SMS Postcards for Grandparents

What I built

With the quarantine/lock-down in place my parents have been really missing seeing their granddaughters. I built this as a way to send them pictures in the mail with the least amount of resistance. No apps to download, no software, use any cellphone... just send a text message to a Twilio number and a postcard will be mailed the next day!

Category Submission:

COVID-19 Communications and Interesting Integrations

Link to Code

https://github.com/mattdini/sms-postcard

How I built it (what's the stack? did I run into issues or discover something new along the way?)

Built with:

• API Gateway
• Lambdas
• S3
• Secrets Manager
• Twilio!
• https://lob.com/

Some fun things learned along the way:

• Hangouts + Google Fi will resize images to 100x100, not great for postcards!
• https://github.com/keithrozario/Klayers is a life saver!