Releasing a new sms alerts for bitcoin, oh, it's free

[sheldonkennedy]

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.

[sheldonkennedy]

Just added Coinbase to the list.

Now supports mtgox, btc-e, and coinbase.

More exchanges and currencies coming soon!

[WayTooGosu]

Good job on this! How do you intend to pay for the costs of hosting and other things? Do you have a donation wallet?

[sheldonkennedy]

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.

[abstractednerve]

could you add cryptsy?

[Graphene]

Could you add BitStamp?

[jonanon]

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

 

[sheldonkennedy]

could you add cryptsy?

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

Could you add BitStamp?

Yup, I'll add that one too!

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.

[sheldonkennedy]

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!

[zora]

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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[Regulater]

Will definitely be using this. This has been needed, and will definitely donate sometime after I use it for a while.

[sheldonkennedy]

could you add cryptsy?

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

[infinitybo]

@Sheldonkennedy It's seems an interesting website anyways you have done a great job !

[bitpop]

Is it php? I would love to help! I love twilio/tropo

[sheldonkennedy]

Yes, it's PHP. Feel free to PM me or contact me through the site!

Thanks for the kind words guys

[infinitybo]

@sheldonkennedy Yes that's right moreover PHP websites are unconditionally good !

[sheldonkennedy]

Yes that's right moreover PHP websites are unconditionally good !

What?

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