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The simplicity of texting a photo is what I’m going for.",{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},"36393174","Simplicity. People text photos to each other all the time, but don’t always use web apps or mobile apps. Text messages are baked into everyone’s phones already. No apps to…",{"value":64,"source":65,"evidence":66},"People who want to send photo postcards by text message","inferred",[67,68],{"id":61,"by":11,"text":62},{"id":69,"by":11,"text":70},"36393141","Fair point. My current target market is people able to send via a text message. This actually used to have a Messenger app, but the maintenance to spam ratio was too much for…",{"value":72,"source":73,"evidence":74},"$2.99 per postcard","commenter",[75,79],{"id":76,"by":77,"text":78},"36373020","berbec","yes, at $2.99 a postcard.",{"id":80,"by":11,"text":81},"36393196","Haha yep. These bad actors exist everywhere though. 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