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Am I the only one that thinks someone is going to build a killer service on top of Twilio? Something to become a household name and be totally disruptive.

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Twilio has by far one of the best APIs out there. Most APIs hands you back data, Twilio does "stuff" so you do not have to.

Who else would you include in this category?

I think i might base my next startup entirely off of using some twilio functions after this price lowering and some research. It's a business app, but it would trickle down to interact with a lot of consumers.

I have been playing around with it for personal use and it has contributed more business ideas to the notebook than anything else I've done. With SMS I'd give better than even odds of one of them being my next business.

yup. the sms is a nice supplement. i really need to dig in deep and think of some use cases.

for the consumer side, i dont know if youve seen this chatroulette thing. might be fun for shits and giggles to do that with twilio. no clue how it could be sustainable though.

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