[kevindeasis]

Hi, there's a free phone verification using facebook. It's account kit.

https://developers.facebook.com/docs/accountkit/overview

What do you guys think?

[chambo622]

Similar to Twitter's Digits, which has been around for a while and seems quite popular. https://get.digits.com

[everfree]

Why is it free?

[kevindeasis]

Twitter built fabric and it's free because they say "they want more developers using their platform" to help them with building apps

[h43k3r]

This seems interesting. Do you know of any app currently using this. I would like to quickly try it out before the hassle of setting it up myself.

[kevindeasis]

Sorry, I don't recall businesses using account kit. However, it's pretty easy to do a basic setup.

[jaxondu]

Its free up to 100K SMS per month. Can find any pricing detail from Facebook.

[kevindeasis]

Sorry, I forgot there was a limit.Good catch though!

[k_]

As great at this probably is, I don't think adding yet another dependency to facebook is a good thing.

I'm getting tired of services that only accept facebook users. Having a facebook login or any other facebook service requiring the user to be a facebook user is not bad in itself (and can be pretty useful), but it should _always_ have an alternative.

That's why I think projects like Dial2Verify Twilio are a great thing. They're still not perfect though, as some said here on HN.

[siva7891]

Account Kit and Facebook Login are not linked. You can implement account kit independently.