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Show HN: Whispe.rs – Easiest Way to Send Anonymous Text Messages
- RepressedEmu 10y agoHey guys! I built this little tool after seeing all of your wonderful side projects in a recent Ask HN post. I decided it was time I stopped working on multiple large projects that I never wind up finishing and just build something small. So here is the result of your inspiration and a few nights of work :) Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!
- brudgers 10y agoCurious about the technology stack since it seems suggestive of Whisper.
- RepressedEmu 10y agoWell I think Whisper is more of a social sharing site while this tool is about sending anonymous messages to a specific target number. As for the stack it is Rails(which was probably overkill but I have yet to do much with Sinatra), Twilio, with Stripe integration. I send the messages via Twilio and then use their API to redact the logs so I can't see what people are messaging using the service.
- brudgers 10y agoBased on the anonymity aspect, I was thinking of Whisper Systems: https://whispersystems.org/ https://whispersystems.org/ Hence my curiosity about the stack.
- nicholas73 10y agoGreat example of an ideal passive income project - low upfront costs, little maintenance worry, and easily marketable. I hope you circle back later to talk about your marketing and revenue figures.
- RepressedEmu 10y agoThanks! The hardest part right now is finding the right audience to put it in front of. I definitely will! Another benefit of actually finishing a project is being able to share with others the challenges/successes/unexpected that happen during.
- sayurichick 10y agoplease enable bitcoin support on stripe. Was about to test your service.
- RepressedEmu 10y agoThere should be a bitcoin tab on the stripe payment form. Is it not there?
- andirk 10y agoWhat about Square? I'd love to see BTC integration there.
- RepressedEmu 10y agoThere is already bitcoin integration. Click on the blue "Send Message" and click on the bitcoin tab.
- shinri 10y agoThat's interesting, I created a similar service but targeted at the Dota 2 scene. https://chattywizard.com https://chattywizard.com Did you by chance look at spoiled.io before you created your service? That's the service that inspired me :) edit: if you sign up you get a free message!
- RepressedEmu 10y agoHaha I actually stole the idea from dollarfuckyou.com but have yet to reach his level of success. I hadn't heard of spoiled.io but from their FAQ I can tell we have the same sense of humor. I'm actually planning to rebuild the site with dropdown options rather than "send anything" since I think its too much work for most people.
- theoldkanye 10y agoHow are you using Stripe without an SSL certificate on your website? I just looked at the Stripe documentation, and it says you need to have an SSL certificate on your site in order to use Stripe. Is that more of just a suggestion than a requirement?
- RepressedEmu 10y agoI'm using Stripe.js for the actual payment which uses SSL and sends the payment info directly to Stripe without ever touching my servers.
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