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Good for them! I love their service and use it on GoatAttack.com

Holy crap. This is the best $0.89 I've ever spent. I'd like to nominate GoatAttack.com as an IPO candidate. Are you listening, Goldman?

Off topic. GoatAttack is the coolest service of all time.

I love goats. Out of curiosity, would you be willing to share how well goat attack packs have been selling?

Well I've goat to tell you, we send a lot of goats! To give you an idea, since we launched April 2015, we've sent over 2 million messages.

You need to make this stuff international, I was about to throw money at you to goat my enemies.

Wow nice. This is kind of random, but can I ask how you got/licensed the photos of goats?

Your company is the new Unicorn. It's so great.

Would you say they're the Greatest Of All Time? ;)

Just used this, Breaker05 is probably going to do better from the Twilio IPO than the Twilio employees ... :P

I get an "Invalid Attack Plan" error when trying this out :(

shit! I'll figure it out real quick. What plan did you choose?

The 30 one.

It's fixed. Sorry we wrote the code for this site drunk in a night.

As one does.

It's all good. Less all good, though, is that I managed to complete an order for the 13 one targetting my coworker and his phone has remained silent since I placed the order.

EDIT: I tried the allegedly fixed 30 goat order as well to no avail.

EDIT 2: Actually it did work but my coworker's phone is on vibrate and he didn't react as loudly as I had hoped :(

Haha this is great! I use Twilio for TheSimplePostcard.com

I'd like to be on the team working on printing GIFs please.

You would use a lenticular printer for that right? Animated GIFs!

Competitors are already ahead of the game:

http://gifpop.io/pages/how-it-works

I don't like the fact that I have to give permission for future charges to use Paypal. It should be an option.

My friend has been getting spam texts ever since I goat attacked them. Are you selling phone numbers or leaking them?

It's hard to get me to part with my money. I didn't go through with it, but this site almost convinced me to.

Coming soon 100 GoatAttack clones...

Canada please... there's no end to money I'm throwing your way then :->

Can confirm, works for Canadian numbers (same country code, and billed the same on the Twilio side of things afaics)

this deserves its own Show HN

Greatest service ever! Are you sending out term sheets? ;)

Nice. But doesn't confirm amount when processing payment.

That is soooo awesome! Just sent an attack on my wife :)

Please do a UK version, better yet a worldwide version

omg, that's amazing! So using this tonight!

okay, I am still laughing and yes I used it just now.

Still how do places like yours actually get the word out?

We got pretty big about a year ago when we posted it to /r/internetisbeautiful (mods took it down after about an hour since it requires a phone number and that's "personal info"). From there, @thepacketrat from Arstechnica picked it up and ran a story and it just sort of exploded from there for a couple days. At the peak of it's popularity we were on Ars, Business Insider, the front page of Mashable, and a handful of other outlets I can't remember off the top of my head.

That's crazy. If you don't mind my asking, does it actually make a decent amount of money? I always wonder whether things like this with very tiny transaction amounts, and (I'm assuming) a low avg. orders/person.

Also curious how hard it was to code something like this. I can think of a few less funny things like this that I'd find pretty useful for my own projects and wondering if I have enough skills to make something like this.

It makes a bit of money but not enough to quit a day job. Writing it was super simple. Both Braintree and Twilio have excellent NuGet packages for managing both APIs. I've used Twilio with node as well and same thing, very easy to use module on npm for dealing with their API. If you're thinking about doing something with Twilio stop thinking about it and just go do it. You can send yourself a text message in literally 2 lines of javascript using their npm module, 3 if you include a callback (https://gist.github.com/bcruddy/2a5bb8ac0ee538519a45fc2b3925..., got it down to 2 with a callback).

Thanks for the info, much appreciated! I did the Codecademy Twilio tutorial ages ago and wanted to try it again recently but it appears to be down unfortunately.

I'll have to give it another go and it looks like they have a Ruby gem up on their repo I'll dig into.

This is genius

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