Android-sms-gateway Alternatives

android-sms-gateway reviews and mentions

• Don't Build Multi-Agents
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 1 Sep 2025

  I am in the USA! Although these days that exclamation point doesn't feel great...

  I'm using an old Android phone (Pixel 2 from 2017), a 5$ a month unlimited SMS plan from Tello, and https://github.com/capcom6/android-sms-gateway. For bonus points (I wanted to roll my own security, route messages from different numbers to prod and ppe instances of my backend, and dedup messages) I built a little service in Go that acts as an intermediary between my backend and android-sms-gateway. I deploy this service to my android device using ADB, android-sms-gateway talks to it, and it talks to my backend. I also rooted the android device so I could disable battery management for all apps (don't do this if you want to walk around with the phone of course). It works pretty well!

  I plan to open-source this eventually TM, but first I need to decouple my personal deployment infra from the bits useful to everyone else

• Show HN: Text an LLM at And61493035885
  1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Mar 2025

  I put together this basic service running on an Android phone with a cheap prepaid SIM that supports "unlimited SMS to 20 countries". I considered alternatives like Twilio and Telnyx, but at ~5c per SMS sent or received in Australia, the SMS costs would rack up faster than the LLM costs! Of course, this comes at the risk the carrier disconnects my service.

  I explain it more in the blog post, but the service is just a basic node server that sends the LLM calls to DeepInfra running Llama 3.1 8B. The node server runs in Termux on the phone receiving the SMS, and is relayed to the node server by SMS Gateway for Android[1].

  Tip: you can text "CLEAR" to clear all your past messages from the database so you can start a new conversation.

  [1] https://github.com/capcom6/android-sms-gateway/