Jeff Lawson Builds An App In 5 Minutes Using Twilio and IBM’s Cloud Platform

Isn't that a coincidence. I just discovered the service about a week ago. I'm toying with it. I'm also discovering Gammu and Asterisk and trying to figure out what to do with all of this.

My major issue is that I'd like to use USSD or Premium Messages, but I'm afraid I might be forced dealing with mobile carriers for this (knowing that they'd never accept the service I'm proposing, because it's against their rigid philosophy).

I figured another way, but for a slight increase in costs. I'm figuring out how I'd use all these things to make what I'm trying to do.

Tried to sign up. Spent about 5 minutes trying to figure what's wrong with my password. Got signed up. Of course the system lost track on my original intent to try the Bluemix. Tried to log in again. Got a security code question. Waiting for email. Okay. Punched the security code and got question on why exactly I want a trial. Answered. Got a message that they might give me a chance for a trial.

Corporate is so corporate.

This looks pretty exciting, but extremely disappointing they are gating the registrations. Makes me wonder if they are worried about scaling this early?

Signed up yesterday because of Twitter activity