Vakow is an interesting fun product, which is building a community of people who just love SMS forwards!
Use Vakow to:
- Build a collection of cool SMSes
- Tag, rate (or bury) the uploaded SMSes and share with your friends
- Subscribe to interesting users (or tags) to receive cool SMSes
How does Vakow work?
Once you register, you can forward your SMS from mobile or enter them in the web interface. Your SMSes are rated by the other users, who can forward the SMS to their friend’s mobile as well as email address.
What’s cool about Vakow?
The idea will be a super hit among the young crowd, who just love forwarding SMS jokes (and what not!) to their friends..
The founding team has taken care of ensuring the quality of SMSes that makes it to the front page. So for e.g. you can forward a SMS only when it has made to the front page (and you will need a certain number of votes to do that).
Vakow’s neat UI and quality content definitely increases the stickiness index of the site!! The product can be monetized in a number of ways- be it embedding text ads with every sms or creating branded SMS universe.
Feature suggestions:
- Give users more control:: how about allowing users to club a collection of mobile numbers under a category (say, family/friends/girl friends etc)?
- For more viral growth, integrate vakow with user’s yahoogroups/googlegroups account.
Do give Vakow a spin. I am sure you will love it!
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Idea is Fantastic. But my conjecture is that MOST of the people will FWD from web to mobile but not that much from mobile to web as of web to mobile.
One suggestion: if my sms get hit front page [Max votes], Vakow should send SMS to me about the front page hit of my SMS. instead of viewing it on the site frequently when my SMS comes to First.
Hey,
Thanks for the nice post Ashish. I like the term “SMS Forward Engine”.
A bit of clarification on the following:
“So for e.g. you can forward a SMS only when it has made to the front page (and you will need a certain number of votes to do that).”
An SMS does need a minimum score (+2) so that it can be forwarded but it need not be on the front page. Front page SMSes are editorially chosen from SMSes available on Vakow!
Friends Grouping and some sort of integration with Yahoo/Google Groups are great suggestions that we would like to implement in some way.
cheers
rg
Vakow!
Very interesting product!! Its good to see innovative concepts implied in such a regular service.
very nice product indeed.
Good product.
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try to make it to international level
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hi sir this open the web site some times mail not open ple coprate me.
its best bestest site for forwarding sms
This is the best site for forwarding MSGs but now i cant forward any MSGs form this website…
They will say “SMS delivery is currently out of service.
most of the time when i try tpo log on the vakow during the day itme it always shows gateway error. i dont wat is the problem but it is sure that it is from ther side
It is one of the best site for forwarding sms. But you forgot about Vakow and Twitter integration?
vkaow just rox
and all vakow members also
a luv vakow
the best sms u will get anywhere
very easy to use
Its nt to gud as compared to sms gupshup as there is no dilivery of post at curent. Bt there s no advt in the post. Lastly its gud enough.
Frnds send any or every type of sms on 9998961736, just send ur name and city 4 cofirmation.
Also join my group on sms gupshup, JOIN VASAYA.
ITS MINdBLOWing. Frnds join these.
Parvez rocks……
Also join keshwani0.
Send sms on my nu.
Waiting plz reply.
No phn cals allowed.
Join VASAYA
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Top group of sms gupshup.
Yes i have join group vasaya on gupshup.
Its a nice group and i recieves the msg which i wait for.
I request al frnds to join these group.
Love these group also
join love_4u
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Msgs rocks……
Vasaya hits……
if the mess will automatic come to moile it will well fro usssssssssss
I like your web side I wish your Staff . The most of the time when i try tpo log on the vakow during the day itme it always shows gateway error. I dont wat is the problem but it is sure that it is from ther side
riteshjha
In Vakow.com SMS delivery service is out of order.
So i feel bad…
Im checking regularly for getting a good news that says “SMS DELIVERY BACK AGAIN” for 6 months…
But No Use…