Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your email address

Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by suhith on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:42PM (#14598428)

These days many services ask for a phone number for 2FA just to sign up, it'd be great to have a tool that gave you multiple numbers on demand so you don't have to give out your phone number.

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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by Psilidae on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:53PM (#14598519)

I've been considering just buying a few prepaid SIM cards just for services like this. I'd love some throwaway phone number/ SMS-forwarding services, but most get blacklisted within a few months because spammers immediately jump all over them.

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Re:Show HN: NBox – Sign up anywhere without giving your emai... by callalex on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @09:19PM (#14599926)

You could use Twilio for this without writing any software, but phone numbers are a much more finite resource and are therefore much more expensive.

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