Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI

JasGot

@scottalanmiller said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

It's a demo app, not really meant to be used. It's meant to show how to build your own tooling using their API.

Oh. Time to get coding then!

Skyetel

@scottalanmiller said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

@JasGot said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

Any updates to this app? Any plans to update it or replace it? It's still VERY VERY basic.

A couple of things I could really use are:

Import phone numbers and names

Send "bulk" to the people I've entered.

It's a demo app, not really meant to be used. It's meant to show how to build your own tooling using their API.

Version 1.1 is going to be released in about 2 weeks. It will include:

Upload Contacts via CSV
Search - Ability to search through messages & contacts
Automated image scaling for images that run larger than 1.5Mb
Giphy Integration - Send Giphys in SMS!
Send Emojis - Send Emojis!
Templates - Have pre-set messages that can be sent with a click of a mouse
Archive Conversations - Ability to close a conversation and hide it from view
Bulk SMS Sending - Ability to send 1 message to multiple recipients via some kind of Queue. We're calling it announcements
Auto Replies - Be able to automatically reply to a new message
Schedule Sending SMS - Ability to deliver an SMS at a pre-set time
Email Notifications - Ability to notify users that they’ve received an SMS by email using end-user supplied SMTP servers
Postcards Updater - Add the ability to update from one version of Postcards to the next version

I wouldn't say that it is a "Demo App." We do want people to be able to use it as a solid solution, but it's not our company's focus. If you have some development expertise, you can fork it and expand on it. Otherwise you have to just wait for us to give it some TLC. We are going to try to do twice a year updates on it.

Skyetel

You can watch the commits here:
https://bitbucket.org/skyetel/postcards-backend/commits/
https://bitbucket.org/skyetel/postcards-ui/commits/

JasGot

@Skyetel said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

Version 1.1 is going to be released in about 2 weeks. It will include:

How that timeline coming?

Skyetel

@JasGot It was technically released today - so you should be able to install it and start using it now. We'll be doing the formal announcement on Monday (apparently there is a small known bug that our developers want to fix before we release it).

Feel free to spin one up and try it - but I'd suggest waiting until you get the formal email on Monday before putting it in production. I don't personally know what the bug was.

JasGot

@Skyetel said in Introducing Postcards - Our SMS & MMS UI:

@JasGot It was technically released today - so you should be able to install it and start using it now. We'll be doing the formal announcement on Monday (apparently there is a small known bug that our developers want to fix before we release it).

Feel free to spin one up and try it - but I'd suggest waiting until you get the formal email on Monday before putting it in production. I don't personally know what the bug was.

Thanks!