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0 pointsalando469y ago0 comments

Sms Lists is an sms craigslist for refugee camps. I made it after visiting a couple of refugee camps and realizing that it was really hard for business owners who made <$1/day to have any extra money left over to re-invest in marketing their businesses. Code is here: https://github.com/alando46/smslists

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tibu9y ago· 1 in thread

This is really a great project. Would be worth to give more details how it is possible to reuse it. Do you think it work for homeless people too?

alando46OP9y ago

Thanks! I'm working on linking it up an android gateway so anyone who wants to test / try it out only needs a local simcard and the ability to download the gateway software to an android handset. This basically already exists (https://telerivet.com/product/app), it's just a matter of setting everything up.

dudeofea9y ago

greate stuff! I feel that for things like this, the real problem to solve is getting it out to people, which might be why some programmers shy away from it. Though, I love stuff like this. Not everything needs to be disrupted by a pool of GPU-assisted tensorflow instances, low-tech is still way better than no-tech. Keep up the good work, and hmu if you need an extra hand

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