SMS and email appointment reminders on your own Twilio account — no SaaS markup.
Freelancers expense a dozen subscriptions — proposals, contracts, invoices, time tracking — against irregular income. Owning the tools outright removes a whole line of fixed costs.
The tool this job usually means renting is SimpleTexting, at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Remindly does the job for a one-time $34 — running on infrastructure you control.
Manual entry or CSV import with per-row validation and error reporting.
For freelancers, appointments pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Any offset like 24h, 2h or 15min, by SMS or email, with per-rule templates and merge fields.
For freelancers, reminder rules pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
Clients reply C to confirm or R to reschedule via the Twilio inbound webhook, with confirmed / pending / no-reply status.
For freelancers, two-way confirm pays off between gigs, against irregular income — and it's covered by the same one-time $34, not metered per month.
One payment of $34 gets you the packaged Windows installer wired up, or clone the MIT source at github.com/bensblueprints/appointment-reminder-sms-mvp and run it free.
Drop your own Account SID, Auth Token and from-number into Settings, and add SMTP if you want email reminders.
Load appointments manually or by CSV, define reminder offsets, and let the scheduler send while clients reply C or R.
Remindly is $34, once. SimpleTexting at $29+/mo — roughly $348 a year, every year. Remindly costs about one month of SimpleTexting once — after year one you pay only the SMS fees you were already going to pay anyway.
Remindly costs about one month of SimpleTexting once — after year one you pay only the SMS fees you were already going to pay anyway. Remindly costs $34 once; SimpleTexting charges $29+/mo — about $348 a year. For freelancers, that fixed cost is the whole point: the tool is a one-time line item, not a monthly one.
Yes — Remindly is MIT-licensed at github.com/bensblueprints/appointment-reminder-sms-mvp. The $34 buys the packaged Windows installer with everything wired up; building from source is free.
Yes, but only the real carrier fee. Twilio charges ~$0.0079 per SMS on your own account and Remindly never marks it up — you skip the SaaS fee stacked on top, not the carrier cost.