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How is this good for me as a customer of Twilio if they've decided to now compete with me? A competitor to Appointment Reminder? There were plenty to start wi
by patio11 14y ago
How is this good for me as a customer of Twilio if they've decided to now compete with me?
A competitor to Appointment Reminder? There were plenty to start with, one more doesn't worry me. That competitor is AT&T? Crikey, that's actually good news. It's like someone designed an enormously scalable, ridiculously efficient machine for sending pissed people with money to Google to search for me.
If Twilio bizdev guys are listening, the only other thing on my Christmas list is convincing the Department of Education to award a contract to SAIC to develop free bingo card creation software and put it on the desktop of every teacher in America. (That would 10x my sales overnight.)
- wikwocket 14y agoGood reminder that small warm-blooded mammals shouldn't necessarily fear gigantic dinosaurs. And that competition can be a good thing, if only for market validation. I can totally see how a large company providing a general/basic service could be a big help to someone who provides a specialized, customized service in that space. It's free advertising for the space as a whole... you could almost view it as stage 1 of your funnel. But be careful what you wish for with the bingo card software... I have a friend at SAIC, and if that contract came through, we might have to take up your challenge. ;)
- rmc 14y agoNot only the "general/basic" vs. "specialized customized", but I presume patio11 is betting on the software coming out of a megacorp to be rubbish and hard to use, and rarely able to adapt to changes from customers.