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by snac 1235 days ago
This is actually incredible useful for what I work with, very cool to get a pulse on brand strategies. How did you get the data in?
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Thanks for the comment! We started with subscribing to some brands manually with our own number to see if the idea was viable for about a month before trying to do it at scale by looking for which brands offered SMS and using something like a Twilio virtual phone number to get the message they send to us via API to put in the database. We currently spend a few hours every month to do that and to add more features.