1. I’ve seen a lot of people who immigrated on H1B, were working with an employer and eventually started their own company. I am assuming they were already working on it on the side. What’s the best way to go about this without breaking any law?
2. Can you start a company on the name of a family member who’s a green card holder and voluntarily work for this company?
1.) Yor activities need to be limited and you can't be compensated in any way but unfortunately this requires a conversation with an immigration attorney to understand clearly what can and can't be done so that no lines are crossed and there are no negative long-term repercussions.
2.) No for several reasons, some legal and some advisory.
Thanks for putting that together!
Charts and the statistics are quite interesting
and its good to know about driving habits.
I am gonna give Open Torque Viewer a try soon.
hey timdaub, thanks for the feedback and sorry for the constant notifications you might be getting, we are pretty low on users right now. You should not receive as many once we get more users :)
Correct me If I'm wrong but I believe the mentioned alternatives do not provide a REST API or other features like retry, throttling, support for multiple GSM modems.
Choosing between twilio or this definitely depends on your use case.
Gosms is handy when you have no internet connection, you require total control over the infrastructure and such. Use twilio when you don't want to worry about anything and just send messages. There could be more scenarios too.
Twilio's pricing schemes change per country, for us in India (where 1 Rupee = 100 Paisa and USD 1 = ~62 Rupees), twilio charges 60 paisa per message. At the same time, some tel-com providers have plans that cost only 5 paisa per message. India has other limits and regulations but for personal/in-house use they hardly matter.
To add to this, If you want to send fast worldwide SMS reliably and without much hassle, use twilio or plivo or other such web sms gateways.
If you want to send SMS locally, for cheap and willing to hack your way around, give GoSMS a shot.
Given the time a modem takes to send an SMS, with a single modem connected, the rate of sending SMS is low (~1 message / 5 second).
By modem we mean any GSM Modem device. Like a USB Data Card used for internet access, or a mobile phone connected via USB. You can send SMS anywhere. Software just allows you to use your phone / usb data card to send messages.
