TextBelt
Free API for outgoing SMS (by typpo)
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Kandan is an Open Source Alternative to HipChat (by kandanapp)

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TextBelt | Kandan | |
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15 | - | |
3,180 | 2,700 | |
1.4% | -0.1% | |
1.8 | 0.0 | |
over 1 year ago | 9 months ago | |
JavaScript | JavaScript | |
MIT License | GNU Affero General Public License v3.0 |
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TextBelt
Posts with mentions or reviews of TextBelt.
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and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-21.
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Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down
> I find these kinds notifications to provide more false positives than correctly detecting downtime
There are services like Textbelt that leave the trigger mechanisms all up to you and your local tools:
https://textbelt.com/
- Send and receive SMS with a clean, simple API
- Send Text Messages via Email
- API to send SMS messages
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Automated texting using google voice?
I doubt you'll find a free SMS texter. Textbelt seems to be low-hassle and open-source. There's an option for standing up your own server to make it "free". I'd look into email options as well. It looks like most carriers support some kind of email-to-text path.
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Ways to code notifications into your Python scripts?
I use paid service textbelt.com (also www.twilio.com is there), they have standard plugin for many languages.
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Elixir and SMS tutorial
# Path: lib/sms_demo/sms_handler.ex defmodule SmsDemo.SmsHandler do use GenServer def send_message(to_phone, message) do GenServer.cast(SmsDemo.SmsHandler, {:send, {to_phone, message}}) end def receive_message(from_phone, message) do GenServer.cast(SmsDemo.SmsHandler, {:receive, {from_phone, message}}) end def start_link(_) do GenServer.start_link(__MODULE__, [], name: __MODULE__) end def init([]) do {:ok, %{}} end def handle_cast({:send, {phone, message}}, state) do textbelt_url = "https://textbelt.com/text" textbelt_key = Application.get_env(:sms_demo, :textbelt_key) replyWebhookUrl = Application.get_env(:sms_demo, :webhook_url) params = %{ phone: phone, message: message, key: textbelt_key, replyWebhookUrl: replyWebhookUrl } HTTPoison.post(textbelt_url, Poison.encode!(params), [{"Content-type", "application/json"}]) {:noreply, state} end def handle_cast({:receive, {phone, message}}, state) do # TODO: Do something with the message {:noreply, state} end end
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Using TextBelt SMS with Elixir
I was recently introduced to the SMS service TextBelt which is a pre-pay and simplified service to provide the ability to send and receive SMS messages from code.
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Does SAAS arbitrage even work?
I was looking into some side project ideas and stumbled upon one called textbelt where the guy uses something like twilio in the backend and sell 10x per SMS. It is kinda arbitrage for SaaS products. This guy is legit and also has 5 to 10K $ per month stripe verified indiehackers project. More over he doesn’t even promote his product and moved on. Yet this is so popular enough to bring in 5k a month. Do you guys think its possible to reinvent something like this and promote to make a worthwhile side project ?
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Free SMS API
You can look into this: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt
Kandan
Posts with mentions or reviews of Kandan.
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We haven't tracked posts mentioning Kandan yet.
Tracking mentions began in Dec 2020.
What are some alternatives?
When comparing TextBelt and Kandan you can also consider the following projects:
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Mattermost - Mattermost is an open source platform for secure collaboration across the entire software development lifecycle..

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