we-never-message-anyone

Summary

Aakalan never sends a message, an invite or a reminder on somebody's behalf. It opens the user's own messaging app with the text filled in, and they press send.

Why it matters

The sign-in screen makes this promise in as many words — "we never read your contacts without asking, and we never sell them" — and every outbound path in the product has to keep it. There is also no infrastructure to break it with: the app carries no messaging SDK, no token storage and no backend to send from.

Implications

• Invite, remind, ask-for-UPI and the settlement notice all build a string in src/lib/messages.ts and hand it to sms: or the share sheet.
• iOS separates an SMS body with & and Android with ?. Getting it wrong does not error — it opens the messaging app empty, which reads as the feature simply not working.
• There are no push notifications anywhere in the product.
• Copy is written in the USER's voice, not the app's, and always signed: an unsigned text from an unknown number is indistinguishable from spam.

Related

• settling-is-immediate — why telling them is the primary action
• settle-settled
• sign-in — where the promise is made

Sources

• src/lib/messages.ts
• src/services/invite.ts