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Other => Beginners & Help => Topic started by: sheldonkennedy on December 22, 2013, 08:39:08 PM



Title: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 22, 2013, 08:39:08 PM
Feedback welcome, I'll be doing some dev on it over the next few days/weeks, as well!

There's been some good feedback on reddit as well: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/1tg2io/releasing_a_new_sms_alerts_for_bitcoin_oh_its_free/

The site is: http://smscoincheck.com/

Mainly geared toward USA (for now). Simply send a text message and get the current price back.


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 23, 2013, 09:47:29 PM
Just added Coinbase to the list.

Now supports mtgox, btc-e, and coinbase.

More exchanges and currencies coming soon!


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: WayTooGosu on December 23, 2013, 11:21:30 PM
Good job on this! How do you intend to pay for the costs of hosting and other things? Do you have a donation wallet?


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 24, 2013, 12:49:33 AM
I have a donation wallet listed, and also a donation button from coinbase.

I'm not worried about the costs too much, it's a service that should be free.


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: abstractednerve on December 24, 2013, 12:50:23 AM
could you add cryptsy?


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: Graphene on December 24, 2013, 04:47:16 AM
Could you add BitStamp?


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: jonanon on December 24, 2013, 04:48:35 AM
Looks like a great service, any chance that it could be made in to a worldwide service?

 ;)


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 24, 2013, 08:51:04 PM
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could you add cryptsy?

I'll take a look at their API, but it should be no problem!

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Could you add BitStamp?

Yup, I'll add that one too!

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Looks like a great service, any chance that it could be made in to a worldwide service?

"Technically" it is worldwide, you'll just get zapped with fees from your carrier. However, if there are certain countries I get requests from, I can add a number from said country.


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 24, 2013, 09:07:41 PM
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could you add cryptsy?

Looking at their API, they don't have USD support yet. My service only does btc/usd pair right now. I will be changing it up so that you can specify a pair later on.

Bitstamp is added now!


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: zora on December 27, 2013, 08:30:28 AM
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could you add cryptsy?

I'll take a look at their API, but it should be no problem!


If you figure out the magic to get cryptsy's api to reliably work I'd love to hear from you.  I was building something and could not reliably get it.  And as a bonus each time I polled it, it was something like 1.5MB.  Clowns...

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Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: Regulater on December 27, 2013, 08:38:57 AM
Will definitely be using this. This has been needed, and will definitely donate sometime after I use it for a while.


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 27, 2013, 07:10:55 PM
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could you add cryptsy?

I spoke too soon. Their API is weird. I *could* pull BTC/USD *if* they had it.


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: infinitybo on December 28, 2013, 01:41:49 PM
@Sheldonkennedy It's seems an interesting website anyways you have done a great job !


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: bitpop on December 28, 2013, 01:53:55 PM
Is it php? I would love to help! I love twilio/tropo


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on December 28, 2013, 05:17:27 PM
Yes, it's PHP. Feel free to PM me or contact me through the site!

Thanks for the kind words guys :)


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: infinitybo on December 29, 2013, 03:29:16 PM
@sheldonkennedy Yes that's right moreover PHP websites are unconditionally good !


Title: Re: Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free
Post by: sheldonkennedy on January 15, 2014, 09:12:02 PM
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Yes that's right moreover PHP websites are unconditionally good !

What?

In other news, I've added BitcoinAverage to the list.