Monthly Archives: August 2010

New Developer Contest: MongoDB – Ends August 22nd 11:59pm PST

For this week's developer contest, we're challenging you to build the best use of Twilio and MongoDB in the same application. Since almost every app out there needs a database, we're leaving the door wide open for any kind of … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on August 18, 2010 Tagged

Twilioflow – Using State Machines for Twilio Call Flows

Dhananjay Keskar has released Twilioflow on github; it’s a Rails plugin for state machine driven interactions with Twilio. Twilioflow provides: A Workflow approach for keeping your business logic inside models Concise Ruby way for specifying voice responses and key press … Continue reading →

Posted by John Britton on August 17, 2010 Tagged , ,

Twilio and MongoDB team up for this week's netbook contest!

For this week’s developer contest, we’re challenging you to build the best use of Twilio and MongoDB in the same application. Since almost every app out there needs a database, we’re leaving the door wide open for any kind of … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on August 16, 2010 Tagged , ,

Startup Weekend DC – 55 Pitches to 11 Products in a Weekend

I’m on a bus back to NYC after an amazing Startup Weekend DC. There were 55 startups pitched on Friday night, Saturday morning 11 teams were formed and Sunday evening they each demoed a prototype that they built in just … Continue reading →

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Bootstrapping Your Business On a Budget

This is a guest post from Aaron Porter, a long-time Twilio developer and founder of MyPhoneTap.com, a service that makes it easy for you to record phone calls.  Aaron was able to launch his business quickly and cheaply, and in … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on August 12, 2010 Tagged , ,

Vote for Twilio at the SXSW Interactive Festival

South by Southwest is just around the corner… well sort of. Although the event doesn’t take place until March, we’re already starting preparations for this year’s Interactive Festival. We were there last year and we’re hoping to step it up … Continue reading →

Posted by John Britton on August 11, 2010 Tagged , ,

Aaron Foss, You've Won a Netbook from Twilio for MedTaker!

Congratulations to Aaron Foss, creator of MedTaker, for winning the Twilio “Health and Fitness” developer contest! MedTaker takes advantage of the ubiquity of the phone to help people remember to take their medication while at the same time periodically checking … Continue reading →

Posted by John Sheehan on August 10, 2010 Tagged , , ,

New Developer Contest: Windows Phone 7 – Ends August 15th 11:59pm PST

This week for our developer contest we're challenging you to make the best use of Twilio in an Windows Phone 7 app. You could win a Netbook and $100 in developer credit from Twilio if you come up with the … Continue reading →

Posted by twilio on August 9, 2010 Tagged

New Developer Contest: Windows Phone 7 – Ends Sunday August 15th

Windows Phone 7 is a new smartphone platform that makes it easy for any developer to build mobile apps that leverage the .NET Framework, Silverlight and XNA. For this week’s netbook contest, we’re challenging you to build the best Windows … Continue reading →

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