Tag Archives: Doers in action

London’s Tech Community Funds Shoreditch’s Village Hall, A Place for DOers

Here in the Twilio Europe office, right in the heart of London, we’re always hearing about cool and exciting projects happening in the local tech scene. London is one of the most beautiful and vibrant cities for doers, builders, dreamers … Continue reading →

Posted by Ben Nunney on June 7, 2013 Tagged , , ,

PennApps Recap: EyePhone, Inventory, and Making Your Coffee Maker Text You

PennApps is the largest student hackathon in the world. Students from all over the country came to Philadelphia to forego sleep in order to build innovative apps and hardware hacks. Developer Evangelist, Jon Gottfried, was on scene live coding Twilio … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on February 7, 2013 Tagged , , ,

DOer of the Month: Lyle Pratt of Better Voicemail

Lyle Pratt quit his job as a senior software engineer to found his own company, and didn’t work–at first. Then he launched Better Voicemail using Twilio to provide customized voicemail systems for your mobile phone. Users can set different voicemails … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on January 10, 2013 Tagged , , ,

TwilioCon 2012 Hackathon: DialTalent, TextAngel Win Top Prizes

Amidst a sea of burrito wrappers, empty Red Bull cans and glowing computer screens, TwilioCon hackers built 47 projects in just 6 hours during last night’s TwilioCon Hackathon. Below find out what was built and who took home the top … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on October 19, 2012 Tagged , , ,

TwilioCon 2012: The 12 Keynote DOers

This morning on stage, Jeff Lawson highlighted 12 teams of people that embody the spirit of challenge and are driving the change we see in the future of communications. These DOers are launching apps that can help the deaf communicate, … Continue reading →

Posted by Kyle Kelly-Yahner on October 17, 2012 Tagged , , ,

Your Milestone Stories: From First Calls to First Companies

In June we celebrated a huge milestone, reaching 100,000 developer accounts. In honor of this community of DOers, we asked you to share your milestone stories from experiences in your life related to entrepreneurship, hacking, and taking those scary leaps. … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on August 24, 2012 Tagged , , ,

DOers in Action: Teen Coder Eva Zheng Takes on San Francisco

I met Eva Zheng when she came by Twilio for a Women Who Code hack night, ready to start building a Twilio app. After chatting, she mentioned her older brother is Song Zheng, a developer evangelist at TokBox. She came … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on July 19, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

DOers in Action: Elizabeth Naramore Talks Life at Engine Yard and the PHP Community

If you’re active in the PHP community you know the name Elizabeth Naramore – and if you aren’t you probably still know of Elizabeth. By day she is the Community Manager at Engine Yard, focused on the Orchestra PHP platform. By … Continue reading →

Posted by Meghan Murphy on June 1, 2012 Tagged , , , ,

DOers in Action: Kunal Batra of General Machines

Kunal Batra is the founder of General Machines, a new startup whose goal it is to use Machine Learning to solve real world problems. Right now Kunal is working on multiple Twilio-powered services to help connect people who otherwise could … Continue reading →

Posted by Jonathan Gottfried on April 30, 2012 Tagged , , , ,