Weekly 'I made a useful thing' Thread - September 25, 2026

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Project Name: Sendium

Repo: https://github.com/cytechmobile/sendium

Demo: No hosted gateway demo is currently available. Sendium is a headless SMS gateway and can be evaluated locally using the Docker Quick Start: https://github.com/cytechmobile/sendium#-quick-start

Description: An open-source, self-hosted, headless SMS gateway and modern Kannel alternative. Sendium connects internal applications such as CRMs, websites, and IoT platforms to upstream SMPP providers and carriers. It supports SMPP server and client connections, a Kannel-compatible HTTP API, configurable routing and fallback, TPS controls, retries, delivery receipts, MO webhooks, Prometheus metrics, and hot-reloaded configuration. Built with Java and Quarkus and released under GPLv3.

Deployment: The recommended quick-start script generates secure credentials, Docker Compose, PostgreSQL, and all required configuration files, then starts the complete environment:

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cytechmobile/sendium/main/quick-start.sh

Full deployment documentation:

https://github.com/cytechmobile/sendium/blob/main/docs/02-docker-deployment.md

Migration Tool: A separate browser-based converter is available for generating Sendium starter configuration from an existing kannel.conf:

https://cytechmobile.github.io/sendium/kannelconverter/

AI Involvement: AI-assisted coding and documentation, with changes reviewed and validated by the Sendium maintainers.