I figured you'd notice that, been following your blog since i saw you started, figured you'd be happy to see a text altering you that it was submitted. :) Carry on, you're doing awesome.
Painting is called Reply of the Zaporozhian Cossacks to Sultan Mehmed IV of the Ottoman Empire, by the way [0]...
Original reply was:
Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil's brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked ass? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou son of a bitch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother. )))
This is a really cool concept - all the social monitoring tools I've seen focus on social networks (fb, twitter, that sort of stuff), which is great for some companies with an existing fanbase - not so much for startups.
Just wanted to say that this is a terrific project (and experiment). Inspirational for those of us who need a kick in the ass to shut up and get to work on that MVP. Maybe the next product is a $10k bootstrap challenge everyone can take? :)
Enough people have asked about it that I'll add it asap -- I only check my email about once a day so it didn't even occur to me as a relevant use case!
If you reply to the text message, it will cancel all alerts going to that number.
So if you are signed up to get alerts on 3 domains and only want to cancel one, you'll have to send one unsubscribe (which will cancel all 3) and then re-add the ones you still want to be active.
Not ideal in that edge case, I know, but I wanted to make sure unsubscribing was easy in case someone got cheeky and starting signing other people up.
I checked it out. If you input is not good (for example, I entered letters in the phone number field), it breaks the app and exposes the entire Django stacktrace since it seems ilke DEBUG is set to True. I guess this is a small side project of course but thought to point it out.
Right you are. Glad I had the thing hooked up to notify me about this potential trainwreck! Big thanks for the heads up.
It's fixed & off debug mode now. It will fail silently, which still isn't exactly ideal, but at least it doesn't reveal its innards any more. Thanks again.
It's just twilio for texts plus django and a cronjob. Text messages are the use case I wanted most for myself, so I just did that first. I'll add email/twitter/etc if the simple version gets a good enough response to warrant it
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Original reply was: Thou art a turkish imp, the damned devil's brother and friend, and a secretary to Lucifer himself. What the devil kind of knight art thou that cannot slay a hedgehog with your naked ass? The devil shits, and your army eats. Thou son of a bitch wilt not ever make subjects of Christian sons; we have no fear of your army, by land and by sea we will battle with thee, fuck thy mother. )))
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[+] [-] mikkel|13 years ago|reply
I've signed up :)
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edit: Well, let's say it saves me hour per day. Hours plural is probably stretching it
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[+] [-] robfitz|13 years ago|reply
So if you are signed up to get alerts on 3 domains and only want to cancel one, you'll have to send one unsubscribe (which will cancel all 3) and then re-add the ones you still want to be active.
Not ideal in that edge case, I know, but I wanted to make sure unsubscribing was easy in case someone got cheeky and starting signing other people up.
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[+] [-] Alan01252|13 years ago|reply
Great MVP by the way.
[+] [-] MiguelHudnandez|13 years ago|reply
I suppose we should all dream big, though...
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It's fixed & off debug mode now. It will fail silently, which still isn't exactly ideal, but at least it doesn't reveal its innards any more. Thanks again.
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[+] [-] sparknlaunch|13 years ago|reply
How does it work? What tool is being used to send the text message? And why text message over email or other online notification?
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