Track your auctions anywhere with ahTXT

A new startup called ahTXT has just launched a new application that relays real-time eBay seller activity directly to your cell phone.  Now sellers can receive notifications of events as they happen, including sales, questions from buyers, best offers, and even feedback.  It's highly configurable if you wish to tune the types of events and times to receive them.  The service is free and easy to use -- two minutes, and you're ready to go.  Sign up at ahTXT.com.

The ahTXT developers are actually eBay PowerSellers with 100% positive feedback (5390 score).  Neil Mansilla (developer) and his wife, Laura (seller) are always on the move for their jobs.  Staying connected to their online sales inquiries and other activities was always a challenge:

 

We used WAP on our phones, hot-spots for laptops, and even mobile broadband.  Those were too slow or cumbersome.  We decided then we needed to build our own app to help us stay informed, save time and increase sales through better responsiveness.  We were familiar with the eBay Trading API, building in-house sales automation tools, and that's how ahTXT was born, out of necessity.  Through the process of turning a single-process widget into a scalable Web and mobile application, we also discovered the very large eBay Developer community and active support channels.

  Mansilla says he has a deluge of ideas for new eBay buyer and seller applications: 

 

We look forward to extending new features into ahTXT and creating new and innovative ways to help sellers be more effective on eBay.  And right as rain, there will be an eBay API call and developer forum to help get it done.  For now, we hope that all sellers will enjoy what ahTXT can do for them.  There's nothing like the feeling of sitting through a narcoleptic Power Point presentation at work and receiving an ahTXT on your cell that your forklift just sold for $8500.