OpenSMS
One API for SMS across Africa
Details
- External ID
- 1260117
- Source
- PH
- Company
- —
- Product
- OpenSMS
- Website domain
- producthunt.com
- Launched
- Oct. 1, 2026
- Cohort
- —
- Upvotes
- 1
- Upvotes percentile
- 0.34585152838427946
- Tags
- API
- Fetched at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
- Updated at
- Oct. 1, 2026, 5:01 p.m.
Description
OpenSMS is a prepaid SMS platform for businesses and developers in Africa. Send transactional messages, one-time passcodes and bulk campaigns through one API and a web app using local carrier routes. Prepare integrations in a free sandbox, complete business verification for live messaging, and top up a wallet in local currency.
Enrichment
- Theme
- messaging and niche communication tools
- Vertical
- Horizontal
- Function
- Communication
- Audience
- Developer
- AI stance
- Not AI
- Project type
- Commercial product
- Normalized one-liner
- unified sms api for african telecom networks
- Manually corrected
- False
Could you build this?
No Building an African SMS gateway requires direct wholesale telecom carrier agreements (SMPP connections), regulatory compliance in multiple countries, and specialized telecommunications infrastructure.
What it would actually take: A functional SMS platform requires establishing direct SMPP binds with mobile network operators (MTN, Airtel, Safaricom, etc.) or Tier 1 aggregators across various African jurisdictions. The architecture demands high-throughput telecom switching nodes (e.g., using Kannel or specialized Erlang/Go gateways) to handle routing, DLR (delivery report) tracking, and carrier-level number portability. Deep telecom regulatory compliance, anti-spam licensing, and significant carrier deposits are strictly mandatory.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one — 61 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #25 of 62 (itself plus its competitors, highest first — normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 190 days after the earliest competitor.
- Connect Media SMS API · ph · 2026-09-30 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- sms-api · github · 2026-09-12 · 16 upvotes · similarity 0.51
- MessageLab · ph · 2026-09-15 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Comma Compliance Android Archiver · ph · 2026-09-10 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Mamonty · ph · 2026-09-23 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- GB SMS Gateway · ph · 2026-10-01 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- ConnecTMee · ph · 2026-09-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.41
- Jaza · ph · 2026-09-14 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.40
Other launches for this product
- No other launches for this product.