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We'll have to work on the front page copy. Do her students never reply to the text messages she sends out? That's the core of the value-add -- whether inside or…",{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},"3222027","Yes, there are many different angles. To be clear, the technique of messaging in a special code to a number to \"subscribe\" to a service has been around for many, many years…",{"value":58,"source":49,"evidence":59},"Teachers, including high school and college professors",[60,63],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"3223268","Thanks! Yes, I've been talking with some college professors, and it looks like the software would work well there too. There may need to be some customization of the analytics to…",{"id":64,"by":11,"text":65},"3222369","We've been piloting with teachers, so we're starting by marketing to teachers directly. The goal is to have a product that's both useful at the free level and affordable at the…",{"value":67,"source":68,"evidence":69},"Free tier plus paid classes at $9.99\u002Fmonth","commenter",[70,74],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},"3225052","ednc","Nice Concept. We're just starting the school process (4yr old), and I'm amazed to see all the use of tech in schools these days. When I was in school, we were lucky to have an…",{"id":75,"by":76,"text":77},"3232928","mattcrest","Sounds good. She sent a beta inquiry about getting her school on board with it. I think the school\u002Fdistrict-wide system is going to be your best bet. As I'm sure you're aware,…",{"value":79,"source":49,"evidence":80},"Open up communication between teachers and students",[81],{"id":55,"by":11,"text":56},[83],{"value":84,"source":68,"evidence":85},"Twilio for SMS",[86,87],{"id":71,"by":72,"text":73},{"id":88,"by":89,"text":90},"3222578","sumukh1","Teachers are looking for stuff like this so the key to success is spreading the word. There certainly are competitors in your space (ClassParrot etc) Just curious. Why did you…","unknown","launched",{"praise":94,"objections":125,"requests":154,"questions":177,"alternatives":192},[95,110,117],{"value":96,"source":68,"evidence":97},"Clean, simple site and UI",[98,102,106],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"3221764","biggitybones","First - the site: I love the simplicity. The concept is clear immediately. Second - the service itself: it's a great angle. Kids love SMS messages and this embraces the use of…",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"3221819","ThomPete","This is exactly how you sell this kind of services. No fancy web design, no over complex messagin, no geek speak. Just straight to the point communication. (I say this as a…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"3222007","2arrs2ells","Great UI, and I love the signup interface. Just emailed it out to a bunch of my teacher friends.",{"value":111,"source":68,"evidence":112},"Good name and clear concept",[113],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"3221714","reason","This is really neat. A few of my relatives are high school teachers that I'm sure will love this. I'll forward it to tem. Also, great name. I've seen others in this space with…",{"value":118,"source":68,"evidence":119},"Useful for engaging students via SMS",[120,121],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"3222615","ccorcoran","Really awesome application! I passed it along to a couple of my teacher\u002Fprofessor friends. Hopefully this can replace a lot of those awful RF-based polling systems that come…",[126,137,144],{"value":127,"source":68,"evidence":128},"Remind101 already offers similar free broadcasting",[129,133],{"id":130,"by":131,"text":132},"3222010","__float","That service seems to compete more with http:\u002F\u002Fpolleverywhere.com than this. I see a definite familiarity with http:\u002F\u002Fremind101.com\u002F though, with which I have some moderate…",{"id":134,"by":135,"text":136},"3222895","vyrotek","For what it's worth... I sent your site to my sister who teaches highschool biology and she replied: I've been using remind101.com. Looks like the same thing except with mine I…",{"value":138,"source":68,"evidence":139},"Schools restrict phone use and teacher-student contact",[140],{"id":141,"by":142,"text":143},"3222046","joshmlewis","I think this is really awesome and definitely headed in the right direction as far as getting teachers more involved with technology, however from my experience in several…",{"value":145,"source":68,"evidence":146},"Home page lacks examples and has too much white space",[147,151],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"3222888","dylangs1030","Here's what I think: 1. Great idea, especially considering the attention span of a student can be somewhat diluted with so much modern technology - incorporating that same…",{"id":152,"by":149,"text":153},"3223185","Actually, you could solve #2 and #3 very easily by moving some of that material onto the homepage. Personally, I'd go with a simple, clean cut demo video. \"Meet Martha...Martha…",[155,159,169],{"value":156,"source":68,"evidence":157},"Move use cases or a demo video onto the home page",[158],{"id":152,"by":149,"text":153},{"value":160,"source":68,"evidence":161},"Release an API or LMS integration",[162,165],{"id":163,"by":11,"text":164},"3222021","Thanks! And I love that line about the \"personal connection\" without breaching privacy -- I'll have to use that. One of the things we've been exploring is ways to integrate over…",{"id":166,"by":167,"text":168},"3222862","briandear","This would be a great feature to integrate with ClassCloud, which is a cloud based classroom management system. I hope the class pager guys release an API! 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