Locent (YC S15) Lets Businesses Sell Products via Text Message

I have never seen this before. Pretty awesome!

Hi Ryan, I know it's possible to use a QR Code to generate a SMS message [1], so I was wondering if you generated QR Codes for your customers? My thought is to avoid having (trusting) a (error prone) human being to correctly input a phone number and a keyword in a SMS when you can automate it.

[1] just one example I found via a quick search http://goqr.me/qr-codes/type-qr-sms.html

What kind of selling are you starting with? Single-item small-volume individual sales (like snapchat for ebay)? Large-volume sales (like Amazon)? Time-sensitive sales?

Do you plan to work on distribution, or only on connecting buyers and sellers? I can almost see, for example, having a local clothing store list each of their shirts with your service. Then someone sees a shirt they want, text, and get it delivered.

Best of luck!

Apart from the fact that there was no texting in the 90s, I'd agree. More like a 2009's idea if you ask me. But we like to think it's a bit smoother of a process than visiting ecommerce. Plus it's easy for existing business to push customers into a text channel than it is to set up their own ecommerce site.