What is simpletext?

simpletext is a stupidly simple service to handle SMS messages and OTP verification. And it's free - no credit card to sign up, and you get 100 messages for free every day.

simpletext removes the bloat and barriers to entry necessary to send sms messages, perfect for a simple project or a quick hackathon, but scalable to handle production traffic. To achieve this, we did three main things:

1. Simplified API and User Experience

We timed ourselves speedruninng setup for simpletext - we got an sms message sent in under 1 minute in a NextJS application (opens in a new tab) and sent in 23 seconds with cURL. Point being, it's fast and easy to get started. When developing simpletext, we foucsed heavily on the developer experience, making a bloatless UI to just get started - emails, credit card, spam or promotions. We just give talented developers the tools to built awesome things.

In doing this, we've made the API as simple as possible, boiling down the process to three api calls - sendSMS(), requestOTP(), and verifyOTP(). That's it.

2. Type-Safe Package for the Client

We've also created a type-safe package to interact with the simpletext API, @simpletext/client, but users may also interact with the API directly through cURL, HTTP clients, or other languages' built-in request modules. This way, we let developers be developers and use our tools the way they want.

3. Open-Sourced Libraries

We've open-sourced our @simpletext/client package to allow contributions and improvements from the community, and we further welcome contributions to the docs (opens in a new tab) and examples (opens in a new tab).