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Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

#11
Forgive a bit of ignorance on this, but it seems cool and I want some clarifying questions.

If I want to send SMS to a bunch of people, can I hook this into a self-hosted Asterisk server or something? Or does this have its own SMS gateway? Or am I forced to use a third party dealio like Twilio?

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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post #11

Forgive a bit of ignorance on this, but it seems cool and I want some clarifying questions. If I want to send SMS to a bunch of people, can I hook this into a self-hosted Asterisk server or something? Or does this have its own SMS gateway? Or am I forced to use a third party dealio like Twilio?

We have support for twilio natively since that's one of the popular options, but we also support webhooks as a channel, so if your Asterisk server has an HTTP endpoint that can trigger messages it would be compatible.

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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Kudos on making this, especially after the huge price hike Customer.io just dropped on their customers.

Thanks yes - we've seen quite a few inbound customers to our SaaS as a result of this!

We are trying to find a pricing model that can work for consumer facing apps/sites and companies, as well as B2B!

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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Awesome! What's the process for self-hosting?

If you're interested in an enterprise plan, we help you set up and scale self-hosting as part of the support contract for as long as you need. We have one-click infra-as-code to get you set up on multiple cloud providers with minimal devops intervention.

If you want to self host for free, the easiest way would be to run our docker compose on a compute instance-we're in the process of updating our docs for self hosting and I can email you with more info if you'd like.

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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post #11

Forgive a bit of ignorance on this, but it seems cool and I want some clarifying questions. If I want to send SMS to a bunch of people, can I hook this into a self-hosted Asterisk server or something? Or does this have its own SMS gateway? Or am I forced to use a third party dealio like Twilio?

Maybe I misunderstand, but how would you send SMS via an Asterisk server? Wouldn't you need an SMS gateway in the end anyway?

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

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post #18
post #11

Forgive a bit of ignorance on this, but it seems cool and I want some clarifying questions. If I want to send SMS to a bunch of people, can I hook this into a self-hosted Asterisk server or something? Or does this have its own SMS gateway? Or am I forced to use a third party dealio like Twilio?

Maybe I misunderstand, but how would you send SMS via an Asterisk server? Wouldn't you need an SMS gateway in the end anyway?

Yes, sorry, you would need some kind of TCP gateway or a SIM card.

Re: Show HN: Laudspeaker – Open-source mobile push, SMS and email automation

#20
Open sourcing something like this feels like marketing more than anything else.

They suffer from the same "cold start" problem that social apps do. For the project to thrive, there needs to be an existing fanbase to improve and support it.

Is what makes Wordpress great the fact that it's open source? No. It's the community of builders that surround it.

Would anyone realistically be willing to spin this stack up in their existing company (and sign up for maintaining it)?

I expect you'll get a few git clones from engineers to poke around to see how it was built, out of curiosity, but not much more.

Of course the natural response would be "who cares? They opened the source so you can if you want to!"

That's fair. I guess I just get stuck on the "why"

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