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Thanks Patio. BTW, do you know who the blogger is who wrote the review? I'm curious to know his background, as this is the only post on his blog, and this is his only HN post. Seems a bit odd.

-jeff twilio.com

Hi gspyrou... yes, we'll do it and be able to fully support it like we do with our US SMS.

Hi audeyisaacs, international capabilities are very high on our priority list... we're listening :)

How does this educate users, who don't have the option of using SSL to begin with? It's the website operators that need the education. This just embarrasses users due to no fault of their own.

Just posted this on Anthony's blog, but thought I would post it here as well:

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Hi Anthony,

I'm sorry that you feel we were't straight forward, although our goal was to be completely transparent in our communication with you about the status of this feature. Since the time of launch, we thought we had clearly messaged that international SMS has been an unsupported feature, and that the entire product was in beta status. We had published this fact on our SMS product FAQs, as well as in the public GetSatisfaction forums. Our apologies that we weren't clear enough about that fact, which caused you to roll international SMS features into your app.

We do pride ourselves on putting developers and their applications first, and in being open in our communications, product capabilities and limitations. Please feel free to email me at jeff@twilio.com, I'm always open to feedback, questions, comments or concern.

Sincerely,

Jeff Lawson Co-Founder & CEO Twilio.com

An EC2 instance that's been running for 48 days :)

He sure did them a solid :) Nice work John!

I love how the scoreboard was in a 10pt font. SMS message on a HTC evo is probably larger.

Awesome! With appeengine, you can require authentication by users in your domain...

With stashboard, you can define all the services and statuses that are relevant to your product... it makes no assumptions. For us, it's Calls API, Account Dashboard, etc. But you can make them whatever is relevant to your customers.

Definitely a proof of concept, and not the shortest walk to the solution. But, haven't we all been thinking 4SQ / social media is all about friends, tweets, coupons and mayorships... this proof of concept shows 4SQ could one day solve business problems, like presence too.

I think that's just neato!

hi madmaze,

Yes, GV is great for consumers, but we built OpenVBX for businesses, and it's hackable so you can customize it fully. Check it out, would love feedback!

FYI: OpenVBX does transcriptions, emails, text messages and has competitive overseas prices :)

-jeff twilio.com

Ha, got "feeces"

I haven't had cable for the past 4 years. When I had cable, I watched all sorts of crap. Now, I only watch things that I do work to watch. Usually on Amazon on demand, sometimes on Netflix, sometimes on Hulu. It's a pull vs. push thing.

I have a Roku box, but Boxee is pushing the ball forward in getting developers to build for the set-top... which is the right direction.

Twilio only hits your URL when somebody sends an SMS to your phone number. So in the #1 scenario, if you sent a message via the REST API, Twilio wouldn't hit your URL. If the person replied, then your URL would be hit.

Hi Zackattack,

It's bi-directional... ie, cookie state for the conversation. But in the quickstart, if you think about it... you only increment the counter once for the received message and the reply that the script is going to send, so the counter works out correctly. You had us thinking for a few minutes there :)

-jeff @twilio

Fake, right?

Twilio will be hiring summer interns, in addition to several full time positions now open... We'd love to meet you!

http://www.twilio.com/company/jobs

I tried it out, it's super viral... I think it'll spread very easily, just like Paypal did.

Voted up because this guy is an idiot.

I didn't do well. I was trying to speak DTMF back to it :(

Voted up for the video.

congrats!

dpifke, you're right that it's definitely slower and more space consuming to index and query 32 character strings vs. ints. However, it's probably inconsequential for most applications, especially if your queries are simple SELECTs and INSERTS, as most web apps are doing.

Great Twilio application! Great writeup Kevin.

VoiceXML certainly has it's place in the Enterprise, but it's definitely a steep learning curve. At Twilio, we've attempted to simplify the model for developers who are already busy with many projects and technologies.

As Caligula pointed out, you can "play around" with VoiceXML on a number of Enterprise platforms such as TellMe, but if you want to launch, you'll have to engage in a long enterprise sales cycle and sign long contracts. That's no fun :(

- jeff

Jeff Lawson Co-Founder, Twilio

Hi Guys, thanks for the kind words about Twilio. If any YC folks want invites, just hit me up: jeff@twilio.com. Can't wait to see what you guys can build.