GroupMe.com : TechCrunch Disrupt NY HackDay Creation Launches

Related: TechCrunch Disrupt SF, and Women and Tech.

GroupMe.com is the home of a very cool platform that allows you to form a mobile text group. While that may not seem like much at first, when you consider the vast number of service and retail organization that can make use of it, then its vast potential becomes apparent. (Yep, this blogger uses it.)

GroupMe was born at the 2010 TechCrunch Disrupt NY HackDay, and immediately caught fire. The New York based company that grew around the platform scored an $850,000 angel round of funding in August. It's really a super simple application.

You just got to the website GroupMe.com and punch in your mobile number. The system sets up a group phone number and asks for your name for the group. It will then send a confirmation text. All you have to do is add the people you want to be in your group.

Once done, you can set up an instant conference call, such that the GroupMe system calls everyone in your group.

Or, if you're, say, an airline like United Airlines, you can send a group text to everyone in the UAL group that gives important travel information.

It's a very interesting and exciting platform. Just wonder if Michael Arrington gets a cut of the angel money?