Comment on Are there any open source alternatives to Partiful?
jqubed@lemmy.world 7 months agoI would think something that sends text messages would be hard to implement as self hosted
Comment on Are there any open source alternatives to Partiful?
jqubed@lemmy.world 7 months agoI would think something that sends text messages would be hard to implement as self hosted
dan@upvote.au 7 months ago
Nah you just need to use a provider that has an SMS API like Vonage, Telnyx, Twilio, etc. Many of them support replies too, so you can have something like “Reply with Y to RSVP”
SMS isn’t too popular any more but it seems like a decent fit for a use case like this, as it effectively gives you nearly real-time push notifications without requiring everyone to install an app.