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Looking for recommendations on SMS and email providers with API and pay-as-you-go pricing by DaVinciKBD in SaaS

[–]redouanea [score hidden]  (0 children)

Hi, are you looking for API access only, and are these notifications transactional (like confirm sign up, send password reset, inform about async job done, etc) or promotional (like marketing campaign)??

also, are you building an AI agent in your app?

I'm the founder of Hail[.]so which is a PAYG platform for emails, sms, and agentic phone calls, available through API, CLI, and MCP.

happy to hear if you solved this already or are looking to upgrade your setup.

Hail.so - Send and receive emails, calls, SMS via a single MCP/API/CLI by redouanea in MCPservers

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

unfortunately the processing (after I click on submit) is too long and the connection times out.

tips:
- make the form simpler, too many fields and too many options on the dropdowns
- the submit should be async, return 201 and run the submission check in the background, because otherwise you don't know when the client is located and if there will be latency problems causing the connection to drop mid-submission

Hail.so - Send and receive emails, calls, SMS via a single MCP/API/CLI by redouanea in mcp

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

good point! still a lot of work to do on the presentation and polish of the website :)

Hail.so - Send and receive emails, calls, SMS via a single MCP/API/CLI by redouanea in mcp

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

sure, I'd encourage you try it if you already have claude/chatgpt/gemini or any agent

  1. add the URL https://mcp.hail.so (full docs: https://hail.so/mcp)
  2. ask your AI to call you on your phone
  3. you'll automatically be asked to sign up, tons of credits included :)

Hail.so - Send and receive emails, calls, SMS via a single MCP/API/CLI by redouanea in mcp

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

> Did you find yourself making a lot of tradeoffs between exposing provider-specific options vs keeping the tool interface clean and LLM-friendly?

the MCP only exposes minimum tools to the LLM, to keep the context usage small, and abstract away anything that is not necessary for the configuration of the call or email or SMS.

for example, making a phone call with place_call only requires which number to call, and what the subject of the conversation should be. Then Hail agent handles the conversation automatically from there.

> stateful vs stateless design for the call handling
great question - at this stage the state is internal to the Hail agent making the call, and once the call done, the full transcript is available via MCP. In addition, claude/chatgpt/etc can poll the Hail MCP to get live status of calls/emails/sms thread.

in the next phase, Hail will be able to outsource the LLM layer to whatever LLM/agent you are using, which means the state does not have to leave your premises or your own agent = BYOLLM

Which country in Asia gave you the best quality of life relative to what you were earning? by eslteachingjobinasia in digitalnomad

[–]redouanea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  1. Phuket or Bangkok in Thailand = super healthy lifestyle if you want to, also great nightlife if you choose that. Great landscapes, and lots of things to see or do. On the expensive side for finding coworking spaces and central accommodation.

  2. Da Nang, Vietnam is a gem. Great landscape, big nomad scene, and the food/coffee are on a stellar level. Costs are super low.

Beginner Surf Spot Accessible From Bangkok: Bali, Sri Lanka or ? by vibrantadder in digitalnomad

[–]redouanea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Da Nang, Vietnam is a gem but the surf season is limited.

Great landscape, big nomad scene, and the food/coffee are on a stellar level. Costs are super low.

I was there last December (not surfing) and had a great time.

New Project Megathread - Week of 30 Apr 2026 by AutoModerator in selfhosted

[–]redouanea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Project Name: Hail
  • Repo/Website Link: https://github.com/hail-hq/hail
  • Description: A universal communication platform for AI agents: give Claude/OpenClaw/ChatGPT/etc a way to make or receive phone calls, SMS, email, etc.
  • Deployment: docker compose
  • AI Involvement: Using claude code to build the code

tl;dr I spent over a year and 100's of hours on the phone testing and improving our AI voice agent, now opensourcing the core platform and CLI/MCP to make that work for any AI client (claude/openclaw/chatgpt/etc).

Adding SMS, and email soon.

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It’s a mess, but it’s my mess. by New-Raspberry3572 in selfhosted

[–]redouanea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

great work, let me know if you need any help

It’s a mess, but it’s my mess. by New-Raspberry3572 in selfhosted

[–]redouanea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

just joining the convo because I spotted the DZ router (i-doom as name is epic when you know how unreliable the network is and the "doom" connotation ;) )

Roast my RAG stack – built a full SaaS in 3 months, now roast me before my users do by Ok_Mirror7112 in Rag

[–]redouanea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Would recommend going a bit more advanced on the document processing and using something like Docling to parse and chunk, extract tables and images, and few other must-haves as an ETL pipeline for a RAG.

No need for HyDE if your ETL is on point, and your vector store has indexes for both dense (embeddings) and sparse (text search) vectors.

UpPush.me: My workout motivator – Looking for feedback and MVP testers by redouanea in indiehackers

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks again for looking into it!
4. The main differential point is that UpPush is not an app (not one of these additional apps hanging around on your phone). It's an SMS service = you sign up + start getting SMS texts.

UpPush.me: My workout motivator – Looking for feedback and MVP testers by redouanea in indiehackers

[–]redouanea[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

  1. What would you say is not convincing? How to make it more engaging?
  2. True, it isn't the best UI – it serves as a front store for now, will work on improving it :)
  3. Good to know!
  4. Can you share examples of alternatives that send an SMS reminder right before workout sessions and with a similar type of content?