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Twilio also had a very powerful stock demo, which is (IMHO) the best demo since the Mother of All Demos. You've seen it if you've ever seen a Twilio demo. If
by patio11 10y ago
Twilio also had a very powerful stock demo, which is (IMHO) the best demo since the Mother of All Demos. You've seen it if you've ever seen a Twilio demo.
If you haven't: the presenter "live codes" a quick Twilio application in front of the audience, showing a server-side program which serves TwiML (Twilio markup) that does some trivia action, like "Say hiya to the caller." They then have one person call a number which connects them to the application. It says hiya to them.
People clap a little.
Then they ask the entire room to call the same app. It says hiya to everyone.
People clap a lot.
Then they say "We can get the list of numbers which just called our number from the API, in one line of code. Here, let me print some on the screen with the last four digits covered." Nervous laughter happens.
"And then I'm going to have it call all of you, and bridge you into a teleconference."
Presenter hits enter. Every phone in the room rings at once. Crowd goes wild.
I've seen this demo 15 times and it never ceases to be absolutely magical.
- johns 10y agoThe biggest crowd this was ever done with was NY Tech Meetup and it was bonkers: http://johndbritton.com/2010/08/04/live-coding-demo-at-new-york-tech-meetup/ http://johndbritton.com/2010/08/04/live-coding-demo-at-new-y... (too bad the video doesn't work...looking for another). Fred Wilson also wrote about that one: http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product.html http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2010/08/how-to-pitch-a-product.html
- CPLX 10y agoI saw this done in person at the NY Tech Meetup, probably around 2010 or so, and it was the most effective startup presentation I have ever seen.
- at-fates-hands 10y ago"...my birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
- crabasa 10y agoLawnmower Man?
- at-fates-hands 10y agoYes sir. Circa 1992 and seemed strangely appropriate.
- dcgoss 10y agoDoes anyone have a video of this?
- agildehaus 10y agohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S50bqKrTBkY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S50bqKrTBkY I remember Twilio giving this exact demo in 2009, though I can't find the video. There were audible gasps from the audience back then, the moment people realized their web development skills suddenly applied to telephony.
- caseysoftware 10y agoI did that demo 2-3 times per week for over two years. It was fun. The best time ever was when I presented to Bob Metcalfe's class and he heckled me: https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170301958727536640 https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170301958727536640 I got him back in my closing though: https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170304358905425920 https://twitter.com/CaseySoftware/status/170304358905425920
- azeirah 10y agoI'm sorry, but while impressive, it's nowhere near the mother of all demos. There's only one video out there that impressed me as much as the mother of all demos.