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I'm moving forward with Twilio. I don't like that there's no easy way to respond to messages from their dashboard, and it sounds like I'll have to wait a few days before using it which kinda throws a wrench in my plans, but otherwise it's easy to use. Thanks for the recs!

I like baking /goodbread and building apps on web3 protocols. DevRel @ ENS Labs. gregskril.com

I think the Twilio competitor to arise is the one who figures out how to streamline A2P compliance

building privy.io, always in pursuit of ice cream, love /urbanism

What’s A2P compliance and why is it hard?

Building https://srcbook.com // creator of the https://blockchainsmokers.xyz

Not sure it's a super "hard" problem, but Twilio very clearly hasn't found a way to make it feel like a natural piece of their models/abstractions (which were already pretty messy). Relationship between an account, subaccounts, campaigns, etc and A2P verification is both 1:1 (my simple org should really just get A2P verified once and apply to everything I communicate), and many:many (my subaccounts are separate businesses and campaigns are separate business units and should all get A2P verified independently).

Some regulation to prevent SMS spam. Slow because it requires human review (idk who from). Turns out Twilio is letting me send texts right now even though the application is pending though. I guess it might not matter with low enough volume 🤷🏻‍♂️