Thanks to a plethora of startups and services (and SXSW), text messaging and group messaging is becoming faster, cheaper, and more and more like instant messaging every day. But what about MMS, and more specifically video messaging — the oft-forgotten cousin of SMS? Many services today offer robust, free SMS functionality, which generally includes the ability to send images, but these apps tend to draw the line at video messaging.
Of course, if you’re anything like SayClip Founder and CEO Romil Patel, you may have family or friends overseas, who you don’t get to see everyday. You’d like to stay in touch and share videos to keep them up to date on what you’re doing. Patel was musing on the limitations of video messaging, when a simple question popped into his head: Wouldn’t it be great if he could send family members video messages, and they could respond in a simple way that would encourage the interaction to happen more often — for free? Yes, yes it would. And thus SayClip was born.
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