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How I Built an Apartment Buzzer for Multiple Roommates

132 点作者 danielle17将近 15 年前
full disclosure - I work on Twilio, which I used for this

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patio11将近 15 年前
I love Twilio, let me count the ways. Doing flow control of an online or offline process from a phone is awesomely powerful. (Particularly cell phones.)<p>Here's a related example which I'm busy coding today: I wanted people to be able to record custom appointment reminders, but (following many years of supporting non-technical users) think microphones and MP3 encoding are probably beyond their ken. So instead, when you click "Send Mary Smith a custom reminder" on the site, it pops up a lightbox saying "Call 555-123-1234 and type in the code 1234", and when you do so the phone will say "Leave your custom message for Mary Smith's appointment on June 16th from 5:00 PM to 5:30 PM after the beep." Then, after doing so, your lightbox automatically closes and you get visual indication of success.<p>Bonus points: registering new numbers in Twilio is so cheap that I can trivially afford to give every customer their own call-in number, and tell them to put it on speed dial. Then I can use the same basic pattern for any number of tasks.
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sstrudeau将近 15 年前
This is really cool! When I was in the roommate situation, we just posted buzzer codes composed of dots &#38; dashes next to each name.
sachinag将近 15 年前
I love how the top story on Hacker News reminds me that I owe Danielle an e-mail after TC Disrupt to get myself a Twilio t-shirt. :) <i>waves at Danielle</i>
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jluxenberg将近 15 年前
Since they're using Twillo, it now costs $0.03 to enter your apartment plus $1 per month for the phone number.<p>Food for thought. Does anyone know if Twillo does sub-one-minute billing?
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vault_将近 15 年前
Wow, that's extremely cool. I remember checking Twilio out before, but I didn't quite get what the use case might be for it. This example has managed to flick on a light switch in my head, and I see that with a platform like this you could build some amazing applications. I will be playing with it more in the future.
danielle17将近 15 年前
full disclosure - i work on Twilio, which I used for this
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moolave将近 15 年前
Oh, the awesome possibilities you can create with Twilio API. =)
klous将近 15 年前
Archive of twilio contests, looking at these can be useful to generate new or related ideas. <a href="http://contests.twilio.com/archives.html" rel="nofollow">http://contests.twilio.com/archives.html</a>
pvdm将近 15 年前
What are the chances that Twillo will take an Uzi to it's API users ?<p><a href="http://twitter.com/cdixon/status/14636556473" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/cdixon/status/14636556473</a>
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eapen将近 15 年前
Nice usage!<p>At my place, I have a group ("Gate") set up in Google Voice which forwards the number to my cell phone and if I can't access my phone, then the custom voicemail that caller hears is the DTMF key ("9" in my case) sound and so if I am not able to get the phone, it will automatically buzz them in.
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