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Sms gateway as cheap alternative for text message

Automate your Sending sms from your app

Providers

Nexmo Twilio Smm gateway

Summary

Context
- The problem
- The solution
What is a Sms gateway ?
Next up
Wrap up

Context

I knew a lot of entrepreneurs in my country (Senegal) use their personnal phone number to send business related sms. Since in the past, I built something similar for a customer I thought it would be a great idea to cheer and support the florishing businesses that I liked already. Besides, sharing is caring so I'll work you through the development of this solution.

The problem

manual labour
not scalable (sustainable) with customer base. Think a hundred, a thousand, ten of thousands [insert:meme overload]

The solution

How it works:

select recipient phone number
input your text
send
use web technologies to send bulk sms
- sms gateway
Features:
- send sms from the computer
- support multiple recipients
- support csv file with custom fields [insert:name, phone_number, order_count]

What is a Sms gateway ?

Src

Dependencies

papaparse: parse csv file to matrice (array of array)
axios: for http(s) request
sweetalert2: because we like candies! [insert:meme no. more seriously]
sweetalert2: better modal dialog
node-sass, sass-loader to compile scss because I like nesting

Next up

allow user to save template message for later use

Wrap up

I had a lot of fun building this simple yet useful sms buddy You can play with it, fork it and use it as much as you like I don't mind. Code is available at https://github.com/bcdbuddy/sms-buddy. Using tech for the greater good