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I've finally reached MVP stage for this and would really love to know what HN thinks.

What do you think I should change on the landing page, or in the app?

It is built with Sinatra running on Heroku and uses Twilio for SMS services.

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Is there a way to try it without paying first? Or is there a demo video?

There isn't. A demo video is definitely on my roadmap. I'd love to find a way to offer a free demo too, but I'm trying to bootstrap this and twilio charges me for phone numbers and msgs.

Maybe I could allocate a few numbers and let people demo with one of those for a little while.

I understand it's hard to offer a free demo. But then a video is really essential. I think patio11 offers a free demo on his Appointment Reminder site, which also uses Twilio. Maybe you can ask him how much it costs to see if it's affordable?

I'll reprioritize the video higher on my roadmap and I think I've got some ideas now on how to let you demo it without signing up.

Thanks for your comments.

Is it affordable to give a demo poll, which closes automatically when you get 5 votes?

The SMS msgs themselves are cheap, it is getting the numbers that might add up. What I'm thinking is allocating a block of numbers, maybe 5-10 for now and many more if/when this takes off and then letting you create a poll with one of those. The interesting part will be not letting numbers be used in a close enough time period that someone would skew someone else's poll results.

Allow me to see pricing without signing up.

Noted. Thank you!

So you don't have to login to see pricing, it starts at $10 for what I think most people would use and goes up from there.

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