thomatas

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by thomatas 18y ago
I don't think I'm the target audience, but it looks nice and clean to me. Lots of big pictures all on one page is good for browsing quickly. Maybe give me an option of how many items to display on a page?
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by thomatas 18y ago
Maybe you could use diamonds instead of stars since the audience is obviously women ;-)
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by thomatas 18y ago
Will do. Sorry about that.
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by thomatas 18y ago
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
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by thomatas 18y ago
Your commission check is in the mail :D
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by thomatas 18y ago
You should have gotten a notification either way. Drop us an email at help@txtful.com if you don't get it soon.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Thanks for giving us a head's up about the FAQ. I've fixed it, so we don't confuse anyone else. You've done a good deed! Let us know if you find anything else.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Hey Jasber, we do have SMS support and Email, IM, etc. Just go to your account page and add a Mobile Phone identity.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Absolutely. We're always going to start-up and tech events around the city. I'll be at http://likemind.us/ on Friday.
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by thomatas 18y ago
I like the way you think! Email becomes another way to use your shortcuts though in this case. And we need a way to communicate service or account issues that aren't a priority per se without bugging you on your phone.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Thanks
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by thomatas 18y ago
Definitely would love to implement searching for shortcuts from messages. It's a great idea, we'll put it in the queue. Thanks a lot. P.S. Yup, we're encrypted.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Good idea. We like text a lot because it is so unobtrusive it can be used in a lot more places than voice. But obviously the way we've structured it, it's not that difficult to integrate and is definitely on the roadmap.
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by thomatas 18y ago
We'll beef it up!
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by thomatas 18y ago
Good suggestion, we were just trying to follow others suggestions of making the sign-up form as short as possible.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Great point. If you send a message with just the letter h you get a list of your shortcuts. If you send h "shortcut name" you get detailed help.
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by thomatas 18y ago
In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites anywhere in the world.
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by thomatas 18y ago
That's true Wesley, but not all shortcuts require personal info. And I want you to know that we encrypt all the info you give us with AES-128, and you're free to use whichever shortcuts you're comfortable with. It's not all or nothing.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Sorry this is just the excited wife of one of the founders. We're looking for real feedback and criticism here. Please feel free to rip it up.
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Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
43 points by thomatas 18y ago|60 comments
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by thomatas 18y ago
You could setup a project on Amazon Mechanical Turk or use some service that offers a management layer on top of it like UserTesting.com.
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by thomatas 18y ago
Javascript. It gives him a chance to create GUIs pretty quickly by saving any page he sees on the internet and tweaking it. And he can create things that are useful to him pretty quickly if you show him Greasemonkey.
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by thomatas 18y ago
If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.
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by thomatas 18y ago
And being dependent on one thing just generally isn't a good idea. Also there is a huge number of users out there who don't want or need flashy apps. They just want to quickly get stuff done from their phones, and would be just fine with s
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by thomatas 18y ago
Great example of taking advantage of the commoditization of technology. I once worked at a start-up that spent tens of thousands of dollars building a lab to do this. Being creative with what has become standard tech to create a solution
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by thomatas 18y ago
Or more generically "beyond polling." Polling is a great and simple solution for a range of problems (and why it's often one of the first tools programmers reach for), but as they point out PubSub often scales much better.