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Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by bszupnick »

agrinman wrote: post #35
IanCal wrote: post #33

Looks good, quick testing seems to suggest it works pretty smoothly. Small point, I'm not in the US so it'd be good to see the international SMS prices. There's no link I could see on the main page and the one after signing in doesn't resolve: https://dashboard.approveapi.com/full-sms-pricing edit - With customisation, can I put in links? Pictures?

Thanks! Oops, fixing the link now. We simply just pass along our at-cost price for sending an SMS via Twilio: https://www.twilio.com/sms/pricing/us . Re: customization, we're quickly adding more customizations like colors/images, etc. Currently you can add a logo for your company, and customize all the text on the approval (approve text/reject text/title/body/etc). You can also specify redirect on {approve, reject} l…

Hey! First of all, great work!

I hope it's okay if I give you a thought of mine. I built/am building a larger system but built-in is sending SMS's. I live in Israel, so Twilio works, but is an expensive option.

What I did is I have a sort of data access layer between the 'send SMS request' and many different API providers of the customers choosing. This lets them make a choice or, in my case, use a provider they already bought an SMS package with.

Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by timvdalen »

Really cool!

Some small feedback:

* The code in the "Test it in the Console" section is missing \'s, so you can't actually copy paste it as is now.

* The demo on the homepage suggests that there's some magic dynamic stuff happening in the email, which makes the actual email a bit of a letdown (though this is understandable)

Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by arethuza »

dsl wrote: post #27
chii wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Let's say there's a need to approve 10 things a week, each needing a 5 person approvals. That's $2 per month of cost. A developer costs $150k a year, and if it takes a month to develop, you could have the service for some 5000 months. In-house developers should focus on the business domain, not on custom building business processes.

Go talk to your vendor management team about getting a $2/mo contract signed. What does support look like because if this goes down at 2 AM, business is impacted. Legal needs to review because it is sending employee PII (emails, phone numbers, etc) to a third party, who now knows the individuals in critical "approval roles". Next hit up security and have them do an audit since this is going to be part of a security c…

Anywhere that dysfunctional is probably going to take 3 months and internally bill you a small fortune for the infrastructure to host the app.

Once had an internal infrastructure team estimate £70K for the infrastructure to host a single static HTML page.... :-)

Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by IanCal »

agrinman wrote: post #40
IanCal wrote: post #37

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Thanks! Bear in mind this is coming from a likely extremely low use user, but supporting links in the text that's sent may solve most problems other customisation would be used for when it comes to content (rather than look & feel). FWIW, my current use-case I'd like to put in here is that I've got some auto-generated art based on user inputs that I'll be shipping off. There's some stuff that could go wrong, so havin…

You can put links in the body of the request, most mail clients should render them without a problem

And there was me trying to be fancy adding in HTML. That works great, I'll integrate it all tonight, thanks :)

Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by 4kevinking »

timvdalen wrote: post #52

Really cool! Some small feedback: * The code in the "Test it in the Console" section is missing \'s, so you can't actually copy paste it as is now. * The demo on the homepage suggests that there's some magic dynamic stuff happening in the email, which makes the actual email a bit of a letdown (though this is understandable)

Thanks for the feedback! You can copy an escaped version by clicking the icon in the upper-right.

Re: Show HN: ApproveAPI – Real-Time user approvals via email, SMS, and push

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Post by hipjiveguy »

I think it looks good but needs examples of something other than just "yes/no" dialogs, or maybe all use cases are boiled down to that?

If not, you should include detailed examples for

"Send magic sign-in links, two-step verification, re-authenticate long-lived sessions, new device confirmations, verify identity for lost accounts or customer support."

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