Howto add SMS functionality to your web app

Am I the only one considering it a bit dodgy that the headline of this submission sounds like this was eg a blog post describing how to add SMS but instead you get to a commercial site?<p>I mean, I'd have nothing against this if the submitter had asked for feedback/review or simply had used a more honest title. :/

Wow! I really like this!<p>It seems to be a simple, flexible version of TextMarks, without all the bullshit.<p>[edit] Yeah, you should publish the prices on the page. It appears to be 5¢ per SMS, or $25 for 500.

Is this US only? What is the pricing?<p>The landing page or at least the "learn more" page should have answered these questions.

As other commenters noted, they are providing something that a lot of other companies provide, such as the company I work for, Ez Texting.<p>Here's my plug: we can deliver to the US and Canada, our prices start @ 5 cents an SMS and go down from there, we've got a memorable short code (313131) and we already support a lot of people through our API. <a href="http://www.eztexting.com/api.html" rel="nofollow">http://www.eztexting.com/api.html</a>

I knew you were from Pittsburgh as soon as I saw your name!<p>Interesting product, but your "How it works" page would be more comprehensible with a diagram or a flow chart.<p>This would be an excellent product if you need a short code, but $0.05 is a little steep for me. I'd rather use an email address (text@gumband.com for example) to send my SMS messages.

Also, more about how it works: <a href="http://www.gumband.com/learnmore.php" rel="nofollow">http://www.gumband.com/learnmore.php</a>

With Gumband, your users send to the shared shortcode with your keyword, but if you want a dedicated/international incoming SMS number, I've been happy user of <a href="http://csoft.co.uk/" rel="nofollow">http://csoft.co.uk/</a> for about 2 years now.

Why do SMS web service prices vary so much? How does this service do a better job than Penny SMS who charge $0.01/message and provide return messages via email? <a href="https://www.pennysms.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.pennysms.com/</a>

Apart from a nicer website, how is this service any different from Mobivity, or half a dozen others? Maybe it's substantially cheaper but I can't seem to find any pricing information.

What if someone decides to spam you? Is there any way to enact daily limits or to block numbers?

Too bad they don't list any real pricing information. Also, what about non-US customers?

Definitely cool but it would get expensive quickly.

aren't there email addresses for every common vendor?<p>yournumber@att.net<p>or something like that?