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Show HN: My 2-Hour Twilio App
- yaacovtp 17y agoYou should add an example url and specify users not include "http:// http:// because http://example.com http://example.com doesn't work.
- ed 17y agoFixed!
- jarsj 17y agoVery Cute. How are you keeping this free ? I am not familiar with Twilio pricing models, so your answer will educate me as well.
- dustingetz 17y agotwilio is pay-as-you-go, so this probably doesn't cost him more than 10 bucks a month.
- flog 17y agoThe problem is Twilio provides no way of billing end users. In this case it comes down to a micropayments problem (which still haven't been solved sufficiently). So you either have to charge up-front for a monthly service fee of a reasonable sum, or stick adverts everywhere which will hopefully cover your costs. It's a major flaw for the platform if you want to build a business off of it (I've been playing around with a per-monthly-fee service concept recently).
- cedsav 17y agoGood showcase. Are you paying for the SMS out of pocket? FYI Couldn't check https adress.
- zackattack 17y agomy contest idea was chatroulette for twilio. i wrote some php code but am too lazy to finish it and make a whole nice sheeny website.
- jasonlbaptiste 17y agoyoud be broke rather fast (if it took off)
- bemmu 17y agoI did that: http://www.happyfunline.com/ http://www.happyfunline.com/ Didn't know there was a contest though!
- dmor 17y agosorry, meant to reply to this thread - contest info is here: http://contests.twilio.com http://contests.twilio.com danielle @twilio
- qeorge 17y agoVery cool, worked as advertised. Two things: 1) It sent me a text letting me know the message had been received, and another with the result. The confirmation was nice, but since the messages came 2 seconds apart you could skip the first one and save 3 cents. 2) Would be nice if it followed 301 redirects.
- ericwaller 17y agoI agree about not needing the confirmation. I actually got the confirmation 5 seconds after the result.
- brianobush 17y agoSMS msgs are not guaranteed to be received in the same order sent.
- dmor 17y agoTwilio has an SMS app contest going on, and the deadline is midnight tonight http://blog.twilio.com/2010/02/resources-for-getting-started-with-twilio-sms.html http://blog.twilio.com/2010/02/resources-for-getting-started... -danielle @ Twilio
- winter_blue 17y agoAndroid please.
- Aloofpanda 17y agoPure uberness.
- Ravir 17y agopretty fast as well. Good Job!
- mayanks 17y agoI created a similar app, but primarily for India (using India local number). But it should work internationally also if you are willing to pay international SMS charges (don't know at what premium). I've hosted at appengine first to see the response http://sms2ping.appspot.com http://sms2ping.appspot.com Do let me know if someone tries it. BTW I get a response message free so am not paying to send out messages as response