text.email

Hi, I’m Ajay, the founder of text.email but you probably know me as the founder of GMass. I built GMass in 2015 because I wanted to send email campaigns in Gmail and there was no way to do that. 400k+ users and 9 billion emails later, that problem is solved. text.email also came from a problem I was having without any good solution. Over the past few years, all the cell phone carriers have shut down their email-to-text gateways. I was using those for system alerts. When I went to find a replacement, there wasn’t one. The problem: For years (actually, for decades), you could send an email to something like 5551234567@vtext.com and it would arrive as a text. Sysadmins, DevOps teams, and technical founders like me used this for server alerts, cron job failures, backup notifications, and all other urgent messages. It worked with any tool that could send email and the text alerts cut through all the other clutter to get my attention immediately. Over the past few years, AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile all shut those gateways down because of a mix of spam, compliance issues, and no particular motivation to keep them alive. If you had alerts running through them, they just stopped. Why the alternatives are frustrating: There are some enterprise software options, but they’re priced for enterprise budgets and overkill for simple email-to-SMS alerts. There are services made for marketing texts or reminder alerts, but those aren’t the right replacement for the easy carrier gateways. (Send email, get text, that’s it.) You could build your own integration using APIs or no-code automations, but that’s time-consuming and yet another system that needs maintenance and can (and will) break. Plus, if you want to DIY it, you're now dealing with carrier registration and compliance paperwork or your texts won’t be delivered. What text.email does: text.email is a drop-in replacement for your old email-to-text alert system. Sign up, send your alerts to your personal text.email address, and they show up as SMS. I handle the carrier relationships and system maintenance so you don't have to. $9.95/month, 200 messages included, 5¢ per message after that. It's live right now. Works with any system that can send email, and you can try a free test on the website.