Ably

Sells the reconnection, not the websocket.

What it is sold for

Realtime messaging that survives a flaky network.

Named alongside

These entries mention each other by name. It is a weak relationship and it is the only one the catalogue can show without inventing something.

Names:

• Multiplayer
  Connects a coding agent to production signals so it fixes real defects rather than producing speculative changes.

Same shelf

The rest of payments and messaging, alphabetically. Sharing a category is a filing decision, not a relationship.

• Anymail finder
  Finds work email addresses from a name and a domain, and charges only for the ones it can verify.
• Applozic did not answer
  Chat and messaging SDKs. The site presents an expired or misconfigured certificate and would not load.
• Braintree
  PayPal's payment platform for merchants who need cards, wallets and PayPal behind one integration.
• EasyPost
  One API across many carriers for rates, labels and tracking.
• FormSpree
  A form backend for static sites, so an HTML form can submit without any server behind it.
• Heybounce
  Email validation before sending, protecting sender reputation from hard bounces.
• Hunter.io
  Finds and verifies professional email addresses from a domain, one of the older tools in this category.
• Imitate Email
  Captures outbound mail in development so a test run cannot reach a real inbox.

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