Ask HN: Is Plivo Dead?

2 points·techlover14159··7 comments

I tried to sign up but it failed.

I also sent them emails but there was no response.

Does anyone know if Plivo is dead? Are they signing up new customers?

Any suggested alternatives to Plivo? Twilio is too costly for our business.

Yes, there are a bunch of alternatives but it would help if you could let us know which services you're looking for. Twilio is comprised of MANY different services and there are other companies that are focused on specific verticals. But, assuming you're thinking mostly voice/sms, here are a few:

- Signalwire - Infobip - Sinch - Commio - intelepeer

They seem pretty alive based on Twitter activity and updates on their status page (https://status.plivo.com/).

Not sure about your signup issue, but their support team is probably running a little leaner this week between Christmas and New Year's.

I don't know about Plivo but if you're looking to do phone number verification we built a system for this https://www.ding.live/ with goal of improving conversion while reducing cost you can sign up there directly https://app.ding.live/sign-up.

I would be happy to understand more about what you're trying to solve don't hesitate to reach out to my email.

Great product. Hope you folks do well. Twilio sucks.

are you looking for messaging API services?

Telgorithm for 10dlc

yes it became expensive too.

there is postmark, messagebird, and mailersend for me.

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