There have been many times when I wanted to get something quickly from my browser to my phone. A Google Map before heading out, or an app someone messaged me to check out on Facebook.

So I built Trnsfr. It's super-simple: click the bookmarklet and it'll SMS your phone with whatever URL you're looking at.

That's it. But it's made my life a little better already. Hopefully it'll improve yours too.

What do you guys think?

Haven't tried it (not in the US), but it sounds neat: Having a bookmarklet makes invoking it painless, and opening an URL from an SMS should be easy from most phones. I'm assuming the SMS delivery is basically instant. It's also cross-platform on both ends.

That said, these days I just use Fox To Phone (or Chrome to Phone) to accomplish this. This platform-specific solution works better than sending an SMS would. It also does a few things in addition to just transferring URLs.

In the past, I had a browser extension that created a 2d barcode for the current page. It worked in a pinch, but scanning the barcode with the phone is relatively time-consuming and, overall, just a nuisance. FWIW, you could do the barcode thing with a bookmarklet, too, and end up with a solution that's cross-platform on both ends.

I really liked the idea of Chrome to Phone on Android, so I built Send to WP7 for Windows Phone. I kind of feel that using SMS is really only a good fallback solution for phones without a good app (not to mention removing the need for cell signal, etc.). Cool project though, a great use for Twilio. :) Nice job!

I personally don't care if your project took 1 day or 1 year. I feel like by mentioning it the subtext is:

"Look what can be accomplished in one day, isn't that neat?"

and

"Be nice, it was just one day"

But really only the latter is useful (e.g. we won't be too harsh on missing pieces) and I think you can convey it by simply saying, "Early version", "Quick MVP", etc. Those say something more useful, too! They say if you plan on iterating further or not, or if this is meant as a MVP or just a portfolio piece or what.

My friend and I developed something similar for a hackathon a few years ago.

There's a bookmarklet for the browser and an Android app.

http://pagestackandroid.appspot.com/

Ours only work on Android app while Trnsfr could work on any phone with SMS.

Hi,

Good idea ( I use Chrome to Phone on my android, to do that kind of think). FYI : I tried the website and entered a random number I got a blank webpage with an error:

Traceback (most recent call last): File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/_webapp25.py", line 703, in __call__ handler.post(groups) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~trnsfrapp/1.354335415123281066/main.py", line 388, in post body=body) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~trnsfrapp/1.354335415123281066/twilio/rest/resources.py", line 1018, in create return self.create_instance(params) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~trnsfrapp/1.354335415123281066/twilio/rest/resources.py", line 295, in create_instance resp, instance = self.request("POST", self.uri, data=body) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~trnsfrapp/1.354335415123281066/twilio/rest/resources.py", line 195, in request resp = make_twilio_request(method, uri, auth=self.auth, *kwargs) File "/base/data/home/apps/s~trnsfrapp/1.354335415123281066/twilio/rest/resources.py", line 168, in make_twilio_request raise TwilioRestException(resp.status_code, resp.url, message) TwilioRestException: HTTP ERROR 400: 21401: +15555557777 is not a valid phone number https://api.twilio.com/2010-04-01/Accounts/AC36119600c07b44d...

Good continuation

For those not in the US, there is http://airlinkapp.com/, it's neat. Just add the bookmarklet to both browser and phone.

The War on vowels continues...

This feature is built into android. Just install the chrome to phone app by google & the plugin for chrome or firefox (fox to phone). Good for non-android phones I guess though.

I use Prowl on my iPhone http://www.prowlapp.com/ and 2Prowl extension for Safari http://extensions.dreamtbyphil.co.uk/ to easily push the page I'm looking at in Safari to my phone.

There are extensions for Chrome and Firefox as well http://www.prowlapp.com/apps.php

OT: The first thing I thought of was the Discover card commercial with Peggy. "Transfer!"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZXZAlfykpo

Sorry, couldn't resist. Inspiration or coincidence?

I use qr codes for this. A well placed Qr Bookmarlet (such as this[1] one), and barcode scanner, and I'm done.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/qrbookmarklet/

What's wrong with just e-mailing link to yourself?

If your phone can view a website, it's very likely it can read e-mails too.

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The page where you enter your credit card probably should be SSL?

So do QRcode extensions.