AutoUssd

Hello Product Hunt & Hunters. My name is Kwame Opare Asiedu and I'm very excited to share with you AutoUssd, a platform for USSD automation for Android application. USSD (Unstructured Supplementary Service Data), also known as short codes or quick codes are still very much used to provide a wide range of services. They are usually in the format *XYZ# (e.g. *110#). In Ghana, where I'm from, telecom operators and many companies use USSD to provide services to customers. These include money transfer, airtime top-up, internet data purchase and banking services. The idea for AutoUssd was born when some of my friends and I decided to build a services aggregator app with APIs from some of the payment providers in our country. Looking at the charges we had to pay for using their APIs discouraged us because we didn't have any funding at the time. The idea then sparked, "Could we provide the services through USSD and have a front-facing app to users?". AutoUssd consists of a web platform and an Android SDK. The web platform allows you to setup a USSD session. A session is a sequence of steps a user would manually go through to complete a USSD transaction. As an example, to purchase airtime on Telecel Ghana, a user would manually do the following: 1. Dial *110# on the device and wait for a USSD prompt 2. Enter 3 on the prompt, press OK and wait for the next 3. Enter 1 on the prompt, press OK and wait 4. Enter the amount of airtime, press OK and wait 5. Enter the PIN, press OK and wait 6. Review the information, press OK to complete the purchase Our web platform allows you to set these steps up as a session. Then you or your app developer would integrate our SDK into your Android app, and instruct it to execute the said session. What the SDK does is automatically perform the steps the user would have done manually, but in a much faster way and keep your users in your app while it works. It's been steady progress, and we have about 100 developers who have tried and are using our product. We are excited to see what apps you can build with AutoUssd. Happy hunting!