I agree - personal projects and messing around with different tools is absolutely the best way to learn. I'm not sure how far along with your process you are, but you might wanna check out IFTTT - stands for If This Thing, Then That...it's a pretty handy tool that's kind of like an API of APIs, at least it's an easy to use glue that binds a bunch of other shit together. I've used it with twilio's API, which it's already configured for, to do stuff similar to what you're aiming to accomplish. It's especially easy if whatever phone number you're using is linked up to something like google voice. Worth checking out for sure. Zapier is also pretty good and in the same vein as that, as is make.com...though for a true no/low-code solution I'll always love IFTTT.