[Nition]

One issue I can forsee:

- Every contractor (plumber etc) you hire will ask you to please add them to your contact list first so that they can message you.

- After a while of half their clients not doing that and lots of fees on their end, contractors stop providing a phone number at all, asking you to please install ContractorApp to communicate with them.

[thejazzman]

I love every part of this. Not having things in writing is one of the most common tactics with bad contractors. And I miss their call backs because I have unknowns goto spam, so I have to remember to disable that feature...

[GoblinSlayer]

Here they do already use watsapp, viber etc for communication, maybe because they are cheaper.

>Every contractor (plumber etc) you hire will ask you to please add them to your contact list first so that they can message you.

This is reasonable. If they want to reach me, they should whitelist in advance instead of hoping they can randomly get through.

[red-iron-pine]

aye. i have a business relationship with these people, let me know how to communicate with you ahead of time so I can whitelist or clear that.

[crummy]

Maybe when you first receive a text you see:

This message is from an unknown number. (Accept / Block / Charge sender $1)

[telgareith]

Well, that just invokes we-had-a-baby-its-a-boy

[sailfast]

They had a baby.

It’s a boy!

That said - perhaps harder to change the name that shows up as quickly as you could leave a recorded name? :)

Still one of the best ads ever made.

[Nition]

Ha! Okay, I like this, I think it changes my mind on the whole thing being viable. There's probably some reason it wouldn't work in reality but the satisfaction from pressing the charge $1 option on spam would be huge.

I disagree about the we-adda-baby-itsa-boy issue. I don't see how that'd apply given that you can charge them $1 from the very first message.

[zeroonetwothree]

They already charge $200 so I doubt $1 extra is going to matter.

[asah]

one click to add from the first message = $1 total cost.

contractors can add this to their invoices if they care.