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thomatas

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About thomatas

Co-Founder of txtful. A platform for developers to enable mobile access to important features of websites from messaging applications like email, IM, etc.

http://txtful.com/

Recent public activity

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    Comment #446663

    I don't think I'm the target audience, but it looks nice and clean to me. Lots of big pictures all on one page is good for browsing quickly. Maybe give me an option of how many ite…

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    Comment #446655

    Maybe you could use diamonds instead of stars since the audience is obviously women ;-)

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    Comment #433046

    Will do. Sorry about that.

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    Comment #433020

    http://www.instantrimshot.com/

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    Comment #432970

    Your commission check is in the mail :D

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    Comment #432969

    You should have gotten a notification either way. Drop us an email at help@txtful.com if you don't get it soon.

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    Comment #432948

    Thanks for giving us a head's up about the FAQ. I've fixed it, so we don't confuse anyone else. You've done a good deed! Let us know if you find anything else.

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    Comment #432916

    Hey Jasber, we do have SMS support and Email, IM, etc. Just go to your account page and add a Mobile Phone identity.

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    Comment #432871

    Absolutely. We're always going to start-up and tech events around the city. I'll be at http://likemind.us/ on Friday.

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    Comment #432655

    I like the way you think! Email becomes another way to use your shortcuts though in this case. And we need a way to communicate service or account issues that aren't a priority per…

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    Comment #432578

    Definitely would love to implement searching for shortcuts from messages. It's a great idea, we'll put it in the queue. Thanks a lot. P.S. Yup, we're encrypted.

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    Comment #432561

    Good idea. We like text a lot because it is so unobtrusive it can be used in a lot more places than voice. But obviously the way we've structured it, it's not that difficult to int…

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    Comment #432507

    We'll beef it up!

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    Comment #432503

    Good suggestion, we were just trying to follow others suggestions of making the sign-up form as short as possible.

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    Comment #432487

    Great point. If you send a message with just the letter h you get a list of your shortcuts. If you send h "shortcut name" you get detailed help.

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    Comment #432475

    In terms of text messaging it's US only (right now), but if you're willing to use it from IM, email, or the mobile web site then you could definitely create shortcuts for sites any…

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    Comment #432459

    That's true Wesley, but not all shortcuts require personal info. And I want you to know that we encrypt all the info you give us with AES-128, and you're free to use whichever shor…

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    Comment #432447

    Sorry this is just the excited wife of one of the founders. We're looking for real feedback and criticism here. Please feel free to rip it up.

  20. story
    Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text

    http://www.txtful.com/ We're a small bootstrapped team based in Chicago who've built a platform that anyone can easily use to take a bit of functionality on the web and make it acc…

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    Comment #430071

    You could setup a project on Amazon Mechanical Turk or use some service that offers a management layer on top of it like UserTesting.com.

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    Comment #428301

    Javascript. It gives him a chance to create GUIs pretty quickly by saving any page he sees on the internet and tweaking it. And he can create things that are useful to him pretty q…

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    Comment #259796

    If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem.

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    Comment #256993

    And being dependent on one thing just generally isn't a good idea. Also there is a huge number of users out there who don't want or need flashy apps. They just want to quickly get …

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    Comment #256870

    Great example of taking advantage of the commoditization of technology. I once worked at a start-up that spent tens of thousands of dollars building a lab to do this. Being creativ…