Am I the only one considering it a bit dodgy that the headline of this submission sounds like this was eg a blog post describing how to add SMS but instead you get to a commercial site?<p>I mean, I'd have nothing against this if the submitter had asked for feedback/review or simply had used a more honest title. :/
Wow! I really like this!<p>It seems to be a simple, flexible version of TextMarks, without all the bullshit.<p>[edit] Yeah, you should publish the prices on the page. It appears to be 5¢ per SMS, or $25 for 500.
As other commenters noted, they are providing something that a lot of other companies provide, such as the company I work for, Ez Texting.<p>Here's my plug: we can deliver to the US and Canada, our prices start @ 5 cents an SMS and go down from there, we've got a memorable short code (313131) and we already support a lot of people through our API. <a href="http://www.eztexting.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eztexting.com/api.html</a>
I knew you were from Pittsburgh as soon as I saw your name!<p>Interesting product, but your "How it works" page would be more comprehensible with a diagram or a flow chart.<p>This would be an excellent product if you need a short code, but $0.05 is a little steep for me. I'd rather use an email address (text@gumband.com for example) to send my SMS messages.
With Gumband, your users send to the shared shortcode with your keyword, but if you want a dedicated/international incoming SMS number, I've been happy user of <a href="http://csoft.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://csoft.co.uk/</a> for about 2 years now.
Why do SMS web service prices vary so much? How does this service do a better job than Penny SMS who charge $0.01/message and provide return messages via email? <a href="https://www.pennysms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pennysms.com/</a>
Apart from a nicer website, how is this service any different from Mobivity, or half a dozen others? Maybe it's substantially cheaper but I can't seem to find any pricing information.