Show HN: Convey – personalized SMS marketing and followups directly from Slack https://bit.ly/2wbPBvp

Show HN: Convey – personalized SMS marketing and followups directly from Slack Hi HN! We're Kunal and Parthi. We're super excited to launch Convey (https://bit.ly/2UYlsYD), our latest attempt to do everything directly from Slack ;) Convey lets you do personalized SMS marketing and followups directly from Slack. Customer communication is getting increasingly personal and businesses want to create an authentic relationship with their users. We're helping e-commerce brands, retail stores, and other online businesses engage with their customers through a format that feels personal - like a friend texting you. SMS is ubiquitous, more widely read than email and feels more intimate. Here's what you can do with Convey: ️1. Send out personalized SMS campaigns to your customers. Trigger them via API based on user behavior on your site or in your app. Shopify and other marketing integrations in the works 2. Respond with a templated message that still sounds human. We use language models to understand user messages and queue up the best template response so you can edit if necessary and hit send 3. Collaborate with your team on responses in Slack - a very extensive Slack integration makes it possible to initiate and respond to messages while giving your entire team visibility We're eager to hear your feedback! April 3, 2020 at 03:21PM

Show HN: Game of Life on GPU in 10 lines https://bit.ly/2X57sz3

Show HN: Game of Life on GPU in 10 lines https://bit.ly/3dOCDo9 April 3, 2020 at 11:14AM

Show HN: Gatsby and ReasonML Starter Blog https://bit.ly/2UDrTBp

Show HN: Gatsby and ReasonML Starter Blog https://bit.ly/3bIRxdG April 3, 2020 at 10:03AM

Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably https://bit.ly/3aEHgzn

Show HN: Draw and extract tables from PDF reliably https://bit.ly/2UZmxiR April 3, 2020 at 08:50AM

Launch HN: Test https://bit.ly/3dOKz8Z

Launch HN: Test This is dang testing something. Please carry on. Edit: bah! you guys upvoted it and ruined my test. I think I can cancel that out. April 3, 2020 at 09:08AM

Show HN: faasd 0.8.1 – lightweight Serverless with containerd and CNI https://bit.ly/39y6CgU

Show HN: faasd 0.8.1 – lightweight Serverless with containerd and CNI https://bit.ly/2Xc9Rbr April 3, 2020 at 08:47AM

Twitter makes fun of Amanda Black’s new house |

With everything going on in the world right now, it’s easy to get despondent but one celebrity decided to make sure they used April 1st to make people laugh. Award-winning musician Amanda Black took to Twitter to announce that she had bought a “new house” on Wednesday. However, the house in question has been posted […]

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“No money for now” – Davido replies followers asking him to do giveaway

Nigerian singer and superstar, Davido has turned down a fan who tried to pressurize him into doing ‘giveaway’ on Twitter. The fan commented under Davido’s tweet, urging the singer to “do giveaway” The award winning singer politely replied the fan that there are no shows in sight, hence his source of income is limited for […]

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Zoleka Mandela remembers Winnie Madikizela-Mandela |

The death of struggle icon Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, political and non-governmental organisations paid tribute to the former anti-apartheid activist, lauding her commitment to the liberation struggle. Affectionately known as the “mother of the nation,” Madikizela-Mandela died aged 81 at Milpark Hospital in Johannesburg after a long illness. The ANC Women’s League acknowledged the role she played […]

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Adekunle Gold shares amazing workout video on Instagram

Singer, Adekunle Kosoko, popularly known as Adekunle Gold, has shared a workout video on Instagram. The “Before you wake up” crooner posted the video of him doing some bicep curls on the platform on Thursday. He captioned the post, “The real #dontrush follow me on Tiktok @adekunlegold” See post below;

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Telecomm companies are taking Nigerians on a ride with bad internet service – Vector

Nigerian musician, Vector has blasted telecommunication operators for providing poor internet service despite taking peoples money to offer quality connection. The rapper who was obviously disappointed in the quality of service provided, took to social media to call them out, stating that at a time like this where internet is needed, it is still poor. […]

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Somizi to launch cooking and motivational speaking YouTube channels |

Somizi will be opening two YouTube channels – one will focus on cooking while the other one will focus on motivational talks. Accompanying the announcement was a video from Somgaga giving a brief description of his channel which is in the works. “There’s going to be so much fun throughout the entire journey of me […]

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Show HN: I made a schedule of when borders will open again after pandemics https://bit.ly/2wPjMJe

