Thanks for the feedback guys. It's a very simple news item so SMS is the most efficient way to deliver it to the broadest audience.
The ASX has released a free iphone app to monitor stocks which offers push notifications on sensitive news. Our target audience is everybody else. My business partner is handling the marketing side of things, we've set a time budget for this project and if it works we're happy and if it doesn't we'll move on to the next idea. Vamsi On May 26, 7:08 pm, Brendan Quinn <bren...@cluefulmedia.com> wrote: > re push notifications, check out Prowlhttp://www.prowlapp.com/. It > has a really simple RESTful API that lets you push any notification to > any user easily. After hearing about it at a local Twitter devnest in > London, I hooked my little site (http://www.aggrity.com/) up and now I > get a push notification for every new user / invite request, and it's > free for low volumes! Very cool. Maybe it could be integrated into > stocktrap somehow. > > Brendan. > > On 25 May 2011 10:48, Matthew Ho <matt.h...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > I actually think stocktrap is the better idea. > > > Simple idea and I reckon people would pay for it. Its like GroupMe > > meets stocks announcements. > > > I'd be interested to see whether you could build it as a web app/ > > native app and use push notifications. The thing I like about SMS is > > that you will always receive it - well in more cases than push > > notifications! That is the advantage of SMS over push notifications > > (i.e. GroupMe vs Beluga). This data is so valuable that people want to > > ensure that they recieve it. > > > I'm guessing you are using an aggregator like Iguana to get real time > > stock data via an XML feed. > > > Very cool. > > > Cheers, > > > Matt > > Airbnb > > @inspiredworlds > > > On May 25, 3:58 pm, Vamsi Gullapalli <vamsi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> I'll be joining the meetup group this Friday for the first time so I > >> wanted to intro myself here as well. > > >> Economics student by day and web developer by night , now that my > >> contract job is tapering off thought it best it to fill the time with > >> projects I find useful. > > >> Low risk, low effort, low reward venture here:www.stocktrap.com.au > > >> High risk, high effort , high reward venture here:www.docketplace.com.au > > >> See you all on Friday. > > >> Cheers > > >> Vamsi > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach > > Australia mailing list. > > > Guidelines on > > discussion:http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e13... > > > No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. > > > To post to this group, send email to > > silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > > For more options, visit this group at > >http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Silicon Beach Australia mailing list. Guidelines on discussion: http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia/msg/351e183e1303508d?hl=en%3Fhl%3Den No lurkers! It is expected that you introduce yourself. To post to this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to silicon-beach-australia+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia?hl=en?hl=en
