Show HN: An Email-to-iMessage Gateway

1 points by ajaygoel ↗ HN
Mobile carriers have long supported email-to-SMS functionality, but in the United States, the big three (Verizon, T-Mobile, and AT&T) have deprecated these services. So a crop of commercial email-to-SMS services have sprung up, and one of my SaaS tools is exactly that.

But because SMS is so regulated now, and the 10DLC process is such a pain, and because I wanted to support international numbers, I embarked on making email-to-iMessage work, and I finally figured it out.

Try it now: Send an email to your-number@i.text.email.

If you have a non-U.S., non-Canadian number, be sure to include the country code.

U.S. Example: 2125551234@i.text.email U.K. Example: 447700900000@i.text.email India Example: 919876543210@i.text.email

Whatever you do, don't forget the "i"!

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Love the technical achievement but genuinely wonder why you would send a message to another kind of inbox?
It's for important alerts that you need to act on right away. Email inboxes are cluttered. An SMS or iMessage gets your attention right away.