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I've always thought there should be more sms based services. It would be a lot easier for me to text the pizza guy than to call...

• Animats 10y ago
  There are some SMS chatbots which answer questions, but few can handle a stateful conversation, even at the level of "do you want fries with that".
• lucb1e 10y ago
  The local pizza and shawarma* shops are always a pain to call. Half the time when they speak I don't understand their broken Dutch and they always sound impatient and don't repeat back, making me wonder whether they know what I want. When I ask for confirmation they sound exasperated, as if I'm asking them to spell out a fifty item order letter by letter. So yeah, sms based service would be great here (or rather, something that doesn't cost money when done internationally). On the other hand, this postcard service sounds like it's going to cost me 20 bucks when I take a picture from another continent, which is exactly the use-case here. A 160 byte sms already costs like a euro to send from outside of the EU. * This is what google translate tells me "shoarma" is in English. I've never seen that word before, not sure it's a thing in America. They're everywhere here.
  • tehwhynot 10y ago
    Well... That's what they're called in Texas! But yeah SMS services are more rare than they should be.
  • Turing_Machine 10y ago
    Gyros (Greek version) is more common in the US, in my experience, but that may vary by region. Arabic -> shawarma, Turkish -> doner, Greek -> gyros -- all the same basic idea of meat cooked on a rotating vertical spit, sliced off and served on flat bread.
    • lucb1e 10y ago
      Gyros we get in greek restaurants; döner is usually sold in the same place as shawarma. Then you do have similar places, okay!