During a meeting I was only half needed in, I ended up spinning up a small Android app for sending SMS to email over SMTP mostly with Gemini 3.
That worked for a while, then Gemini 3 Pro started going into full meltdown mode and taking Visual Studio Code down with it. At that point I switched to Codex 5.3 on Extra High and used that to finish the job.
The problem
I wanted a cheap way to get OTPs into email without paying for yet another subscription service.
The setup I had in mind was simple enough:
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stick an Android phone in the office
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let it receive SMS
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forward those messages to an email address over plain old SMTP
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send that into a Google Group so the right people can see it
That’s it.
No platform. No monthly fee. No credit card and lock-in.
SMS in, email out.
It’s open source.
Get it on Github.