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Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by kevindeasis on Sunday May 08, 2016 @12:51AM (#11652669)
Hi, there's a free phone verification using facebook. It's account kit.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit/overview

What do you guys think?

Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by chambo622 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @02:10AM (#11652862)
Similar to Twitter's Digits, which has been around for a while and seems quite popular. https://get.digits.com
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by everfree on Sunday May 08, 2016 @02:41PM (#11655161)
Why is it free?
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by kevindeasis on Sunday May 08, 2016 @11:48PM (#11657488)
Twitter built fabric and it's free because they say "they want more developers using their platform" to help them with building apps
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by h43k3r on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:21AM (#11652746)
This seems interesting. Do you know of any app currently using this. I would like to quickly try it out before the hassle of setting it up myself.
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by kevindeasis on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:33AM (#11652768)
Sorry, I don't recall businesses using account kit. However, it's pretty easy to do a basic setup.
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by jaxondu on Sunday May 08, 2016 @01:33AM (#11652766)
Its free up to 100K SMS per month. Can find any pricing detail from Facebook.
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by kevindeasis on Sunday May 08, 2016 @11:10AM (#11654340)
Sorry, I forgot there was a limit.Good catch though!
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by k_ on Sunday May 08, 2016 @08:00AM (#11653662)
As great at this probably is, I don't think adding yet another dependency to facebook is a good thing.

I'm getting tired of services that only accept facebook users. Having a facebook login or any other facebook service requiring the user to be a facebook user is not bad in itself (and can be pretty useful), but it should _always_ have an alternative.

That's why I think projects like Dial2Verify Twilio are a great thing. They're still not perfect though, as some said here on HN.

Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost by siva7891 on Sunday May 08, 2016 @10:15AM (#11654125)
Account Kit and Facebook Login are not linked. You can implement account kit independently.