Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on Earth for $3

Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by sixhobbits on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:00PM (#36372660)

I would love an email bot. I sent a message to the number from a prepaid EU sim, it told me to send an image, I sent an image, I got a "mms not supported" error. I remember mms from around 10 years ago, not sure if they are still standard in US?

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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by berbec on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:33PM (#36373041)

I just sent a photo from a US sim, using MMS, and it accepted the photo.

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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by unixhero on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:03PM (#36372706)

Probably some imessage only business. Typical if US entrepreneurs, US only and only iphone.

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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by mahathu on Saturday June 17, 2023 @02:15PM (#36372826)

They should call it iMessage then and not SMS/texting.

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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by morpheuskafka on Saturday June 17, 2023 @03:33PM (#36373739)

You can't receive iMessages via an API, except for "iMessage Business Chat" which can't be started by inputting a phone number and isn't all that widely used.

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Re:Show HN: Text a Photo to Send as a Postcard Anywhere on E... by mwlp on Saturday June 17, 2023 @05:06PM (#36374602)

Not an API, but still doable to a certain scale. I've gotten image input to work with my bot. Apple once temporarily banned me for suspicious activity but after a quick call to support they lifted it. If I got more traffic maybe they'd ban it again, I'm not sure.

You can text !help to sue [at] robertism.com to demo if you're interested.

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