Similar to Twitter's Digits, which has been around for a while and seems quite popular. https://get.digits.com
Why is it free?
Re:Show HN: Phone verification at no cost
by kevindeasis on Sunday May 08, 2016 @11:48PM
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Twitter built fabric and it's free because they say "they want more developers using their platform" to help them with building apps
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
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Sorry, I don't recall businesses using account kit. However, it's pretty easy to do a basic setup.
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
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Sorry, I forgot there was a limit.Good catch though!
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.
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit/overview
What do you guys think?