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Make a first embryo to the server part responsible for reservation through SMS, Email, Twitter #16

Open joakimbengtson opened 10 years ago

joakimbengtson commented 10 years ago

Start to implement a server part that responds to reservation requests described in the spec: https://github.com/bookio/client/blob/master/docs/syntax-very-short-reservation-language.md

javidgon commented 10 years ago

@joakimbengtson I´ve done a small research about this feature and it seems a bit tricky in terms of development (it would require a considerable amount of time). My question then: is it ¨completely¨ required for the first release? Cause in my eyes (I can be wrong) it seems like a ¨nice to have¨ feature in order to easy out the user experience, but it doesn´t do anything that It cannot be done through the website right?

mounte commented 10 years ago

@joakimbengtson, @javidgon I have previously done some small, really small, tests with different services for SMS and voice messaging. I have a short list of pricing and feature-vise I think that 46elks, tropo (+ for development plan that is free) and twilio are best options. Short summary of pricing below... hope it works... image

I also agree that this is a Would-like to have feature and we should keep it in mind for how our API is developing. Also stateless is not really necessary we can easily track a users messages in chronological order and have a very simple state-machine that handles the actions.

joakimbengtson commented 10 years ago

Sorry for late reply, just recovered from a nasty cold, my brain just started to work again ;) We can release a 1.0 without SMS (as hinted by the roadmap). But I think its an important feature, not only for reminders and "marketing". The aim for bookio is to reach a global market, an important USP (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unique_selling_proposition) is that a reservation can be done through an "old" mobile and in areas where mobile data traffic is unavailable/unreliable (this is quickly changing though…). http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/rail-tickets-booking-sms-irctc-mallikarjun-kharge/1/286302.html

joakimbengtson commented 10 years ago

Maybe the Todos should have a label "1.0" or something, I wanted to be sure there was enough with todos so everyone can find something that feels fun/challenging/doable.