Show HN: I made a schedule of when borders will open again after pandemics https://bit.ly/344T9fg April 3, 2020 at 08:00AM

Show HN: Froyo Party – The Anti-Lonely App https://bit.ly/39BTZ4w

Show HN: Froyo Party – The Anti-Lonely App https://bit.ly/2UW3Yw1 April 3, 2020 at 05:48AM

Show HN: News Without Coronavirus https://bit.ly/2R7YOfp

Show HN: News Without Coronavirus https://bit.ly/2UW3XIt April 3, 2020 at 05:39AM

Show HN: Automate with Google Sheets and MIT App Inventor https://bit.ly/3bMulv9

Show HN: Automate with Google Sheets and MIT App Inventor https://youtu.be/PReU4ITp37I April 3, 2020 at 05:06AM

Show HN: 2FA, a one-file 2-factor authentication app written in Python https://bit.ly/39DsJ5u

Show HN: 2FA, a one-file 2-factor authentication app written in Python https://bit.ly/2yveN0E April 3, 2020 at 04:52AM

Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America https://bit.ly/2xLm0Jn

Launch HN: Belvo (YC W20) – Financial Data API Platform for Latin America Hey HN, Pablo and Oriol here, founders of Belvo (https://bit.ly/39z2soV), a financial data API platform for Latin America. Think Plaid for Latam. We were previously building a payments startup (something like Venmo) in Europe and when expanding to Latam realised how hard it is to connect to legacy infrastructure, whether it is to access data, validate bank accounts or process payments. We’ve also been working in fintech in Europe for the past few years (at companies like Revolut) and one of us comes from a traditional financial services background. We’ve seen the impact open banking technology, which has become common in Europe, has had on providing end-users with more transparent and fair offerings and on lowering barriers for fintech developers to get started and launch innovative new products. But this technology hasn't made it into Latam yet, so we saw a big opportunity and started Belvo to solve that. Belvo allows end-users to connect their financial data to new fintech apps across Latam. We’ve seen a number of relevant use cases for our product so far. For personal and business finance apps, we allow users to connect bank accounts and view them in one place through account consolidation. This allows developers to provide better spending analytics and proactive recommendations. Business-oriented finance apps can reduce manual errors and costs via automated accounting by syncing bank feeds and reconciling transactions on a recurring basis. We’ve also seen that digital-first banks and wallets can use us to build in-house personal finance managers and authenticate the owner of any bank account - thus streamlining their know-your-client (KYC) processes. We also enable credit providers to build better and faster experiences for borrowers. Instead of having to build onboarding flows or asking users to self-report or upload their information, data can be synced via our API. Fraud risk can also be reduced and scoring improved by accessing more granular and broad data. Currently we allow end-users to connect banks and bank-like sources to fintech apps. That being said, our goal is to aggregate all relevant financial data sources, not just banks. This is particularly important in Latam, where 50% of the population is unbanked. In this context, sources such as service providers (think prepaid phone, prepaid TV, electricity bills), digital wallets and gig-economy apps are relevant for both users and fintech apps. These are typically paid in cash and don’t go through a bank statement or debit card but all have portals where consumption and spend can be analysed and categorised. Becoming the “source of truth” for all this data is pretty tricky as all data sources have different formats, ways to access, granularity, etc. and that’s something we’re looking to solve. The process of connecting accounts to fintech apps is built on the premise of full and strong user consent to data sharing. Security / privacy is something we’ve been focusing on since day 1. Our engineering, infrastructure and data teams have past experience in working on products with similar complexities. We went live in January in Mexico, our first market. We will soon be expanding to Colombia and Brazil and working on some additional products and sources to complement the core data API. Belvo has been built by developers, for developers and our API documentation is public. The way to get setup is directly via our developer portal (https://bit.ly/39zq0dd). Upon signup, you’ll be able to retrieve your API keys for both our Sandbox and Production environments. Oriol and I would be delighted to get your thoughts and feedback on what we’re building. Fire away HN! April 2, 2020 at 03:14PM

Show HN: A list of discounted SaaS products which you can use to fight Covid-19 https://bit.ly/3bNi0qu

Show HN: A list of discounted SaaS products which you can use to fight Covid-19 https://bit.ly/2JAxFxz April 2, 2020 at 03:07PM

Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency https://bit.ly/39Blc7e

Show HN: A UDP to TCP proxy server for sending HTTP requests with zero latency https://bit.ly/3aEhKdn April 2, 2020 at 02:23PM