Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024

Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by gordalina on Tuesday December 10, 2024 @07:36PM (#42383377)

I've built a SMS to Slack which enables two-way SMS messaging from your Slack channels.

I had an annoying use case where when trying to login to a shared work account, the 2FA code was being sent to a colleague's phone number. Now being able to receive that code in Slack solved the problem.

Customers now use it for their own customer support. End users really like SMS as a messaging platform, nobody wants to send an email or talk to a chatbot.

It uses Elixir, Fly, GCP, Stripe, and a couple carriers.

https://smstoslack.com

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by t1tech on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @03:10AM (#42385831)

Cool project! Which carriers are you using and how do you get around things like A2P 10DLC?

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by DanielHB on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @04:35AM (#42386229)

In Brazil WhatsApp for Business completely ate this space. SMS is dying (granted, a very slow death) so milk it while you can :)

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Re:Ask HN: Those making $500/month on side projects in 2024 ... by salomonk_mur on Wednesday December 11, 2024 @08:20PM (#42395113)

I really recommend adding WhatsApp as an option besides SMS

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