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It's a nice article, but seems like a deliberate cook-up by the twilio PR team. In light of the recently announced twilio-AWS partnership, the article seems eve
by mankash666 9y ago
It's a nice article, but seems like a deliberate cook-up by the twilio PR team. In light of the recently announced twilio-AWS partnership, the article seems even more concocted
- stuntkite 9y agoTrue! He probably had the child just because of the AWS kickbacks.
- mankash666 9y agoThat and your sycophancy here.
- stuntkite 9y agoI could care less about amazon or twillio. There literally just aren't easily accessible other buttons / SMS tools if you go look. Nothing about this is pandering to them, I just think it's a bit reductive to say this guy made this post as a promo. Alternate reality version of the post: Here's my kubernetes SIP/XMPP/WebRTC orchestration to do SMS and an arduino button I designed with STL files so you can 3D print it yourself. Everything is open source to toilet train your kid! I definitely used my time appropriately! EDIT: After re-review I realize this man could just not have a child at all. It could definitely be contrived and potty training probably doesn't need Amazon's weird button that orders more soap. I guess all I'm saying is that I could see myself trying out the same thing and the solution doesn't feel that contrived to me.
- dgouldin 9y agoAuthor here. I don't want to interrupt a good flame war, but I am just a normal dude who posted a tweet about a hack project and was asked by Twilio to write a post about it after the tweet got popular. I prefer not to post pictures of my kids publicly out of respect for their privacy, so I won't prove to you that I'm a dad, but some cursory twitter-stalking should provide sufficient evidence that I'm not a marketing shill for either AWS or Twilio.
- stuntkite 9y agoI dig it. I would try the same thing. Then again I’m a sycophant. :) Thanks for the write up!