November 16, 2008
I have an idea for a browser extension / plug-in related to the SayNoTo1890.com website. Not having the technical skills myself, I thought I’d see if there’s someone out there who might be able to help.
As I don’t make any money from this site (not enough to cover hosting and domain expenses at least), this would be non-paying work, but wherever possible credit would be given to whomever can come up with a final working solution that we could offer to SayNoTo1890.com site users - and web users in general.
My idea is as follows:
- SayNoTo1890.com and its users compiles a listing of geographical alternatives to the 1890, 1850 and 0818 numbers provided by many Irish organisations as their primary contact point.
- The benefit of these geographical alternatives is that they allow consumers who have minutes bundles and packages on their landline and mobile avoid the sometime enormous cost per minute to call these numbers.
- The requirement is to construct a browser extension / plug-in that would provide the geographical alternative on screen for all these organisations beside where they provide an 1890, 1850 or 0818 number on their own website where such an alternative is available within the SayNoTo1890.com site.
A mock-up of what I’m thinking about is included in the screen-shot below.

If you think this is something that you can help out with, or if you’d like any further information, drop me an e-mail here.

4 responses to "Call for extension / plug-in Developers"
Wow! A plug-in like that would be unbelievably brilliant!! Whenever you want to contact someone such as e-flow or whoever, you don’t always have the geographic number to hand, and I don’t always think of checking it out here, but a little app like that would be a fantastic time and money saver. I hope someone can do this for you!
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Great idea, but take baby steps! The first requirement would have to be some sort of API (however basic) so the plugin can query it.
That requires a database of these numbers, which would make the website a lot easier to use/search/submit to (rather than the current blog-based structure).
I would, then, worry about how that API/database gets used outside the site (and the plugin would be brilliant!).
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