wow, the amazon buy shortcut is scary - is there a confirmation?
Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
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Re: Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
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Have a look at http://jott.com/ for speech to text.
I have a feeling Google will be going down this route soon. Especially with their voice recognition being so robust and having so many profiles.....I bet Google will soon be dropping a bomb.
1-800-goog-411 (http://www.google.com/goog411/)
Basically a 411 service with automatic speech recognition. Not necessarily a web search, but they are far along this track.
Re: Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
#63wow, the amazon buy shortcut is scary - is there a confirmation?
there should be a confirmation msg with the order id. you should also get an email from amazon.
run detail first, so you know what you are buying ;)
Re: Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
#64Looks very interesting. I noticed that there are shortcuts for Paypal, but I don't see any copy about how secure those transactions are. I'd suggest adding at least some information on the matter, as some people tend to get paranoid about money transactions over wireless.
i know. the transactions are executed on our servers and it's the same as the user would be running them from their browser. I agree, we have to be a little more explicit about certain things. We have a very long list of features and improvements.
Re: Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
#65Re: Ask HN: Review my startup txtful - get stuff done on the web by sending a text
#66I have an iPhone so doing some of these things isn't has hard as it might be on a regular phone, but i've always loved intelligent services like this that let you take a simple thing like text messaging and turn it into a very powerful tool. Even with my iPhone, text messaging is a real fast way to send data. I'll be playing around with it :)
Fast once you get the damn app to load :P