I built an automated prank call system called Insultron a few years ago. You simply send a text message to 765-444-4442 and it will prank call your chosen frien

I built an automated prank call system called Insultron a few years ago. You simply send a text message to 765-444-4442 and it will prank call your chosen friend with some randomly generated ridiculous insults. At one point a few years ago I used it on Steve Wozniak since he was a big fan of prank calling back in the day (pro tip for contacting Woz: his personal phone number is in his autobiography, but in order to get through you have to have a caller ID that’s in the same area code.) It used to cost me under five dollars a month using Twilio but its usage has taken off dramatically (completely organically) and now it cost me closer to $50 a month but I keep paying it because it’s fun. I also built and ran an implementation of Cat Facts several years ago until that was shut down by my provider because people are abusing it too much.