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maxsun
Constructive criticism would be greatly appreciated! I'm relatively new to website development and put this together in a couple of days.

For an example usage, I used it to alert me when a slow program for finding prime numbers had finished.

raidan
Interesting concept, but an unauthenticated SMS gateway might not be a good idea. I hope there is throttling and other means of abuse prevention in place.
maxsun
Do you think a simple "stop sending me messages" would be enough for abuse prevention?
saghm
Is the source code for this available somewhere? I'm curious about how exactly you're sending the text messages, and I can't really tell anything from a quick glance at the binaries included in the zip.
maxsun
I'm using Twilio and a simple API I wrote for formatting the messages, both of which are connected to TermAlert.me.