Pedal Wrencher: 1000 Notifications Sent

Thu, 26 Nov 2015 00:00:00 +0000

About 8 months ago I launched www.pedalwrencher.com, as written up here. At the time, it was a single file Flask app, held together with rubber bands and bubble gum, but functional. I managed to get a bit of press in some cycling industry news sources, and even went out to Sea Otter to talk to some potential partners in the industry.

In the end, it just wasn’t a clear enough business case to monetize it, but it’s nearly free to keep running, so it’s a nice thing to keep working on here and there. It just passed the 1000th SMS sent out to a user, so in honor of that milestone, I thought I would do a bit of a retrospective here on what I learned in terms of the technology and the business. First the technology:

Twilio on McGinnis, Will

Pedal Wrencher: 1000 Notifications Sent