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The Grid

Posted by stirman on Thursday February 23, 2017 @04:00PM
from the self-post dept.

Side project to learn React Native turned into a whole thing! React Native + MS Codepush is pretty magical. Happy to answer any questions about releasing a RN app.The Grid is a modular iPad dashboard for families. Restore harmony in your house!http://grid.stirman.net

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Re:Why Taking Random Meetings Matters So Much on Thursday May 23, 2013 @04:36PM (#5759375)
Should you take random meetings? Gary V. says yes, @ev says no: https://medium.com/on-startups/ea0b02c504cd
Re:Penny SMS on Friday April 24, 2009 @08:39AM (#577386)
All valid concerns, and I'll tell you that we take reliability very seriously. We have been in business, as ohdontforget.com, for over 4 years, and have learned a lot in that time.

We are not abusing e-mail or web interfaces. We spent months getting contracts set up so we could access the same data that major cell carriers use to route their text messages.

For one cent a message, give it a try, I think your concerns will be remedied :)

Re:Penny SMS on Thursday April 23, 2009 @05:41PM (#576533)
North America for now, working on expanding asap.
Re:Penny SMS on Thursday April 23, 2009 @01:12PM (#576036)
SSL enabled for web front end and the api.
Re:Penny SMS on Thursday April 23, 2009 @01:10PM (#576030)
SSL enabled now.
Re:Penny SMS on Thursday April 23, 2009 @12:33PM (#575963)
No, we went down the GSM modem path a while back with ohdontforget.com. Not scalable, affordable, or customizable :)
Re:Penny SMS on Thursday April 23, 2009 @08:34AM (#575443)
Not yet, but I am working on it!
Re:Penny SMS on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @09:40PM (#574920)
The problem Penny SMS solves is, without knowing the carrier, it is very hard to figure out where to route the messages to, since someone may have switched cell carriers, even multiple times, but retained the same cell number.
Re:Penny SMS on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @09:11PM (#574891)
That's the plan :)
Re:Penny SMS on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @07:22PM (#574762)
You can view replies to the outgoing messages, see the 'from' field description here: http://www.pennysms.com/docs

As for routing them back through SMS, we could do that, but thought being able to field replies via email would be more convenient.

Re:Penny SMS on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @07:21PM (#574759)
Penny SMS is the API from a site I built a few years ago, www.ohdontforget.com.

TC mentioned it here: http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/27/mobaganda-a-dead-simple...

CrunchBase Profile for ODF: http://www.crunchbase.com/company/ohdontforget

My CrunchBase Profile: http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jason-stirman

I wanted to use the press mentions for ODF, since it's the exact same technology, which is why I mentioned "The PENNY SMS technology has been featured on"

Does it come off as bad form?

Re:Penny SMS on Wednesday April 22, 2009 @06:13PM (#574661)
My new little project aimed at taking the complication and expense out of programatically sending SMS messages.
Re:3mindme - Dead Simple Reminders on Thursday April 16, 2009 @09:41AM (#565115)
http://www.ohdontforget.com/

Same concept, but for SMS.

Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends on Friday June 06, 2008 @09:43AM (#210818)
Mobaganda is, by design, like an anti-purpletrail :) For those that don't need or want the complexity and extra features.
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends on Friday June 06, 2008 @09:41AM (#210817)
I realize this as a potential problem.. but then again, who would look for random events and rsvp to them... besides the slew of Techcrunch commenters that spammed the event mentioned in the TC article with javascript hacks :) (which are now being detected and disabled)

Bot spam is a different creature, and I have some measures to prevent against it, with more coming soon.

I wonder if there's a way to not let Google index it? Something about the robots file maybe?

Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends on Thursday June 05, 2008 @09:12PM (#210526)
Thanks evdawg, no need to take it back... I bet many people shared your initial impression. Criticism help me grow these things :)
Re:Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends on Thursday June 05, 2008 @08:05PM (#210483)
Oops, should have left the url out of the submission, meant for discussion... my apologies.

Mobaganda - Propaganda For Your Friends

Posted by stirman on Thursday June 05, 2008 @08:03PM
from the mobaganda.com dept.

http://www.mobaganda.com

Recently launched Mobaganda, and have been featured on TechCrunch, Lifehacker, etc... Just found out it will be included in TIME's 50 best sites of 2008.Have the opportunity to take on some VC money to build it out a bit, a few hundred thousand, but am not sure if I should or not.Thoughts? How would you monetize assuming great traction and viral growth?-Stirman www.stirman.net

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