Sigapy: a failed attempt to create a product in Paraguay

A little more than a year ago, I created a service which main intention was to provide my fellow Paraguayans living abroad, an easy way to call home using their smartphones. It was not like Viber or Tango app, you couldΒ actually call to land lines and mobile phones, and of course between Sigapy users.

There’s no specialized service like this in Paraguay, and I wanted to fill that void with something new and easy to use, and so Sigapy was born. It was conceived as an academical project but soon it started to appear exploitable as a commercial service, but the environment for this kind of business in Paraguay isn’t the best (actually, it’s horrible) and I had to shut it down for my own juridical sake.

Today, I decided someone else can give it a try, because it’s a more or less mature product and can easily be adapted to someone else’s needs.

Check out the videos and the landing page I created. The videos are in Spanish, but the flow can be understood by anyone.

DWG2000 API Windows demo

Finally a full-featured and executable demo is available for downloading and testing.

It runs on any Windows box with dotNet framework 2.0 installed on it. Personally, I tested the app on Windows XP and Windows 7.

To try it, decompress the zip file and paste the only two DLL files into %windir%System32 folder. Then, run the executable file.

This is a very early demo application and it may contain bugs. In case of that, please report it to my personal email so I can fix it.

dwg2000-demo

C# bindings for DWG2000 SMS API

Yes, it’s done and as I promised in my previous post, I am releasing it to the public.

This project started when a local company hired me to make the API support for Linux. It was a success and the sms-client started to work right away. It was not until 2 or 3 months after finishing the project that the idea of making the source code public came to my mind and despite this project may not be a great contribution to the community, it is the first of (hopefully) many.

This particular branch of the project might be specially useful for writing quick VAS software on top of the gateway. It is much easier to write business logic algorithms in C# than in C and in my case, that’s exactly what happened.

Get a copy from my github account