I wouldn’t go quite so far as to call it a stroke of genius, but pretty cool to see rescu.me getting some love in the physical edition of Entrepreneur magazine.
Rescu.me, my fake txt/phone service, continues to randomly get press, and this week was the biggest spike of all: Lifehacker. I think I got more traffic to the site this week than in the past 6 months put together!
Beyond Lifehacker, rescu.me got a bunch of other coverage this week, including:
- Revision 3’s Hak5 (video above)
- Aol’s switched.com blog (and on Aol’s homepage briefly!)
- Glamour Magazine’s Smitten blog
- MakeUseOf.com
- Ken Rutkowski’s KenRadio
- UrbanDaddy
I built rescu.me purely for fun and to try out the twilio sms api, so it’s been pretty cool to see people use and talk about it, especially on these “professional” blogs and shows.
There is the little problem that I’m personally paying for a bunch of twilio usage, and haven’t really added any ways to make money yet, but people seem to like it, and I’ve definitely received a bunch of great product ideas if I can find the time to build them.
Check out this little app I whipped up for this week’s Twilio developer contest.
Send a text message to (206) 866-5924 with the syntax “<call/sms> <delay> <message>”, and <delay> minutes later, you’ll get a call or text message, rescuing you from whatever situation you’re trying to get out of.
I know similar services exist, but it was a fun little project to whip up to try out Twilio’s ridiculously simple SMS API. All told, including registering the domain, setting up the app, writing the html, and writing the code, this took me a few hours. I could actually see fleshing this out some more - like letting people record custom messages, and charging people who want to use it more than once or twice - but for now it’s dead-simple.
Give it a try!
