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I love this project. It's a great response to a "Ask HN: How can I use my phone to create things rather than consume them?" [0]

I look forward to playing around with this.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25570308

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Oh, wow. I had missed that Ask HN. Thanks for making that connection! There are a bunch of cool suggestions in that thread, particularly regarding photography. I can't get over how good photography has gotten on phones.

Totally, I am a bit obsessed with that thread (and the lack of obvious answers).

Did you use any special tooling to handle SMS in this application? I didn't realize that this wasn't open-sourced when you first posted it.

I would absolutely help maintain this project if you ever get bored of it and don't want to maintain it yourself.

Twilio does the heavy lifting with SMS. My piece is just a short Perl CGI script that downloads attached pictures and rebuilds the sender's site. Thanks! I'll keep that in mind.

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