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Hey -- one of the creators here, thanks for your comment. We definitely don't want to price out companies from using our service so we are listening carefully.

I also want to mention that we do support volume pricing, so if you want to send lots of approvals per month we can work together on a price that makes sense for your use case -- just reach out to us at support@approveapi.com.

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You are clearly baking in your Twilio/Mailgun costs in to the per-approval price. Why not just let me provide an API key and charge $5/mo for the service itself?

On average, a boring approval wastes maybe 1 minute between the requester waiting and the approver opening whatever system they use for approval. Over 100 approvals, this is 100 minutes wasted.

At $100 per hour for a professional, you could save around $159 by using this service.

Seems like the pricing works out to me. You just have to figure out how much time is wasted in traditional approval and how much time this approval method saves the customers.

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