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Re:Ask HN: Would my idea be worth developing? by akg_67 on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @03:02AM (#7596478)
that would take a message from a source and redistribute it to any number of other messagig systems (SMS, twitter, etc.)

This part of your idea is great. But I think by thinking of it as a distribution method for offers/discount/publicity is just meh...

Think of application of this idea in areas such as pinging someone on different channels or someone getting a choice of what media they want to receive alert on about something important (not just another crappy promotional offer).

If you are a system administrator, you most probably know there are much more important alerts/messages people willing to send/receive than a 10% discount coupon or PR shrill.

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Re:Ask HN: Would my idea be worth developing? by JohnQUnknown on Wednesday April 16, 2014 @03:45PM (#7600087)
You're right. I thought of PR stuff primarily because that's the need that I have to cover for the project I am working on, but the idea can be implemented in any number of aplications, not just promotional stuff...
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