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Re:Ask HN: Have you launched your project this year? How are... by Emc2fma on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:52PM (#13411973)
So currently, we only support numbers within the US and Canada. While there are plans to expand to other countries, it isn't a priority at the moment.

For people living in other countries, we recommend that they purchase a US phone number (which can be done for as little as $1/month through something like iPlum).

And I'm assuming you mean through an app or something else?

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Re:Ask HN: Have you launched your project this year? How are... by Philomath on Tuesday January 17, 2017 @10:48AM (#13418470)
I guess creating an app for this might be too much trouble to make a customer stick to the service, it's kind of an entry barrier, but could it be possible to make it using WhatsApp's calls for example?
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Re:Ask HN: Have you launched your project this year? How are... by Emc2fma on Tuesday January 24, 2017 @02:12PM (#13474485)
Exactly - plus, daily notifications get blurred out in the users mind over time. Most people don't want to download yet another app as well.

WhatsApp unfortunately doesn't provide an API - otherwise, that would be a great idea.

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