(Wow, a reply and a positive one at that!)
> Do you plan on charging for the service? And specifically for SMS/email alerts?
I haven't given much thought about that yet. I do plan to find a way to generate revenue eventually (at least to keep the lights on and keep my stomach full if I'm lucky) but I'm not sure what form it will take yet. I think I will probably go with a freemium type model: a free basic version and a paid version with additional features. Or have a free web app and sell a paid mobile app? Or make it free for wallets with less than X BTC and paid for wallets with more than X BTC? Or have everything free but charge for API usage? Just run on donations and hope that BTC will go to the moon?
Those are just some ideas off the top of my head. Are SMS alerts something you'd be willing to pay for? Otherwise, are there any set of features that you think would be worth paying for? In any case, I'll give you a free coupon because you are a self proclaimed poor developer and you were the first to post here
Thanks for the post by the way, really cheered me up!
I'm glad I cheered you up
I really see a need for this service, people don't have the time to monitor their wallets 24/7 and with your service this would be possible.
I can see many of those ideas are viable. Others (like only charging wallets below X BTC) would only lead to abuse (people would create many smaller ones).
Definitely, SMS alerts is something I'd be willing to pay for (with a good gateway so no messages get lost / undelivered) since I believe it's the most reliable way to get notified almost anywhere in the world.
If the wallet is
very important to me, I'd pay to have another backup gateway (In case no SMS delivery confirmation, the message would be sent through another provider). This could be an extra service on top of the normal one.
Maybe you could implement a freemium model with a limit of features per period of time (for example, maximum 10X email notifications and X SMS notifications per month in the free plan, and so on for each paid plan).
I assume, since you said you wrote a wallet, that we'd be notified of TXs immediately - so this would be a great service.
Thanks in advance for the free coupon, really appreciate it