Comments on: Twilio Raises Venture Funding, Looks to Expand Cloud-Based Phone Services

By: Twilio

Twilio — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 06:42:13 +0000

Hi Gregory, Vivek, Kris and folks at Pyrameda.

Today we publicly announced that we’re now accepting requests to join the Twilio International Outbound early developer access and we’d love to have all of you on board.

http://blog.twilio.com/2009/08/get-early-developer-access-to-twilio-international-outbound.html

Thanks for writing, reading, and supporting Twilio – hope to see you around soon!

By: Pyrameda

Pyrameda — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 14:09:31 +0000

Our company is very excited about Twilio’s approach to telephony and see big potential in the idea. An article which I recently read shows users how to create a click-to-call button on their website so that customers can speak to an agent simply by clicking and entering their call back phone number. You can see the full article here: http://thepursuitofalife.com/click-to-call-example-for-twilio/comment-page-1/#comment-1267

In any event, this is probably one of the most exciting new technologies on the internet right now, and I am very much looking forward to seeing which direction Twilio’s management will take the company.

By: Kris Subramanian

Kris Subramanian — Fri, 01 May 2009 14:52:11 +0000

I am the CTO of boston based hummingbytes Inc. – a mobile and voice apps. solutions company. Out of the many offerings, we have rolled out Customer Service products using Voice and SMS mechanism. Sending important updates, alerts (which can be scheduled) via Voice or SMS, SMS based customer service, Mobile coupons are the first set of products to hit the market this summer.

Other enterprise integrations can be done using our APIs. Applications like IVR, Voice solutions, Mobile campaigns etc can be easily built. B2B integrations are very easy with the rich API set.

By: Vivek

Vivek — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 12:36:58 +0000

I integrated Twilio into the early stage startup HintCafe and am writing to share my experience.

At HintCafe, we built some interesting features like leaving a voice message for a user and calling another user without knowing their number. See http://hintcafe.com/faq or my example profile at http://hintcafe.com/user/vivek

We built the following on HintCafe using Twilio

a) Phone validation – users can add their phone number to the account. The phone number is validated using something similar to Twilio add-a-caller-id process. User is given a 4 digit validation code on hintcafe.com and user enters that code when hintcafe.com makes an outgoing call to the phone using Twilio make call api. The validation code is captured using Gather.

b) Leave a voice message – The user calls hintcafe.com and then user is asked to record the message for the chosen user. This is done using Record verb. The message receiver is sent a flash player linked to mp3 of their recording on hintcafe.com inbox. The recording mp3 is fetched using recordingurl provided by Twilio.

c) Call Forward – Users of hintcafe.com can talk to each other without sharing their phone number. The caller calls Hintcafe.com incoming number hosted on Twilio. HintCafe uses a dial to call the other user using callerID of HintCafe to make the dial. This way, both users can talk to each other without sharing their phone numbers.

My last week developing the solution with Twilio has been a very positive experience. The Twilio team on help@twilio.com and here on forums is very prompt and concise in reply. The overall product is well designed with the REST APIs and is simple to user. And ofcourse, the pricing model is just fantastic which makes it capable for early stage startups like mine to build interesting features without considerable upfront cost.