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Hey everyone on Hacker News, We at Ably have just released Spaces, a product enabling developers to implement Collaborative interactions and work within their applications. Couplin…

We do not verify any of your personal information. We neither have access to that nor store any of it on our system. Our PhoneCheck product simply returns a true or false. Is your …

No, the check url created from the request is made by the mobile network operator assigned to that phone number. The mobile device makes the GET request to that check url over a ce…

Sorry, answering to your other questions. We are ever increasing coverage, but currently have quite a number of countries in Europe, most of India covered, Canada is covered. the U…

If you were, for example building a mobile application. tru.ID's PhoneCheck is superior to SMS in several ways. The first is, it provides a seamless UX. The user only has to enter …

The phone number is used to create the check url. This check url is returned from the mobile network operator that phone number and SIM card belong to. The device makes a GET reque…

If they're suffering from some form of burn-out or are in a bad way mentally right now, going to a smaller company can make it a lot worse. Smaller companies tend to expect you to …

I've seen others discuss burn-out. It does sound a bit like you're in this boat. I have been a developer for a similar amount of time as you and I am around the same age as you. Ye…

I recently wrote this tutorial to add an extra factor of authentication when logging in to an SSH server, using tru.ID's PhoneCheck, which uses your SIM card and an active data con…