great for startups
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          SMS
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          Great developer program
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          Hassle free
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          Text me the app pages
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          New Features constantly rolling out
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          Many deployment options, from build from scratch to buy
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          Easy integration
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        Hi, We are looking to implement 2FA - so that users would be sent a Verification code over their Email and SMS to their phone.

        We faced some limitations with Amazon SNS where we could either send the verification code to email OR to the phone number, while we want to send it to both.

        We also are looking to make the 2FA more flexible by adding any other options later on.

        What are the best alternatives to SNS for this use case and purpose? Looked at Twilio but want to explore other options before making a decision.

        Would be great to know what the experience with Twilio has been, especially the limitations/issues with Twilio...

        Appreciate any input from users of Twilio and others who have had similar use cases.

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        Cheri Booth
        Vendor Relationship Manager at Storage Asset Management · | 6 upvotes · 102K views
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        Searching for options for SMS that integrates with SiteLink and will allow personalization of text and tracking of both incoming/outgoing messages with reporting (Time, date, call#, etc) Have been looking at Twilio, and seems most leaning toward this. Are there any other options known that integrate into SiteLink? Also looked at Clickatell.

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        Twilio SendGrid

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          Cheap and simple
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          Easy email integration!
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          Reliable
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          Well-documented
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          Generous free allowance to get you started
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          Trackable
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          Heroku add-on
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          Azure add-on
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          Better support for third party integrations
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          Simple installation
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          Free plan
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          Helpful evangelist staff
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          Great client libraries
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          Great support
        • 3
          Better customer support than the competition
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          Great add-ons
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          Nice dashboard
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          Scalable
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          Web editor for templates
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          Cool setup
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          Within integration
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          Easy set up
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          Free
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          Great customer support
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          Google cloud messaging
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          Google analytics integration is not campaign-specific
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          Shared IP blacklist removal takes months
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        Luke Hamilton
        Sr. Engineer at StackShare · | 4 upvotes · 113.3K views

        At StackShare we were discussing how to increase the retention of our newly signed up users. We hypothesized that if we made certain changes to the emails in our on-boarding process we could increase our retention and activation of users.

        We decided to use sendwithus because it offered us the ability to A/B test our transactional emails. We also utilized the sendwithus analytics dashboard to gain real time insight into the performance of our email campaigns. Furthermore sendwithus has a Rails gem that allowed us to easily integrate the product into our application. We were also able to integrate sendwithus with our SendGrid account. #ABTestingAnalytics #TransactionalEmail

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        Julien DeFrance
        Principal Software Engineer at Tophatter · | 3 upvotes · 580K views

        Nexmo vs Twilio ?

        Back in the early days at SmartZip Analytics, that evaluation had - for whatever reason - been made by Product Management. Some developers might have been consulted, but we hadn't made the final call and some key engineering aspects of it were omitted.

        When revamping the platform, I made sure to flip the decision process how it should be. Business provided an input but Engineering lead the way and has the final say on all implementation matters. My engineers and I decided on re-evaluating the criteria and vendor selection. Not only did we need SMS support, but were we not thinking about #VoiceAndSms support as the use cases evolved.

        Also, on an engineering standpoint, SDK mattered. Nexmo didn't have any. Twilio did. No-one would ever want to re-build from scratch integration layers vendors should naturally come up with and provide their customers with.

        Twilio won on all fronts. Including costs and implementation timelines. No-one even noticed the vendor switch.

        Many years later, Twilio demonstrated its position as a leader by holding conferences in the Bay Area, announcing features like Twilio Functions. Even acquired Authy which we also used for 2FA. Twilio's growth has been amazing. Its recent acquisition of SendGrid continues to show it.

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        Amazon SES

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        Bulk and transactional email-sending service.
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          Cheap
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          Integrates with other aws services
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          Easy setup
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          Easy rails setup
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          We decided to use AWS Lambda for several serverless tasks such as

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          • Processing emails received on Amazon SES and stored to Amazon S3 and notified via Amazon SNS, so as to push a message on our Redis so our Sidekiq Rails workers can process inbound emails
          • Pushing some relevant Amazon CloudWatch metrics and alarms to Slack
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          I would like to know how I can implement a transactional email, or if it is possible to do so, like Mailchimp, using Amazon SES. I want to have the flexibility of creating emails like MailChimp, with a bulk email sending capability. Is it as simple with AWS SES as it is with MailChimp? If so, then how can I implement that for my own product? Thanks!

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          The Email Service for Developers.
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            Quick email integration
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            Free plan
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            Easy setup
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            Ridiculously reliable
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            Extensive apis
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            Great for parsing inbound emails
          • 25
            Nice UI
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            Developer-centric
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            Excellent customer support
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            Heroku Add-on
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            Easy to view logs of sent emails
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            Email mailbox management for developers
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            Great PHP library
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            Great documentation
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            Great customer support, love rackspace
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            Better than sendgrid not ask too many question
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            Cost
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            No HTTPS tracking links supported
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            Emails go to spam due to blacklisted IP's of mailgun
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            Cannot create multiple api keys

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          We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

          However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

          Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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          Mandrill

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          Send transactional, triggered, and personalized email, then track results.
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            Generous free allowance to get you started
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            Cheap and simple
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            Trackable
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            Well-documented
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            Doesn't go to spam
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            Great for mailchimp users
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            Webhooks
          • 28
            Client libraries
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            Heroku Add-on
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            Easy to use
          • 5
            Meaningful Metrics
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            Free
          • 3
            Advanced Tagging and Reports
          • 3
            Mobile Access
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            Status Update
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            Very chimp-like
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            Great Documentation
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            love this service
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            Free Plan
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            Webhooks for bounce mail
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            Really hard to pull analytics out via api

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          We've moved our transactional email away from Mandrill to Mailgun. We had continued using Mandrill after Mailchimp deprecated the service awhile back, because the amount of credits we were offered essentially made it free.

          However, following a couple weeks of frequent downtime and poor service transparency from Mandrill, we decided it was time to make the switch. It appears they no longer had any engineers with the ability to identify the core problems.

          Mailgun has been more reliable, yet not as reliable as we expected. We still see issues a few times per week with the API failing when we attempt to make a call. The Reporting UI is way better.

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          Hi, I've noticed my Mandrill emails are being received fine but my Mailchimp emails, about 75% are going into junk mail. I was wondering is it possible I have missed some sort of integration or can I send my Mailchimp marketing emails via mandrill?

          Need help to somehow reduce the number of my emails going into junk mail, can someone help?

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