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.

  • jqubed@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

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

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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.