I’m going to show you how to leverage Apple Shortcuts (among other tools), and get what most people would pay for for free in no time like a true indie hacker 🔥😎.

Why would I want that ?

Small businesses, associations or even individuals often need to notify people. Whether it’s for sending infos on a special sale happening next week, or to tell a group of people their next appointment, it’s a useful feature.

Why not use groups on your phone or like, any social messaging app ?

Groups are great, sure. But they don’t allow you to send a group of people personalized information.

Also, almost every social messaging app is now locked and APIs for automation are only available to verified businesses. This is somehow good, in a way but:

• You need to be a business (or your client)
• You need to have access to the business infos, taxes etc
• The process can take a few days to a few weeks, without any certainty to succeed
• This is not extremely well documented
• Also, this is targeting people with critical needs with time/money to invest

Here, a little bit of context

Right now, I am coding a small web app for a table soccer association I play in, so that the coach could take orders easily without having to bring his laptop and excel sheet.

Currently, he automates message building from an Excel sheet and sends them to recipients through Meta's Messenger.

The app I’m working on. Here’s the new order feature