hackerkira

There are plenty of social good forums, would this be unique because the audience is hackers who have the capacity to build solutions? What about having these funnel into hackathons?

We will make the first month free deal more obvious. I appreciate your feedback and honesty. Get in touch with us via email (on our site) and I'd love to chat more about your use cases.

We're working on some SMS best practices white-papers. Ultimately our customers are responsible for complying with rules and regulations. But, we advise them to provide an opt-out in the first message (text STOP at anytime).

I think you're absolutely right about the HN audience. In terms of your question, it would be ten texts, so we count texts bidirectionally.

Hopefully you're right about business owners. We anticipate that they'll see the value. Trext is designed to make SMS app creation accessible to non-programers.

That's a great idea. We're giving a first month free for the $60 plan but subsidizing it could get people hooked. Do you think we should offer a much larger plan (hypothetically would 100,000 texts for 4k/month be plausible?)

We allow users to design an interactive conversation with branching logic. Sendhub focuses more on marketing through unidirectional texting. We focus on use cases where bidirectional information exchange is valuable.

Thanks for the feedback. We strongly believe in the accessibility of SMS. We're actually working on the collapsing threads feature. We'll make the free trial more evident. Our initial customers haven't objected to our pricing, maybe we're getting lucky. Why should we revise it?

We've been getting mainly B to E interest and our major competitors in those markets have starting plans of $1000/month. But we're interested in feedback. How would you revise the pricing?

I never understood why "political correctness" has to be political. Almost all of the words that aren't PC, are must more entrenched in the social, societal sphere than in politics. If a politician says something non-PC, they get in much more trouble than a lay person. A person who is an expert at being PC...will probably succeed as a politician, tip-toeing strategic thinker...

I've always wondered which early scientist chose mice, maybe they were a cat lover. It's funny how some commonly studied species like mosquitos or zebra fish have logical reasons (reproduce quickly etc.) But some are completely arbitrary.

I'm using SAGE right now for calculus. The point is to have the computer do the tedious work. But until I learn python, I end up spending my time fidgeting around with the syntax instead of actually learning calculus. I'm all for programing integrated with academia...but we need better software (like Mathics!)

My best friend is an international student from China. His philosophy is he'll get rid of anything that he can't pack up in 1/2 an hour. I complain that his walls are bare, but he says the excitement and adventure is to be had outside of the room. It's incentive to get into those woods or onto that mountain.