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Although it's great to see Twilio branching out into this space, with their recent product releases they do seem to be losing focus on their original Twilio Voi

Although it's great to see Twilio branching out into this space, with their recent product releases they do seem to be losing focus on their original Twilio Voice product. Compared to other prodividers their prices really aren't conpetitive, but Twiml is so much more flexible and easier to use than VoiceXML. What to do? :/

RobSpectre 12y ago
Rob from Twilio here - appreciate the feedback. Have you had an opportunity to check out TaskRouter yet? We released it a few weeks ago - definitely my favorite recent product that works with Twilio Voice: https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter
- jgrowl 12y ago
  I saw this a while back and then forgot to go back and check it out. This looks interesting. Thanks for posting.
- tjbiddle 12y ago
  Interesting; however in my opinion I'd redesign that page. Having a lot of the information behind the interactive scrolling will cause it to be lost. Personally, and I know a lot of others, just scroll the page and look for the relevant information in paragraph form. Much easier to digest. This implementation forces me to stay on the page and is a bit frustrating.
  - ayushgta 12y ago
    I just posted the exact opposite of what you said :) Usually these "scroll hacks" are annoying. In this particular case the "flow" of calls is captured really well this way, IMHO.
    - tjbiddle 12y ago
      Heheh, to each their own :)
- ayushgta 12y ago
  Thats a pretty cool use of scroll to explain the product. Any details on how you guys built that? Is it completely custom or did you use some known JS/CSS lib/tricks?
  - bpartridge 12y ago
    Thanks for the kind words! We used a library called ScrollMagic (https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic) to handle the scroll listening and event triggering.
- duderific 12y ago
  FWIW the scrolling effect is all jittery (and pretty much unusable) in Safari.
tjkells 12y ago
Shameless plug here, but if you're interested in voice platforms and are growing weary of Twilio, I'm working on a new hosted telephony platform that uses embedded lua executing directly on our hosted servers. Check it out - https://developers.corvisa.com/ https://developers.corvisa.com/
- walterbell 12y ago
  Why did you choose Lua?
  - tjkells 12y ago
    It was designed to be embedded, has a very small footprint, is relatively fast ( we use luajit ), and has few opinions as a language. That said, there is nothing locking us in to lua permanently as we would just need to implement a small-ish set of language bindings and docker configs to execute the language du jour.

RobSpectre 12y ago

Rob from Twilio here - appreciate the feedback. Have you had an opportunity to check out TaskRouter yet? We released it a few weeks ago - definitely my favorite recent product that works with Twilio Voice: https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter https://www.twilio.com/taskrouter

jgrowl 12y ago
I saw this a while back and then forgot to go back and check it out. This looks interesting. Thanks for posting.
tjbiddle 12y ago
Interesting; however in my opinion I'd redesign that page. Having a lot of the information behind the interactive scrolling will cause it to be lost. Personally, and I know a lot of others, just scroll the page and look for the relevant information in paragraph form. Much easier to digest. This implementation forces me to stay on the page and is a bit frustrating.
- ayushgta 12y ago
  I just posted the exact opposite of what you said :) Usually these "scroll hacks" are annoying. In this particular case the "flow" of calls is captured really well this way, IMHO.
  - tjbiddle 12y ago
    Heheh, to each their own :)
ayushgta 12y ago
Thats a pretty cool use of scroll to explain the product. Any details on how you guys built that? Is it completely custom or did you use some known JS/CSS lib/tricks?
- bpartridge 12y ago
  Thanks for the kind words! We used a library called ScrollMagic (https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic https://github.com/janpaepke/ScrollMagic) to handle the scroll listening and event triggering.
duderific 12y ago
FWIW the scrolling effect is all jittery (and pretty much unusable) in Safari.

tjkells 12y ago

Shameless plug here, but if you're interested in voice platforms and are growing weary of Twilio, I'm working on a new hosted telephony platform that uses embedded lua executing directly on our hosted servers. Check it out - https://developers.corvisa.com/ https://developers.corvisa.com/

walterbell 12y ago
Why did you choose Lua?
- tjkells 12y ago
  It was designed to be embedded, has a very small footprint, is relatively fast ( we use luajit ), and has few opinions as a language. That said, there is nothing locking us in to lua permanently as we would just need to implement a small-ish set of language bindings and docker configs to execute the language du jour.