TextBelt VS Kandan

TextBelt

• Show HN: I built a tool that texts you if your server goes down
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Apr 2025

  > 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
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 29 Sep 2023
• Send Text Messages via Email
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 11 Jul 2023
• API to send SMS messages
  1 project | /r/iOSProgramming | 25 Feb 2023
• Automated texting using google voice?
  1 project | /r/learnpython | 29 Jan 2023

  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.

• Ways to code notifications into your Python scripts?
  2 projects | /r/algotrading | 21 Dec 2022

  I use paid service textbelt.com (also www.twilio.com is there), they have standard plugin for many languages.

• Elixir and SMS tutorial
  2 projects | dev.to | 5 Dec 2022

  # 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

• Using TextBelt SMS with Elixir
  1 project | dev.to | 4 Dec 2022

  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.

• Does SAAS arbitrage even work?
  1 project | /r/SideProject | 26 Oct 2022

  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 ?

• Free SMS API
  2 projects | /r/devops | 26 Jul 2022

  You can look into this: https://github.com/typpo/textbelt

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