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Good for them! I love their service and use it on GoatAttack.com
by breaker05 10y ago
Good for them! I love their service and use it on GoatAttack.com
- jastr 10y agoHaha this is great! I use Twilio for TheSimplePostcard.com
- JoshGlazebrook 10y agoI'd like to be on the team working on printing GIFs please.
- calbear81 10y agoYou would use a lenticular printer for that right? Animated GIFs!
- achairapart 10y agoCompetitors are already ahead of the game: http://gifpop.io/pages/how-it-works http://gifpop.io/pages/how-it-works
- amorphid 10y agoOff topic. GoatAttack is the coolest service of all time.
- mpeg 10y agoYou need to make this stuff international, I was about to throw money at you to goat my enemies.
- BinaryIdiot 10y agoYour company is the new Unicorn. It's so great.
- hwang89 10y agoWould you say they're the Greatest Of All Time? ;)
- enewcomer 10y agoI love goats. Out of curiosity, would you be willing to share how well goat attack packs have been selling?
- breaker05 10y agoWell I've goat to tell you, we send a lot of goats! To give you an idea, since we launched April 2015, we've sent over 2 million messages.
- fizzbatter 10y agoomg, that's amazing! So using this tonight!
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoI get an "Invalid Attack Plan" error when trying this out :(
- breaker05 10y agoshit! I'll figure it out real quick. What plan did you choose?
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoThe 30 one.
- breaker05 10y agoIt's fixed. Sorry we wrote the code for this site drunk in a night.
- sulam 10y agoAs one does.
- Sir_Cmpwn 10y agoIt's all good. Less all good, though, is that I managed to complete an order for the 13 one targetting my coworker and his phone has remained silent since I placed the order. EDIT: I tried the allegedly fixed 30 goat order as well to no avail. EDIT 2: Actually it did work but my coworker's phone is on vibrate and he didn't react as loudly as I had hoped :(
- mikekij 10y agoHoly crap. This is the best $0.89 I've ever spent. I'd like to nominate GoatAttack.com as an IPO candidate. Are you listening, Goldman?
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- imron 10y agoComing soon 100 GoatAttack clones...
- yuncun 10y agoWow nice. This is kind of random, but can I ask how you got/licensed the photos of goats?
- Richard14 10y agoI don't like the fact that I have to give permission for future charges to use Paypal. It should be an option.
- NikolaNovak 10y agoCanada please... there's no end to money I'm throwing your way then :->
- xanamander 10y agoCan confirm, works for Canadian numbers (same country code, and billed the same on the Twilio side of things afaics)
- kylehotchkiss 10y agothis deserves its own Show HN
- m1 10y agoPlease do a UK version, better yet a worldwide version
- Shivetya 10y agookay, I am still laughing and yes I used it just now. Still how do places like yours actually get the word out?
- bcruddy 10y agoWe got pretty big about a year ago when we posted it to /r/internetisbeautiful (mods took it down after about an hour since it requires a phone number and that's "personal info"). From there, @thepacketrat from Arstechnica picked it up and ran a story and it just sort of exploded from there for a couple days. At the peak of it's popularity we were on Ars, Business Insider, the front page of Mashable, and a handful of other outlets I can't remember off the top of my head.
- shostack 10y agoThat's crazy. If you don't mind my asking, does it actually make a decent amount of money? I always wonder whether things like this with very tiny transaction amounts, and (I'm assuming) a low avg. orders/person. Also curious how hard it was to code something like this. I can think of a few less funny things like this that I'd find pretty useful for my own projects and wondering if I have enough skills to make something like this.
- bcruddy 10y agoIt makes a bit of money but not enough to quit a day job. Writing it was super simple. Both Braintree and Twilio have excellent NuGet packages for managing both APIs. I've used Twilio with node as well and same thing, very easy to use module on npm for dealing with their API. If you're thinking about doing something with Twilio stop thinking about it and just go do it. You can send yourself a text message in literally 2 lines of javascript using their npm module, 3 if you include a callback (https://gist.github.com/bcruddy/2a5bb8ac0ee538519a45fc2b39258f05 https://gist.github.com/bcruddy/2a5bb8ac0ee538519a45fc2b3925..., got it down to 2 with a callback).
- shostack 10y ago
- RileyKyeden 10y agoIt's hard to get me to part with my money. I didn't go through with it, but this site almost convinced me to.
- Vekz 10y agoThis is genius
- embarcadero 10y agoNice. But doesn't confirm amount when processing payment.
- ajtaylor 10y agoThat is soooo awesome! Just sent an attack on my wife :)
- schimmy_changa 10y agoJust used this, Breaker05 is probably going to do better from the Twilio IPO than the Twilio employees ... :P
- nilved 10y agoMy friend has been getting spam texts ever since I goat attacked them. Are you selling phone numbers or leaking them?
- rabidonrails 10y agoGreatest service ever! Are you sending out term sheets? ;)