Building a Privacy-First Phone Verification Architecture: Lessons from 6 Months in Production
When we started building VerifySMS in late 2025, the SMS verification reseller market was a graveyard. SMS-Activate had just shut down. Half the surviving providers were running on PHP 5.6 with hardcoded IPs. The 'modern' alternatives were Telegram b...
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