Ask HN: a service that needs SMS

Posted by swah on Sunday April 25, 2010 @06:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.

I wanted to create a service that needs send SMS to people (Brazil). I know that Google Agenda, for example, has integration with some cellphone companies, so they provide these APIs to Google. But how could I, a no one with no BigCo behind me, do something like this?

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by hunterjrj on Sunday April 25, 2010 @07:16PM (#1293708)

Take a look at CellTrust:

http://www.celltrust.com/Products/SDKAPI/CellTrust-API-Overv...

I don't know if they have support for sending SMS to Brazil, but we did have success with them here in Canada.

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by cmelbye on Sunday April 25, 2010 @07:18PM (#1293710)

Twilio is great for that stuff. http://twilio.com/

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by jsgoecke on Monday April 26, 2010 @12:27PM (#1295214)

Give http://tropo.com a try. It also does voice, IM and Twitter along with SMS.

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by swah on Monday April 26, 2010 @05:24PM (#1296150)

I wish there was some service that would allow me to send SMS for free, and they could add a 30-char ad along...

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by vlbeta on Thursday April 29, 2010 @01:25PM (#1305213)

http://www.zeepmobile.com/ and http://www.textmarks.com/

Although I'm not sure if they support Brazilian carriers.

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by adrianwaj on Sunday April 25, 2010 @07:26PM (#1293719)

http://www.clickatell.com/

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Re:Ask HN: a service that needs SMS by swah on Sunday April 25, 2010 @10:38PM (#1293977)

Surprisingly, this allows sending SMS to all operators in Brazil, and just tested on mine. I wonder, how they did it? Did they have to contact each operator and make a deal, or I'm missing something?

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