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Re:Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard A... by lucb1e on Monday September 05, 2016 @07:48AM (#12429617)
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.

Re:Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard A... by Turing_Machine on Monday September 05, 2016 @12:07PM (#12430974)
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.
Re:Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard A... by lucb1e on Monday September 05, 2016 @01:33PM (#12431371)
Gyros we get in greek restaurants; döner is usually sold in the same place as shawarma. Then you do have similar places, okay!
Re:Show HN: Postacard – Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard A... by tehwhynot on Monday September 05, 2016 @10:17AM (#12430436)
Well... That's what they're called in Texas!

But yeah SMS services are more rare than they should be.