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Re:Show HN: Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day by gerry_shaw on Saturday October 15, 2016 @08:40PM (#12716283)
Well done. Great idea and execution!

Have you giving any thought of using a different platform? I like the idea of writing a chat bot myself that would work iOS built in Messages but I can't seem to think of a way around it short of using SMS and Twillo which would start to get expensive. Anybody have any suggestions?

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Re:Show HN: Jumper, a robot to help you exercise every day by aroc on Saturday October 15, 2016 @08:51PM (#12716314)
Thank you!! :D

I actually started out on SMS with Twilio! I switched to Facebook Messenger simply because it was starting to get expensive and I really started to miss the niceties of using a proper chat platform: thing like predictable message delivery, getting someone's first name without asking, and easy/free image embedding.

I'm going to try and do Google Hangouts and Slack next - unless someone has other good ideas for platforms to support?

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