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Siren
Siren is a Twilio frontend designed to make mass text message campaigns cheaper & more accessible for non-profit organizations.
Then he told of cunning Circe and her craft, and how he sailed to the chill house of Hades, to consult the ghost of the Theban prophet Teiresias, and how he saw his old comrades in arms, and his mother who bore him and brought him up when he was a child; how he then heard the wondrous singing of the Sirens, and went on to the wandering rocks and terrible Charybdis and to Scylla, whom no man had ever yet passed in safety
– The Odyssey, Book XXIII
About
Most online "mass texting" services, especially those preying on non-profits, use Twilio as their back-end and implement 10,000% and more surcharges, with many of these platforms charging hundreds of dollars a month.
Some small percentage of this surchage serves to cover their maintenance costs, but the vast majority of it is just to take advantage of well-meaning organizations trying to be effective in their outreach.
Siren is a free & open-source desktop frontend for Twilio, rather than a web service frontend. As such, there are no maintenance costs. The only cost to the user will be the small fees charged by the Twilio service itself (for most organizations, only a few dollars per month)
Usage
Siren requires a Twilio account (Account ID, Auth Token, and "from" phone number)
Building
Build instructions coming soon