Need to send text messages to your customers programmatically, and have free text allowance on your phone tariff that you could be using? This service combines the two for you :)
Please note this is a weekend project*, so do not expect any reliable or scalable service! But it is a good experiment to see if it meets some people's needs
It's a two-fold process: A HTTP API that you use with your Google or GitHub account (this site), and an Android app that you run on your phone.
When you login you're taken to a simple dashboard where you can generate an API key-pair and download the Android app. You then set the app with these keys.
Once done, you can send messages using any HTTP client of your choice. Messages are delivered to your phone running the app and sent as SMS using your phone's native SMS capability and text credit (mostly free). As a bonus you also get delivery reports if your phone supports delivery feedback.
If you have a service that uses two-factor authentication via SMS, or you send text messages programmatically for any other purpose in a few hundreds or thousands a month then you could be saving money by using your text credits allowance on your phone instead of paying for an online SMS service.
The Android app is a downloadable with no proper Google Play developer signature. While I have been testing it myself and have not had issues with it, I cannot guarantee anything. Your phone's security may warn that the app is infected but that is just because it uses native SMS features without coming directly from Google Play Store. I mean no harm by any means but please use it at your own risk.
