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This looks excellent, although at the moment I can't think of a use aside from notifications (which is awesome either way).

But you NEED to go after sms payments. They're horrendous at the moment and completely unusable for most people because of the high fees. I'm really hoping some startup can tackle it and turn it into a viable payment solution.




You might check out http://venmo.com/ They have a dead simple SMS payments platform.

-evan (@twilio)


I checked it out, and it looks handy (requested an invite, but we'll see how it goes) although perhaps I worded it wrong.

I meant sms billing, services like zaypay/daopay. It's just that now the fees are so horribly high that it's almost pointless.


I wonder how they do send payment sans venmo account. According to their info page it can be done with just a cellphone...




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