stirman

Should you take random meetings? Gary V. says yes, @ev says no: https://medium.com/on-startups/ea0b02c504cd

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 :)

North America for now, working on expanding asap.

SSL enabled for web front end and the api.

SSL enabled now.

No, we went down the GSM modem path a while back with ohdontforget.com. Not scalable, affordable, or customizable :)

Not yet, but I am working on it!

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.

That's the plan :)

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.

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?

My new little project aimed at taking the complication and expense out of programatically sending SMS messages.

http://www.ohdontforget.com/

Same concept, but for SMS.

Mobaganda is, by design, like an anti-purpletrail :) For those that don't need or want the complexity and extra features.

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?

Thanks evdawg, no need to take it back... I bet many people shared your initial impression. Criticism help me grow these things :)

Oops, should have left the url out of the submission, meant for discussion... my apologies.