Integrate SMS messaging in minutes with StdLib and MessageBird

Jenny Purt
MessageBird
Published in
2 min readMar 2, 2018
MessageBird x StdLib

How long does it take to build SMS messaging into your product? Just minutes thanks to our newest integration powered by StdLib.

At MessageBird we make communication as easy and seamless as it can possibly get. We love to work with partners who share, and enable, that same vision. We found one such partner in StdLib, a rapidly growing, San Francisco based startup that simplifies development by offering a serverless platform for API publishing. Our new StdLib integration provides developers with the tools to connect to our APIs quickly so that you can bring your MessageBird communication channels to life within minutes.

Simple integrations made possible

We want you to be able to access our products in your everyday workflow, be that in your Zendesk Support or your Google Drive. Our mission to simplify also extends to how we enable you to add MessageBird to your applications.

This is why we have joined Slack in partnering with StdLib. By utilising new “serverless” technology, the StdLib team removes many of the complex and time-consuming barriers that developers experience when building and deploying products. The result? The freedom to build and ship an application at supersonic speed, and add MessageBird’s SMS gateway by writing just a simple line of code.

Get the perks, not the headache

Crucially, by using StdLib, your team won’t need to build or manage their infrastructure — saving you both resource and maintenance overhead.

Let us give some examples. Currently your delivery notifications go out to customers via email. However, you would prefer a more instant channel of communication like SMS so that you can be sure customers will read it and can converse easily with you if needed.

To enable SMS within your app can involve layers of tooling and infrastructure management. However, when using the MessageBird API on StdLib, these layers are not needed, enabling a developer to simply follow these steps.

The same easy process will apply if you’d like to add two-factor authentication for instance, or any other form of customer communication.

Go ahead, give it a spin!

The MessageBird API on StdLib offers a quick way to incorporate SMS into your application. Its beautiful simplicity means you can also build and compose new APIs around it using StdLib, or simply plug the integration into an existing codebase. Everything is available as seamless, live, web-testable documentation.

So why not give it a try? We’re excited to see what you build!

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We’re are happy to be a partner within StdLib’s growing ecosystem and excited to see where this partnership takes both their platform and your product development!

You can read more about the MessageBird API on StdLib on Product Hunt and to get started, head over to StdLib’s handy How To guide here.

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