Laid-Off Workers Get Entrepreneurial For Valentine’s Day
In case you missed Iamsaintnick.com, the fun Christmas gift referral service started by two laid-off Seattle techies – they’re back with a Valentine’s version launching today.
Iamsaintvalentino.com does the same sort of thing: Visitors enter the phone number of their special someone, who then gets an automated call from Saint Valentino. When they describe the gifts they’d like to receive on Feb. 14, speech-to-text software they built develops a shopping list and the site offers links to Amazon.com.
It sounds simple, but it took some creativity and finesse by developers Matt Steckler, 32, and Andres Krogh, 25, who are now trying to build their voice-recognition-based gift system into a year-round business. Possibilities include white labeling the service or developing versions for birthdays or weddings.
They started the Christmas version after being laid-off from Seattle’s Haute Secure in September.
Photo by Iamsaintvalentino.com.
Jaclyn on February 11th, 2009 12:00 pm
That is just about the cutest idea i’ve ever heard of for the holiday’s both their christmas and valentines day idea’s! especially for valentines day…this i think would be really great for men who arn’t too sure what their lady want’s for valentines day, they can have the site call her, she can list out some idea’s and then poof….they have a list of site’s on where to find all her ideas. that is just awesome.
jaeda on February 11th, 2009 1:37 pm
great! fantastic!
cassy on February 11th, 2009 4:34 pm
thats a good idea for men who can now think on what to give to their love one,this will be a big help for them and the time to show how much he really love his special one, great and perfect idea for this coming valentine day!
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