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I have so may half-finished apps & sites, that I really needed to break the seal, and ship something. This was the simplest thing I could…",{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"4490217","Thanks! There were other ways of achieving this, but I went for a solution that didn't require installing apps, learning APIs, creating accounts, etc.",{"value":59,"source":50,"evidence":60},"Free to use; about 4 cents per use paid by maker via Twilio",[61],{"id":62,"by":11,"text":63},"4490528","It 'only' costs four cents per use, thanks to Twilio. (1c per inbound\u002Foutbound text message and 2c for the call.) 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Very clean looking and I'm sure it will prove useful, even though there are other methods of doing this. I love that you let us text just \"1h20m\" and the like. I…",{"value":103,"source":92,"evidence":104},"Easy to use; texting '1h20m' is handy",[105],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},{"value":107,"source":92,"evidence":108},"Good execution",[109],{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"4490145","trusko","Good execution, I like it.",[114,121],{"value":115,"source":92,"evidence":116},"People should not use it to deceive coworkers",[117],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"4490873","dsrguru","I love the idea in concept, but I hope people wouldn't actually use it. I'm not sure which I find worse: not being honest with your coworkers or having them judge you for not…",{"value":122,"source":92,"evidence":123},"Call ends abruptly; should run a few seconds longer for realism",[124],{"id":125,"by":126,"text":127},"4494897","notyourwork","Ok - Awesome idea and project. 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