Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day • Hacker News Board

Hmm.. I would not find this useful. To me, the best part is the surprise felt when you receive a gift by mail, and didn't expect it. Instead of using this app, why not just ask for their address instead, and give them anything you can choose?

Re: Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

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Post by seashuttle » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 2:39 PM UTC

As a fully certified member of the lazy club™ this looks great. Really nice interaction with how it lets the person receiving the present know they've got a gift, and prompts them to fill out the address themselves.

Re: Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

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Post by seashuttle » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 2:42 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #5

Hmm.. I would not find this useful. To me, the best part is the surprise felt when you receive a gift by mail, and didn't expect it. Instead of using this app, why not just ask for their address instead, and give them anything you can choose?

Because it takes more time...

Re: Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

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Post by ungzd » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 2:45 PM UTC

What percent of users will even open link from SMS and futhermore provide their physical address in web form? It looks exactly like most phishing schemes.

Re: Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

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Post by kriptonic » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 2:58 PM UTC

seashuttle wrote: post #6

As a fully certified member of the lazy club™ this looks great. Really nice interaction with how it lets the person receiving the present know they've got a gift, and prompts them to fill out the address themselves.

Who's not in the lazy club nowadays?

Re: Show HN: SwiftGift – Send physical gifts to phone numbers on Christmas Day

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Post by kriptonic » Wed, Dec 21, 2016, 3:05 PM UTC

AznHisoka wrote: post #5

Hmm.. I would not find this useful. To me, the best part is the surprise felt when you receive a gift by mail, and didn't expect it. Instead of using this app, why not just ask for their address instead, and give them anything you can choose?

I bet the additional friction of asking for an address means most people don't bother doing anything.

Look at how many people nowadays just send a Facebook Happy Birthday message instead of a real card. In fact, I bet there is even an autoresponder in IFTTT to help send auto birthday messages.

Who know's what is real nowadays.

If it only takes 4 clicks to send a real gift to thank someone (or wish them a Happy Christmas), then this little app might be easy enough to help more of us connect with our virtual friends