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Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by williamdclt »

the_duke wrote: post #46
alexgmcm wrote: post #21

It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.

Not just to save space. Typing with T9 was much more time-consuming that our autocomplete touch keyboards.

I really don't think so, or at least not when you're a "power user". I used T9 when I was a teenager glued to his phone, and was definitely way faster to type than I am now with a touchscreen and autocompletion.

I was also faster than my friends that did not use T9 but wrote in "txt spk"

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by Moter8 »

iagooar wrote: post #89
smt88 wrote: post #69

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This would result in incessant phone calls. That's purely hypothetical, of course, because no one would take a job at that company.

> This would result in incessant phone calls. Make those expensive, too. Or accept people making more phone calls, which is perfectly fine, because you can only call one person at a time. > no one would take a job at that company Not if you are already working there, and not if the company sells it as a huge improvement to work productivity and fewer distractions.

> you can only call one person at a time.

what? In the times where 15 people have phone dailies/dailys?

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by LeonM »

test1235 wrote: post #63
lathiat wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The page is still up :-) http://www.milliondollarhomepage.com/ History: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Million_Dollar_Homepage

wow ... I just spotted ling's cars! Besides 'The Times', I've not spotted anything which I recognise on there. And I'm kinda surprised there aren't more porn adverts, to be honest.

Thanks to your comment, I discovered Ling's website, it is a work of art! I love it!

[0]https://www.lingscars.com/ [1]https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/li...

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#104

Post by NullPrefix »

pbhjpbhj wrote: post #92

Hmm, don't think I'm giving a random site (that breaches EU online business laws: must have an irl address for service) my CC info. If you spend 1¢ on posting ":smiley:" every day, won't that cost him about 20¢ transaction costs? Eventual DoS by CC transaction costs?? Love the spirit of it on an intellectual level though.

>EU online business laws: must have an irl address for service

I think that's only in the German speaking part, not the whole EU.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#105

Post by fredley »

carlmr wrote: post #73
thenanyu wrote: post #70

Interesting language effects at play. There’s a message in there: “你好吗?” Which is priced at 4c The equivalent message in English “how are you?” Is 10c

We can make it more fair by pricing UTF-8 bytes. 你好吗 = 9 bytes how are you = 11 bytes

per-byte pricing opens the pathway to posting images too!

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

#106

Post by nijynot »

iamasuperuser wrote: post #30

This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.

It exists, it's called https://earn.com/. You pay in cryptocurrency, but it works.

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by ksahin »

smt88 wrote: post #75
iamasuperuser wrote: post #30

This could make for an interesting idea for 'Quora for mentors', whereby someone pays money (maybe more than 1c) to ask a specific question to a 'business leader'.

Various companies have been doing this for a while (and it's a business model that existed long before the internet). This is the one I know best and have used: https://clarity.fm/ It was great a few years ago for validation for a B2B product we wanted to sell and needed unbiased feedback on.

"It was great a few years ago for validation..." It isn't good anymore?

Re: Show HN: Expensive Chat – Pay one cent per letter

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Post by porsager »

the_duke wrote: post #46
alexgmcm wrote: post #21

It reminds me of writing SMS messages - using all the awful txt spk to use as few characters as possible and save money.

Not just to save space. Typing with T9 was much more time-consuming that our autocomplete touch keyboards.

Are you sure you're not thinking of multi-tap on a keypad and not T9?

Once you've learned T9 (the one where you tap a key a single time for each letter in the word and a lookup is made based on the combination). You can surely be faster than Qwerty.

This was also the reason I developed https://typenineapp.com [1] for iPhone once they allowed custom keyboards.

I am on average 20wpm faster (50wpm for english, 60wpm for my native language danish) with Type Nine on my iPhone compared to the apple qwerty keyboard.

Even though you don't have the tactile feedback of the previous T9 phones on the iPhone I can type without looking just the same way as on a phone with a physical keyboard.

[1] More on my thoughts here - https://medium.com/porsager/a-better-iphone-typing-experienc...

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