The list stays in Excel, the messages go out from your own phone.
What the application does
- Reads the list from Excel: the phone number and the message text sit in a table, so you prepare the list whichever way suits you — by pasting, with a formula, or by exporting from another program.
- Writes the date and time of every send: a row already sent is skipped, so starting again continues where it stopped and nobody receives the same message twice.
- Creates the working table itself: if the list does not exist yet, the application creates it with the column headings in place and can open it in your spreadsheet program.
- Follows your system language: it is recognised on first run, you can change the choice and it is remembered.
- Checks the environment before the first send: if something is not ready it says what, instead of stopping halfway through the list.
How you use it
- Fill in the table: phone numbers in one column, the message text in another.
- Start the application and pair your phone, exactly as when you open Google Messages on a computer.
- The application walks through the list and sends the messages while you watch how far it has got.
- At the end the table is your record: the date and time each message was sent, next to its row.
Who it pays off for
This is not a tool for advertising campaigns but for the messages that are sent by hand anyway, only there are too many of them: delivery notices, reminders of an appointment or of a payment due, calling members to a meeting. If someone is paid today to spend an hour copying numbers into a phone, this is that hour.
Messages go from your number through your own mobile plan, so there is no monthly subscription with an SMS service and no charge per message — and the recipient sees your number rather than some service's.
What you get:
- A finished Windows application: the numbers and the message texts sit in an Excel table, and the application sends them row by row.
- It writes the date and time next to every row it sends, so starting again continues where it stopped and nobody receives the same message twice.
- Messages leave from your number and your phone, through your own mobile plan — no subscription with an SMS service and no charge per message.
- One package that carries everything it needs, with no separate .NET runtime to install.
For this package I commit to:
- The installer reaches your e-mail address within three days of the payment received, with instructions for the first run.
- Help with the first run and with pairing the phone if you get stuck.
- A build for 32-bit and for 64-bit Windows, matching the system you have.
- One month of support with using the application.
Sending SMS through Google Messages
Version
Price 6.000 RSD (approx. $59)
Not included in this package:
- Sending SMS over the internet or from someone else's number — messages go only through your own phone.
- Mac and Linux: the application runs on Windows.
- Adapting the application to special requirements and building a custom table.
Please prepare for this package:
- A Windows computer, 32-bit or 64-bit, with Google Chrome installed.
- An Android phone with the Google Messages app and a signed-in Google account, for pairing with the computer.
- Internet access and write permission for the folder the application runs from.
- The e-mail address the installer is sent to — the same one you leave with the order.
How the application came about
It grew out of one concrete job, and what was hard in that project and how it was solved is written up under driving a browser from a desktop application.
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