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Chatroulette for text messages
- shazow 16y agoVery cool application of Twilio! I'd feel more comfortable trying it if my SMSs weren't publicly displayed. Although I did just upgrade my SMS plan to 1,000... Hmm.
- orenmazor 16y agoI built this a few months ago on twilio as well, and spent a massive amount of time trying to dispel the "chatroulette for ____" angle :) my initial testers all got nailed with $30+ cell phone bill increases because Twilio only has american numbers. and canadians can't text american numbers for free anymore. if anybody wants the code, it's built in django and I own www.texted.in with it (currently down since djangy is going away)
- ithayer 16y agowould be cool if it supported mms.
- eoghan 16y agoThis road can lead only to an increase in the presence of penises in MMS messages.
- jrockway 16y agoMaybe if enough 8-year-old kids get these messages, the carriers will finally do something about TXT spam.
- maxstoller 16y agoTrue, but Twilio doesn't support MMS yet.
- corin_ 16y agoMessage received from 479-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:26:23 GMT+0000 (UTC) I'm from England! Reply received from 626-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:29:32 GMT+0000 (UTC) I am fasting, but it's not going very well. If only Twilio would support international messaging by default so I could have got that reply, and had a message to reply to.
- tedsbardella 16y agoIt seems to me like the responses are not in order - you probably got a response to someone asking about an Orthodox Christian fast that is going on now.
- oniTony 16y agoYup, just like chatroulette Message received from 858-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 21:59:46 GMT+0000 (UTC) What nonsense do you speak of? The humanity! Reply received from 724-XXX-XXXX at Sun Apr 10 2011 22:28:29 GMT+0000 (UTC) 8========================D
- duck 16y agoAm I the only one that would be a little worried about posting anything on here knowing that the X's could be removed at any point and thus the next (person|boss|gf|friend) to search my cell number would get to see my 'witty' response?
- MikeW 16y agoLissn.com reminds me of a far more polished "chatroulette for text" except I was able to talk to a lady in Japan for half an hour about the recent tragedy on Lissn, and I didn't have to disclose my cellphone number to anybody or get billed for using the service.
- baberuth 16y agoLissn is blowing up with HN users right now. Its quite nice. Sort of like 2-3 person IRC chat rooms. Not sure what the real value is, but its fun for the moment.
- citricsquid 16y agoI'm really enjoying this, it's an excellent idea. I think with tweaks and expansions it could be great.
- Sniffnoy 16y agoThere's also Omegle.
- lissn 16y agoThanks for the post! Our goal is to create the best conversation platform for having good conversations, so if you had (or lissned to) a good conversation, we have done our job. :) I've talked with people from Egypt during their protests, Libya during their conflicts and Japan after their quake. It's been a sporadic, fun initial community (currently the site is taken over by people from Taiwan). We're releasing a new feature each week based off user feedback. It's been interesting, as our plan has changed by the week. Started with an MVP, listened to the customer & building out. Hope to see you guys around lissn :)
- frankdenbow 16y agoi believe there was textslide that did something similar. Will try it out!
- mhunter 16y agoyou would be correct. textslide is still alive and well: http://textslide.com http://textslide.com http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/textslide/ http://mashable.com/2010/10/26/textslide/
- blantonl 16y agoI never, ever participated in Chartoulette, but for some odd reason I immediately tested this out. And, I have to admit - it's a winner. It's like the Cracker Jacks of text messaging. Every text is a winner...
- blantonl 16y agocellphone providers all over the world are now scrambling to make absolutely, unequivocally sure that this goes viral.
- jrockway 16y agoAnd as a result, it's virtually guaranteed to die out within about three hours of this happening. (Has any big company ever succeeded in making something "go viral"? All I can think of is that "I'm on a horse" series of ads on YouTube. Ironically, I can't remember what they were selling. Old Spice?)
- cubicle67 16y agopretty sure the one I saw had Grover on a horse [Edit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zkd5dJIVjgM ]
- suyash 16y agovery cool product, although I wonder opening up publicly for free, how much bill will twillio charge you?
- hugh3 16y agoOh hooray, now I can pay ten cents a pop for what I used to hate getting for free!
- kgermino 16y agoWait, who do you have that it's only ten cents?
- montibbalt 16y agoGet a Google Voice number and it's free ;)
- cubicle67 16y agoI pay about $40/month for my phone plan, and get about 1300+ texts included, of which I use about a dozen
- ipince 16y agoI think many people are confused and don't quite understand which message they should be replying to.. perhaps it'd be better to have 2 numbers? One for starting an exchange and one for completing them..