Show HN: Sendfreesms.online (a two hour side project)

4 points by Beggars 9y ago ↗ HN

I set myself a challenge to create a simple web app idea in a couple of hours and so http://sendfreesms.online was born. It allows you to send free SMS messages, it's crude, but works. Not sure if people even text message anymore.

All in all this took me a little over 2 hours to get working. It's an Aurelia/Node.js application using Twilio and MySQL for logging.

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rerx 9y ago ↗

I couldn't get it to work (Chrome 55, Germany, using the same numbers for to and from, or leaving the from field blank).

Beggars 9y ago ↗

Thanks for the heads up, sorry it didn't work. I'll test it out and see if I can see the problem.

RepressedEmu 9y ago ↗

I built something very very similar at Whispe.rs except it took me a bit longer than 2 hours :P

I built it first using Twilio but didn't think the ad revenue would pay for the messages so I switched it to using SMS-email gateways.

Great job! What did you use for the captcha?

Beggars 9y ago ↗

The captcha is just using Google's Recaptcha service. Yeah, I don't think the ad revenue will pay for the cost, but I set myself a challenge and managed to get something working quickly.

It's built using Aurelia for the client-side and Node.js for the backend using Restify to create a quick REST API for handling the requests.