Despite the politically deteriorating and the economically failing situation in Egypt some Egyptians are striving to create their own slightly different reality. PushBots, a mobile notifications SaaS startup goes today past the one billion notifications mark. The startup that grew in the Flat6labs Egyptian incubator is a mobile engagement platform that aspires to help mobile app creators to effectively communicate and engage their audience through push notifications. “The future is increasingly mobile” says Amr Sobhy, the founder and CEO, who happens to be a pharmacy graduate who started PushBots with a self-taught technology geek and medical student Abdullah Diaa, CTO of PushBots. Another proof you don’t need an engineering degree to start a sophisticated mobile service serving millions of mobile users, “We have dozens of mobile apps on our devices, but how many do we really use? a handful. Why? because they have an added value and they are able to send us notifications that make sense to us and make us open those apps and engage” he adds. “If an app doesn’t have an added value, nothing will help, but if it needs a way to communicate PushBots will…
