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

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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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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?

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.

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

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

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