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Twilio has an incredible API

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Re: Twilio has an incredible API

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It's nice indeed, however it doesn't work in EU which makes it worthless for most things we do @ Observu :) Any idea if that will ever be solved?

I guess Twilio has UK numbers in beta right now. Maybe I could clone the site and throw it up on another Heroku instance and use one of those.

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What about starting everyone off with a balance of say $5-10, and running it down after the first call with an option to top up via PayPal once over?

Trouble is, without accounts, how can I tell who the originator of a conference is? My goal is to keep the UX as brutally simple as possible. I'm really against having payments get in the way of using the product in ANY way since I feel that this is a problem that needs to be insanely simple and easy since conference calls are always a pain in the ass for some reason.

Twilio provides call logs in .csv through the API.

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Very nice UX ! brilliant on the iPhone / iPad

We have developed http://939.co.il although not with such a slick interface :-) we also offer access numbers in more than 25 countries.and Skype access.

It's built on top of foneAPI.com which is in private beta right now. If there are any developers who would like to try it we would love to talk to you guys.

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Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha

Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. This is the least hard problem in startup-dom, because Twilio lets you solve Serious Problems for Serious Businesses and they are ecstatic to pay money for them. (P.S. In case it isn't obvious, don't charge based on what you're paying for Twilio. Underlying phone service: cheap. Application logic: expensive.) There are a lot of one-week Twilio applications worth 5 or 6 figures t…

Not asking you to write a business book or anything, but can you give an example of the sort of thing you're thinking of? (Is callinwith.us an example?) I looked at Twilio because I thought it sounded really cool, but in the end I couldn't think of many Twilio applications that 1) have a clear revenue model, and 2) aren't already features of Goldmine or similar that anyone who wants it would already have.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#66

Nice work on callinwith.us, have been looking for a sleek solution for conference calls lately. Assuming you built it with Twilio, how are you handling the random access codes?

Codes are just randomly generated then stored in a postresql db for later reference. If there is a collision, it adds a digit.
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