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"The easiest way to send texts from your application"
tl;dr: Surge lets you text in minutes instead of months. Get started quickly with their embeddable UI components, or build a custom experience with their API and webhooks. Either way you'll be up and running in no time.
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Founded by Dennis Beatty & Brett Beatty
Dennis and Brett are brothers who spent a combined 11 years at Podium (W16) where they worked on communications infrastructure for small businesses. Brett was a senior engineer on the Phones product, and Dennis was a tech lead and senior engineer on the Messenger platform. They are excited to be building together, and to be taking on a problem that has caused so much frustration for developers like us.
The Problem
It used to be easy to start texting with Twilio and other APIs, but after recent carrier compliance changes, you have to jump through hoops and piece together fragmented documentation to get registered. Then you still have to wait 2-3 weeks for approval before you can actually send messages.
The big SMS APIs are all now focused on big companies paying them millions of dollars per year. Startups are left with a terrible user experience, unresponsive email support, and a feeling of helplessness when trying to add SMS functionality to their applications.
The Solution
By incorporating the new compliance standards into their product from the beginning, Surge lets developers send texts without having to become experts on the registration process first. They provide white glove onboarding to get you through carrier registration or toll-free verification, and they can do it in 1-2 business days (sometimes even same day) instead of the typical 2-3 weeks. And they can get you up and running with a trial in minutes.
Their intuitive REST API and webhooks are designed at a higher level of abstraction than other providers, which helps you simplify your application logic. And if you’d rather write as little code as possible, they have evn embeddable low-code UI components that make two-way texting a breeze to set up. On top of that, they offer responsive support to help you figure out any issues you have, no matter your size.
Learn More
🌐 Visit surgemsg.com to learn more.
✨ Interested? Register for an account here or book some time with the founders here.
🤝 If you’re currently using Twilio or another SMS API, reach out to the team here.
🌟 Check out Surge on Github
