Texpress

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  Facebook Messenger Interface

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  SMS interface

Inspiration

• O2
• Giffgaff
• Nuclear winter
• The tube
• Scotland
• When you've run out of data for the month

O2 technicians walking into work today#o2down pic.twitter.com/KgOcykEFTk

— Rob Walker (@llamedos77) December 6, 2018

Thanks to @O2 I currently have a very expensive paper weight on my desk. #o2down

— Craig Osborne (@ozzyldn) December 6, 2018

What it does

• Lets you keep in touch with the world while bereft of WiFI/3G/4G/5G/etc

How we built it

• with computers and qwerty keyboards
• with WiFI/3G/4G/5G

Challenges we ran into

• AMEX rejected my credit application

Accomplishments that we're proud of

• Sending more SMSes than most people have sent in their lives
• Sending them for free
• Not contributing towards any telco outages

What we learned

• Unlimited SMSes should be used & abused

What's next for Texpress

• Dialup support
• Image support
• GIFs over SMS

Built With

• concrete-bunkers
• decentralised-networks
• tinfoil-hats