A lot of my friends use partiful for event planning. Is there any open source or self hosted alternative to it? I checked alternative to and couldn’t find anything, even alternative to evite or the like seems lacking.

  • Grunt4019@lemm.eeOP
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    7 months ago

    It makes a nice event page where you invite everyone by phone number. It then texts everyone with the details and asks for RSVPs. It then automatically follows up with everyone to get RSVPs and sends out automatic reminders to all the guests a week before and a day before etc.

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      7 months ago

      I would think something that sends text messages would be hard to implement as self hosted

      • dan@upvote.au
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        7 months ago

        Nah you just need to use a provider that has an SMS API like Vonage, Telnyx, Twilio, etc. Many of them support replies too, so you can have something like “Reply with Y to RSVP”

        SMS isn’t too popular any more but it seems like a decent fit for a use case like this, as it effectively gives you nearly real-time push notifications without requiring everyone to install an app.