I am in the USA! Although these days that exclamation point doesn't feel great...

I'm using an old Android phone (Pixel 2 from 2017), a 5$ a month unlimited SMS plan from Tello, and https://github.com/capcom6/android-sms-gateway. For bonus points (I wanted to roll my own security, route messages from different numbers to prod and ppe instances of my backend, and dedup messages) I built a little service in Go that acts as an intermediary between my backend and android-sms-gateway. I deploy this service to my android device using ADB, android-sms-gateway talks to it, and it talks to my backend. I also rooted the android device so I could disable battery management for all apps (don't do this if you want to walk around with the phone of course). It works pretty well!

I plan to open-source this eventually TM, but first I need to decouple my personal deployment infra from the bits useful to everyone else