Launch SMS service "on the knee"
I'll tell you about how we started the SMS mailing service with a budget of 1000r for 2 days and what came of it. Interesting?
In general, no SMS service was planned, I was looking for a free or the cheapest way to send SMS notifications for a small project focused on my city. After examining the top of Google at the request of “SMS mailing”, it became clear that there is nothing cheaper than 50 kopecks per SMS, and then I remembered the topic about Megaphone with the “Message Manager” service, I decided to try.
According to the description of the protocol with MSDN, a working “wrapper” was written in PHP. In conjunction with the option "Light SMS", the price of a text message was ~ 12-15 kopecks. taking into account the daily subscription fee for the option and payment for the "Message Manager" service. For third-party SMS services such a price could be obtained by buying from 1,000,000 SMS and more, the benefit is obvious. Among the shortcomings - you can not change the megaphone number to a normal name or website address, a small speed of sending a large number of messages, but we didn’t threaten large volumes.
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And why not “screw” the normal API and share with others?
To overcome the 500 sms / day limit, another 9 SIM cards with beautiful numbers were ordered, which ultimately gave a limit of 5000 sms / day. Dedicated server already had, it was necessary to buy a domain and make a website. The first working version was ready after 2 days and brought to the court of friends / acquaintances of the developers, many people liked the idea, someone suggested to start working on the project closely and bring it to the “industrial” level, talk about it in a habr. The goal was set - to recoup the cost of the server and SMS for their projects, set the price at 25 kopecks. and wrote an article .
There were no particular hopes for the article, and what a surprise it was in the morning to find out about 200 letters with an application for registration and 3 offers from “industrial” SMS centers with rather tasty tariffs! I accepted one of the proposals immediately, with two others negotiations were held, which also resulted in mutually beneficial cooperation. The joy was short-lived, after 2 weeks a notice of an unscheduled on-site inspection from Roskomnadzor came =] But this is a topic for a separate topic.
By the way, there is an idea to make something like a free gateway to a megaphone, based on the first developments. The user enters the data of his SIM card and receives the same API as on littlesms.ru . Do you need it for someone?
Problem
In general, no SMS service was planned, I was looking for a free or the cheapest way to send SMS notifications for a small project focused on my city. After examining the top of Google at the request of “SMS mailing”, it became clear that there is nothing cheaper than 50 kopecks per SMS, and then I remembered the topic about Megaphone with the “Message Manager” service, I decided to try.
Decision
According to the description of the protocol with MSDN, a working “wrapper” was written in PHP. In conjunction with the option "Light SMS", the price of a text message was ~ 12-15 kopecks. taking into account the daily subscription fee for the option and payment for the "Message Manager" service. For third-party SMS services such a price could be obtained by buying from 1,000,000 SMS and more, the benefit is obvious. Among the shortcomings - you can not change the megaphone number to a normal name or website address, a small speed of sending a large number of messages, but we didn’t threaten large volumes.
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Idea
And why not “screw” the normal API and share with others?
To overcome the 500 sms / day limit, another 9 SIM cards with beautiful numbers were ordered, which ultimately gave a limit of 5000 sms / day. Dedicated server already had, it was necessary to buy a domain and make a website. The first working version was ready after 2 days and brought to the court of friends / acquaintances of the developers, many people liked the idea, someone suggested to start working on the project closely and bring it to the “industrial” level, talk about it in a habr. The goal was set - to recoup the cost of the server and SMS for their projects, set the price at 25 kopecks. and wrote an article .
There were no particular hopes for the article, and what a surprise it was in the morning to find out about 200 letters with an application for registration and 3 offers from “industrial” SMS centers with rather tasty tariffs! I accepted one of the proposals immediately, with two others negotiations were held, which also resulted in mutually beneficial cooperation. The joy was short-lived, after 2 weeks a notice of an unscheduled on-site inspection from Roskomnadzor came =] But this is a topic for a separate topic.
By the way, there is an idea to make something like a free gateway to a megaphone, based on the first developments. The user enters the data of his SIM card and receives the same API as on littlesms.ru . Do you need it for someone?
Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/110898/
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