How Patrick McKenzie uses Twilio

Short and sweet - a boon to the international traveler.

Twilio SIP

Still need to work out VoIP.

How to build Skype

Zero to Skype in nine months.

QuestionsThree

Target application - QuestionsThree [blog] [hnn] is a nifty gadget that gives you a local phone number that people can call to buzz you into the gate, then texts you that they've done it.  Very neat!

Slick little idea; now the builder is wondering 2. ??? 3. Profit, as one does.

BYOVoIP system

Here's a neat little series on cloning Skype.  Ha.

Twilio hacking

I'm not even "hacking" yet - just trying to find the time to get off the ground.  Here are a couple of bookmarks along the way.

• Client browser soft phone
• Scheduled reminder app
• A little Perl script hitting Twilio
• A second number service for testing (since I'm not currently in the States)

Perl and Twilio

Who knew?

Target domain: Telephony

Twilio [representative link] provides telephony as a service, with the ability to write applications that handle incoming calls and SMSs in ways I'm sure I don't yet fully understand. (Add Faxaway.com for incoming and outgoing faxes and I think you've got all the telephone-network-based forms of communication covered...)

Anyway, I need to do a little Twilio work for a side venture I've got going on, so I'll need to spend some time with it - the question I'm now asking myself is: how difficult would it be to put together a domain for Twilio apps? What exactly does that even mean? I want to spend some time thinking about that, because writing app domains feels like an important direction for Decl. The final output language could be anything, after all - including PHP or what have you - so this is kinda like Web programming, except different.

So. Marker in the sand here.