[PHP] Send text messages to cell phones

to check if it was working i sent myself 100 messages and it opened 100 message boxes on my iphone...gonna be a bitch to delete them -.-
glad it works!

 

I've already hit like 6 people with 100. I'd like to hit a friend with 1000 :3

 

Looks awesome, time to piss my sister off.

 

Any tips? Should I make people pay for a certain amount of texts? I can make it so you can send a thousand.. or ten thousands messages. It just takes up alot of resources. I want to make this a money-making opportunity. Or just leave it as it is? Idk lol

 

In my opinion, you should leave it for free. Look at 10MinuteMail for example, their service is free. But there is a donation button, so you could put that down if you want.

-LeetNeo.

 

Thanks. If you guys are wondering why I limited the number of messages you can send its becaues Im worried about the FCC and other spam restrictions and statutes. Is this something I should be worried about? Otherwise Ill be glad to put 1000 up lol

 

I think you should first aim to expand to other regions (e.g UK!)

 

I would but its way to complicated. The number system is completely different.

 

I'l try
thanks

 

Make it free, with donations accepted + google ads. But be sure not to overkill the site with ads. (keep your website very clean and not cluttered) Following those simple rules you should be making a bit of revenue in good time

Also are you able to make this work for overseas carriers?

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Keep in mind that there are also other free services like this, that you will be competing with. And seeing how anyone can do this by simply sending the phone carrier an email.
But you're on the right track buddy, there is definately money to be made here.

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Also you may benefit from this list of carriers domains.
http://www.livejournal.com/tools/textmessage.bml?mode=details

 

Every google adsense account I make eventually gets disabled because of suspicious activity. I do not click my own ads or anything.

I can add support for overseas, but it will take some time. I feel the site is good enough now for the US and CANADA to start marketing. I think donations are great for right now. My script is unique because you are able to send texts from ANY email address. Not a servers hostname (such as [email protected]), which I see many texting sites have. Also it is not from a number, but rather any email address you would like.

And you have the ability to send a high quantity, (SPAM lol). I am questioning where I should set the limit with that, right now it is at 50. I could make is 10,000 if I want to but I dont want to get in trouble. Looking forward to your response.

 

Yer i had the same problem with Adsense when i was playing with EliteSwitch. I just kept creating several accounts with them, it was worth the hassle in the end.

Ahh true, i didn't quite understand how your script work but that does definately seem to be unique. Also it's probable is better to get the site up then add overseas support later.

If you intend to actually make this legit, than i would suggest not letting people send extreme spam messages as this will attract attention and could lead to court action. (unless you have registered all the online domains, servers etc under alias's).

One last thing might be a bit of an idea to gain a little bit more money from this. If give every user the ability to send 1 - 10 messages per hour (or on some sort of time limit), but then have the option to make some sort of donation (minimum of $5 or something) but then this lets them have the option of sending up to 50 messages with no time restriction, thus they can spam their friends if they like and you shouldn't be held accountable for it.

One last thing, if you add a country code to a US carrier will it work or not?

 

Would love this if you make it working with Italian carriers

 

For the US Carriers, adding a country code did not work for my phone. I think that is a good idea. Is there anything else to use other then adsense? Are you sure that your account eventually stopped getting closed?

I could probobly do it with cookies or something, Im going to try to use moneybookers or alertpay for donations. For now, I also need a better web template.

 

Actually i think i got the shits with Google (adsense) and ended up using Adbrite. You don't get as much revenue as adsense but every little bit helps.

Adsense


Adbrite


Quite a significant drop in the cash you pull in, but like i said every bit helps.

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As for your site layout, i quite like it. Simple is better.

But changing a few things like font style and the site colours may benefit you a little, and possibly removing the 'supported carriers' list, and add a link on the top right (near privacy and terms) for support carriers. Just so it reduces clutter on the page.

Other than that, if you can get the word out about this, i think you are onto something.

 

I think i'll just get traffic right now. It seems to be building pretty well.

 

That is so fucking awesome.

 

Can you give me the error? Sometimes the auto-detect feature doesnt work. I havnt been able to test t-mobile numbers yet it would be great if you could help me out.

 

Yer i recently did it to my mates. (he lives in the states, unlike me). And he said he didn't get any bombardment of messages.

There were no error messages, said it sent successfully.
And i typed the number in correctly (leaving the 1 off the front)

 

What carrier did it say it sent to? Could you copy and paste the whole thing?