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More than a few. Ribbit is the big one, but not getting too much press these days. Voxeo is for IVRs, but Tropo.com is owned by Voxeo and has a very twilio-is

by runT1ME 16y ago

More than a few. Ribbit is the big one, but not getting too much press these days. Voxeo is for IVRs, but Tropo.com is owned by Voxeo and has a very twilio-ish API. There are a few more smaller players. And then there's the stealth project I'm working on with some people. Going to be quite disruptive...

hopeless 16y ago
I initially liked Twilio but I actually went with Tropo for a small project as the ability to upload a Ruby script kept everything easy. No need to learn another language or even use a RESTful api. Just write the script, upload and you're good to go.
- runT1ME 16y ago
  I believe Twilio has wrappers around their REST API in various languages, so you don't have to deal with any of the web stuff. However, you'd still have to host your own scripts, so if Tropo does your script hosting, there's that advantage. How do you communicate with the rest of your App though? Or does it exist entirely on the Tropo 'cloud'? Care to share what the app is if it's a public thing?
  - hopeless 16y ago
    Sure: http://github.com/hopeless/phone2post http://github.com/hopeless/phone2post (ring a number to record a podcast and publish that to Posterous) yeah, Tropo hosts the scripts for you so it meant that all the telephony stuff is handled by tropo.rb (on their servers) and this posts the mp3 to my sinatra app (phone2post.rb), which can limit itself to acting as a proxy for Posterous. I prefer the separation of concerns that this permitted me. For a more complicated app, I can definitely see the advantages of controlling the telephony side from the web app but in this case it wasn't necessary.
  - sjtgraham 16y ago
    I built a Twilio Ruby gem for a project, after not being happy with the official library (poor code quality and poor test coverage) http://github.com/stevegraham/twilio-rb http://github.com/stevegraham/twilio-rb
    - johns 16y ago
      We're working on all new libraries that will be MUCH better than the ones we have now. Should be out soon.
      - gspyrou 16y ago
        Do you plan to re-enable SMS delivery outside the US ?
        jeffiel 16y ago
        Hi gspyrou... yes, we'll do it and be able to fully support it like we do with our US SMS.
        gspyrou 16y ago
        Glad to hear that , because at the moment this is a show stopper for our project.
    - danielle17 16y ago
      Thank you!

by runT1ME 16y ago

hopeless 16y ago

I initially liked Twilio but I actually went with Tropo for a small project as the ability to upload a Ruby script kept everything easy. No need to learn another language or even use a RESTful api. Just write the script, upload and you're good to go.

runT1ME 16y ago
I believe Twilio has wrappers around their REST API in various languages, so you don't have to deal with any of the web stuff. However, you'd still have to host your own scripts, so if Tropo does your script hosting, there's that advantage. How do you communicate with the rest of your App though? Or does it exist entirely on the Tropo 'cloud'? Care to share what the app is if it's a public thing?
- hopeless 16y ago
  Sure: http://github.com/hopeless/phone2post http://github.com/hopeless/phone2post (ring a number to record a podcast and publish that to Posterous) yeah, Tropo hosts the scripts for you so it meant that all the telephony stuff is handled by tropo.rb (on their servers) and this posts the mp3 to my sinatra app (phone2post.rb), which can limit itself to acting as a proxy for Posterous. I prefer the separation of concerns that this permitted me. For a more complicated app, I can definitely see the advantages of controlling the telephony side from the web app but in this case it wasn't necessary.
- sjtgraham 16y ago
  I built a Twilio Ruby gem for a project, after not being happy with the official library (poor code quality and poor test coverage) http://github.com/stevegraham/twilio-rb http://github.com/stevegraham/twilio-rb
  - johns 16y ago
    We're working on all new libraries that will be MUCH better than the ones we have now. Should be out soon.
    - gspyrou 16y ago
      Do you plan to re-enable SMS delivery outside the US ?
      - jeffiel 16y ago
        Hi gspyrou... yes, we'll do it and be able to fully support it like we do with our US SMS.
        gspyrou 16y ago
        Glad to hear that , because at the moment this is a show stopper for our project.
  - danielle17 16y ago
    Thank you!