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Ask YC: SMS Application, any help?
I am building an application that will need to send and receive text messages. i will like to know the best way to do that? i am thinking along the lines of an SMS server like Kannel.
- RobGR 18y agoCould you make it less "push", so that when someone sent a special message to http://www.textmarks.com/ http://www.textmarks.com/ service, then textmark was configured to fetch the info from your URL, and respond ? Are you sure that in West Africa receiving text messages will be free, and that you will be able to do international text messages ?
- rantfoil 18y agoShortcodes can be quite costly. Some people use http://www.textmarks.com/ http://www.textmarks.com/ instead, which is a tradeoff on usability for being free.
- Hates_ 18y agoThere are loads of services that bulk sell SMSs. You just fire off some XML to their servers and they'll send the message and then when you receive one, they just fire some XML back to you.
- hafeez-bana 18y agoWe use a number of SMS providers. By far the easiest to integrate with is clickatell. J-mango does SMS as well - both income and outgoing. Check out the video at http://www.j-mango.com http://www.j-mango.com
- raju 18y agoI posted a similar question a while ago, and had a good response... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119395 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=119395