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Termux has saved one of our projects literally tens of thousands of dollars in SMS fees from someone like Twilio. We have a few areas where non urgent SMS remi
by jonny383 6y ago
Termux has saved one of our projects literally tens of thousands of dollars in SMS fees from someone like Twilio.
We have a few areas where non urgent SMS reminders need to be sent to users. We literally just use a couple of cheap ($100) Android phones with termux on an unlimited message plan with a local provider (who approved us for commercial usage).
The actual process is a glorified bash script that pulls API jobs down with curl and then uses termux-sms to actually send the message.
- notsureaboutpg 6y agoI love this anecdote. Inventive, cost-effective, simple, understandable, and brilliant. What's not to love
- dspillett 6y agoThat sounds like it would be very useful for a personal project, but the docs for termux-sms state "Usage of this API is no longer allowed by Google and we had to disable it to prevent delisting of Termux:API application from the Google Play." - are you building your own version, or are there official builds off Play that include the feature?
- jonny383 6y agoWe're running builds from FDroid.
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- hiq 6y agoHow many SMS do you send daily? Do you have a regular plan with the local provider, or some specially negotiated one?
- jonny383 6y agoNot totally sure but easily > 1,000. We negotiated but not at a high level.
- anitil 6y agoWhat a fantastic idea!