Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

Re:Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers... by ungzd on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @09:45AM (#13229463)

What percent of users will even open link from SMS and futhermore provide their physical address in web form? It looks exactly like most phishing schemes.

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Re:Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers... by kirillch on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:45AM (#13229942)

Hey! CEO of SwiftGift here.

Actually our acceptance rate numbers are well over 85%!

Reasons for such high success: 1. Sender can customise the notification message to their Recipient (calling them by a pet name or naming their anniversary etc). 2. Notification arrives directly from the Sender. Not from centralised number. Even if the Recipient does fear a phishing scheme (indeed this does happen) they will typically ask the sender what's up with their phone sending random messages. At this point the Sender explains... :)

The reputation is basically crowdsourced - the Sender explains everything to their Recipient :)

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Re:Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers... by codazoda on Wednesday December 21, 2016 @10:24AM (#13229775)

I thought the same thing but on the flip side I love the idea of this simple solution. Maybe they have a creative solution to it looking like a scam?

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