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Half the world still does not have 3g access through smartphones.",{"value":56,"source":48,"evidence":57},"People in developing countries or without 3G data access",[58,59],{"id":53,"by":11,"text":54},{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},"5732288","gdonelli","is this thought for developing countries?",null,{"value":65,"source":48,"evidence":66},"Give anyone access to any kind of general data via SMS",[67],{"id":68,"by":11,"text":69},"5732026","Using the DuckDuckGo api sounds really interesting because Google just shut off it's SMS service. Please send link when possible. Whit is meant for anyone to scale for access to…",[71],{"value":72,"source":48,"evidence":73},"Twilio (SMS)",[74],{"id":75,"by":11,"text":76},"5732093","Yep, we built whit at the techcrunch hackathon and twilio was a sponsor.","open_source","launched","unknown",{"praise":81,"objections":94,"requests":121,"questions":143,"alternatives":155},[82],{"value":83,"source":84,"evidence":85},"Useful concept for people without data plans","commenter",[86,90],{"id":87,"by":88,"text":89},"5732076","suyash","Very interesting, this can be great for people who don't have data plan but can still get useful information by sms. Where does it say it's by Intuit, I don't see Intuit…",{"id":91,"by":92,"text":93},"5733027","jckt","holy crap, I was writing a very similar app months ago, based on very similar premises, but I sorta gave up (actually got too busy as well, etc) once I read that actually the…",[95,110],{"value":96,"source":84,"evidence":97},"API keys were exposed in the repository and remain in git history",[98,102,106],{"id":99,"by":100,"text":101},"5732016","yefim323","Cool service. However, it's generally bad practice to reveal your API keys.",{"id":103,"by":104,"text":105},"5732089","pudquick","Careful. All you've done is revise it. I could post a link or two that easily reveals it in your git repository revision history (6sus.. and 794e..). Instead, I'll post this…",{"id":107,"by":108,"text":109},"5732529","bvdbijl","Please note that the keys will not be truly deleted, because they are still in the GIT history",{"value":111,"source":84,"evidence":112},"Service was down when tested",[113,117],{"id":114,"by":115,"text":116},"5733021","aaronsnoswell","Just tried to use your service from Australia and got no response :(",{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"5733843","xur17","Great work, it looks really neat! side note - I think your server's down, I'm not getting any response from it.",[122,129,136],{"value":123,"source":84,"evidence":124},"Support multiple queries in one SMS",[125],{"id":126,"by":127,"text":128},"5732123","mmahemoff","How about supporting multiple queries from a single SMS, given that most users are probably capped on number of outgoing messages, but not incoming.",{"value":130,"source":84,"evidence":131},"Add weather, product ratings, directions and local search",[132],{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"5732373","wicknicks","Very cool! You might also want to add weather, amazon\u002Fyelp ratings for products\u002Fplaces, directions from place a to b and location based search (coffee near staples center, la).…",{"value":137,"source":84,"evidence":138},"Add email access",[139],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"5731999","noahklein94","This looks really promising. Will you ever add support for email?",[144,151],{"value":145,"source":84,"evidence":146},"Is it only available in the US?",[147],{"id":148,"by":149,"text":150},"5732474","vxNsr","Very cool, right now this is only in US? Do you have any plans to scale it here or are you only showing it as a proof-of-concept and will be shortly moving it to developing…",{"value":152,"source":84,"evidence":153},"Is it aimed at developing countries?",[154],{"id":60,"by":61,"text":62},[156,163,170],{"value":157,"source":84,"evidence":158},"txtweb (Intuit)",[159],{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"5732062","suhastech","If you're in India, Intuit has an app ecosystem built around this idea: http:\u002F\u002Ftxtweb.com\u002F",{"value":164,"source":84,"evidence":165},"Google Talk Guru bot",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"5732174","elleferrer","This reminds me of Google Talk Guru, the Google bot that lets you ask simple questions. It was an experimental service a few years ago. I'm not sure if it's still accepting…",{"value":171,"source":84,"evidence":172},"DuckDuckGo-based SMS tool (text-ddg)",[173,177],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"5732007","rpicard","I use something similar that I created all the time. Mine connects to the DuckDuckGo API to pull the Zero-click info which is sourced from Wikipedia, Crunchbase, and a bunch of…",{"id":178,"by":175,"text":179},"5734196","I have the code up on GitHub, but the server I've been using to host the application myself isn't up right now. I have to debug some problem, but I don't think there is anything…",{"comments":181,"answered":32,"key":182},9,[183,186,189],{"id":184,"text":185},"5732151","That's a great feature we haven't considered implementing yet, we will focus on it asap. Thanks!",{"id":187,"text":188},"5732212","That sounds really cool. Definitely will check it out. Thanks.",{"id":190,"text":191},"5732028","Thanks! 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