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It definitely has a lot of potential but nobody is going to re-assign a bunch of engineers to code up a solution to their immediate need for massive teleconfere
by tmpz22 7y ago
It definitely has a lot of potential but nobody is going to re-assign a bunch of engineers to code up a solution to their immediate need for massive teleconferencing capabilities today - as I imagine the timing of this launch is heavily influenced by the Coronaviris and current demand of these tools.
Where I think it does play in is that while Zoom is probably making a lot of sales right now, they are probably starting to regret their start-up friendly pricing model now that they have to fund large engineering efforts to keep up with demand. I imagine Zoom prices will go up while Twilio APIs will stay fairly consistent. There may be some cool start-ups that get built on top of this as well.
- dragonwriter 7y ago> It definitely has a lot of potential but nobody is going to re-assign a bunch of engineers to code up a solution to their immediate need for massive teleconferencing capabilities today No, but I bet a lot of places are (like the big enterprise shop I'm in) both scaling out their existing solutions for things like conferencing and VDI that were initially chosen to support more limited use and starting to consider long-term solutions to support more comprehensive at-need remote work.
- kwindla 7y agoWe're a startup that makes a video API that competes with Twilio. I can tell you that we're seeing a big increase in interest this week from both big companies and startups, across a big range of use cases. (Lots of telehealth and online education. Also lots of cool "distributed teams" experiments.)
- ausjke 7y agowhat's your website? and what's your advantage to twilio?