Phone verification is NOT mandatory. However, Spike.sh is a simpler alternative to PagerDuty which means we make calls when there are important incidents. Not c

Phone verification is NOT mandatory. However, Spike.sh is a simpler alternative to PagerDuty which means we make calls when there are important incidents. Not calling might have serious consequences. Knowing that Phone call is important, we needed to verify it. However, making phone call to verify is NOT a good idea. We should have sent an SMS but getting an Alphanumeric sender ID took some time and we wanted to ship quickly.