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HaaS (Hugs as a Service)
- Spoygg 13y agoHehehe cheerful :D
- lcasela 13y agoThis is getting ridiculous
- sara_gozalo 13y agoLove it!!!!
- dspillett 13y agoTomorrow on HN: IaaS (Insults as a Service).
- BenNunney 13y agoI think you'll fine nowinsult.me redirects to nowcheerup.me ;-)
- TimFogarty 13y agoCheck out http://foaas.com/ http://foaas.com/
- dspillett 13y agoNow how did I forget about that one!
- cgtyoder 13y agoReally looking forward to SaaS 2.0 (Snark as a Service)
- 8ig8 13y agoReminds me of Awesomeness Reminders. I wonder how they (he's) doing? http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/ http://www.awesomenessreminders.com/
- seszett 13y agoIf you won't do anything with the telephone numbers you collect, you might want to mention it on your page. Otherwise, well no thanks for selling or using them later for something else without explicit consent. By the way, it seems you have an uncaught exception here when giving a number which isn't a cell phone: Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Services_Twilio_RestException' with message 'To number: +33123456789, is not a mobile number' in /home/nunney/cheerup/twilio/Services/Twilio.php:213 Stack trace: #0 /home/nunney/cheerup/twilio/Services/Twilio.php(185): Services_Twilio->_processResponse(Array) #1 /home/nunney/cheerup/twilio/Services/Twilio/ListResource.php(83): Services_Twilio->createData('/2010-04-01/Acc...', Array) #2 /home/nunney/cheerup/twilio/Services/Twilio/Rest/SmsMessages.php(17): Services_Twilio_ListResource->_create(Array) #3 /home/nunney/cheerup/index.php(91): Services_Twilio_Rest_SmsMessages->create('13039005542', '+33123456789', 'You rock. I mea...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/nunney/cheerup/twilio/Services/Twilio.php on line 213
- BenNunney 13y agoI've added in a footer comment re storing numbers - good call. Not storing numbers, mostly because I have morals. Cheers for pointing out the uncaught exception. You deserve a hug.
- uptown 13y agoLet me guess - raising funds at a 7 billion dollar valuation?
- nlintz 13y agoHow bout you fucking die as a service?
- Cederfjard 13y agoFound this upthread, perhaps it's more to your liking: http://foaas.com http://foaas.com See, it's quite useful: http://foaas.com/off/nlintz/Cederfjard http://foaas.com/off/nlintz/Cederfjard Please don't be so rude, it's uncalled for I think.
- BenNunney 13y agoNo time for death. Too busy smiling.
- Morgawr 13y agoYeah no sorry, I'm not going to post my (or a friend's) mobile phone number on the Internet, thanks. Why not use emails instead? Phone numbers on the net make me feel weird, I don't like it.
- rkangel 13y agoI'm aware I'm going to come off sounding like the grinch, or an old man moaning "In My Day...", but: Has it really got to the point where, if we want to cheer someone up, instead of sending them a cheering text ourselves, we outsource it to an online service?
- tixocloud 13y agoI think it's sad because sometimes all people need is a friend with some time to listen to them. Outsourcing doesn't give that sort of warmth and closeness. It just says "I'm too busy to cheer you up so I'll get someone else to do it". No offence but I feel the same way about gift cards - if you genuinely know the person and you care about the person, you would have some idea on what to get them. I feel like relationships can be more meaningful if we put more effort into it.
- BenNunney 13y agoOh, totally. Nothing can replace being truly there for someone, and I'd never try. All I wanted NowCheerUp.Me to do was make a few people smile. No friend worth their salt would outsource their compliment-giving but as a casual way of lighting up someone's face, this works!
- mhurron 13y agoI think you might be taking it too seriously.
- sp332 13y agoThis is more of a "long tail" of cheeriness :)
- neuromancer2600 13y agoI assume most people would first enter their own number to see what this really does. Then they enter all their friends' numbers. Another way to collect address books.
- BenNunney 13y agoDoesn't store data or keep numbers :-)
- kmfrk 13y agoSame can be said of many of the websites submitted to HN where people submit their e-mail. There used to be value in keeping your e-mail address to yourself, but it seems people just toss it at whomever willy-nilly these days.
- Ilmesnkie_Jones 13y agoOr people have more than one email and some of them are worth less to them than others.
- randallsquared 13y agoSpam control on email is nearly perfect, though. Spam control on my phone is much less so.
- tlarkworthy 13y agodoes it hug premium numbers?
- bjhoops1 13y agoHaas is also a popular variety of Avacado. #TheMoreYouKnow
- BenNunney 13y agoSince a lot of you are asking - this doesn't store numbers, collect data, or track anything other than hits via Google Analytics and API hits on Twilio. No marketing scam, no selling of address books - just a little hack to make people smile. I really, really really, really really really hate things that collect data and use it for marketing purposes or spam. I added a disclaimer to the bottom of the page (thanks @seszett for that idea) with words to that effect too.
- tech-no-logical 13y agoFrom twilio : > When you use our [...] services Twilio may collect from you the following personally identifiable information: [...] and phone number. [...] Twilio may keep a cached copy of the content you serve us as a part of your use of the service for an indeterminate amount of time although I believe your good intentions that doesn't imply I trust Twilio...
- joshmlewis 13y agoA lot of people don't realize the country code part and will start putting in the phone number (cough me), and then I get the error and go back but I have to retype the number. A little nitpicky maybe, but still a bit frustrating.
- gavinpc 13y agoI thought for sure this was a Haskell thing. Even Haskell developers need cheering up sometimes.