Victor

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Spent some time in Lagos recently, staying at different hotels, and one thing kept bothering me.

Why am I still filling out check-in forms with pen and paper in 2026?

Some hotels even had to take pictures of my ID with a staff member’s phone. 😭

Surely, this is a problem worth solving?

Imagine walking into a hotel, scanning a QR code, verifying your identity, making payment, and completing your check-in right from your phone.

No paperwork. No unnecessary delays.

Maybe products like this already exist, but 3 out of the 4 hotels I stayed at had nothing of the sort.

Makes me wonder: is this a technology adoption problem, or is there a genuine gap in the Nigerian hospitality market?

Because this feels like something we should have solved by now.

Lot of work has been done, yet still a lot to do.

Let me briefly explain why SMS has taken longer than expected at SendByte.

We don’t want to simply resell SMS through existing providers or aggregators.

Our ambition is to go deeper, pursue the necessary licensing, build and operate our own SMS infrastructure, and have greater control over delivery quality, reliability, speed, and pricing.

It’s a more difficult and expensive route, but we believe it’s the right long-term decision.

We’re building SendByte for the long game, not just to ship another SMS API.

And yes, SMS is coming. 🚀