But I have had experience working with large banks (Merill, Goldman etc) where you are compared with web21C etc when you are implementing a voice mashup solution when their CRM and Line-Of_Business Applications. The point is we could not have done that implementation with Voxeo.

So, these guys (twilio), jut like Ribbit are trying to create a buzz with students/universities now. Perhaps that is the right thing

Everybody and their mother have a platform and an API. Who has got the real customer? None –

SG

I am a big supporter of Voxeo, as they give developers all the tools needed to play around before they go live. Additionally when you need to go into production they can support you.

Skype Support – they got it
International Numbers – they got it
Toll Free numbers – they got it
text to speech – they got it
voice recognition – they got it
call bridging – they got it
call recording – they got it
Incoming/Outgoing Call Scaling – they got it

What I don’t really get is why Twilio portrayed as being the next best thing by TechCrunch.

I totally agree with what Katie says above.

BTW I have had a production application with Voxeo for more than a year and a half.

During the VoIP hypefest of years past, it would’ve made an impact, but now?

Shadowlayer

Drop us a note at help@twilio.com and let us know what your functional needs are. I bet we can help you out.

Regards,

-jeff

Thanks for all of your awesome feedback and responses here. To those who point out VoiceXML, I’d like to respond. VoiceXML has indeed been an enterprise standard for several years now, and it’s been quite successful for telecom engineers whose job is to build voice applications.

At Twilio, we feel that something a bit simpler, both from the technology and business side, will help a broader audience of developers to engage in building awesome voice apps. Each developer is free to pick the tool that suits their needs and skills, and we think there’s a time and place for all kinds of solutions.

We wish the best to everybody who’s contributed to this discussion, as well as everybody in this industry. It’s an exciting time to be building voice applications.

-jeff

I mean this service sounds fantastic and I’m sure lots of cool applications will come out of this, but building a life-or-death emergency based service on top of it is frankly terrifying.

I don’t know a lot about this niche but I’m pretty certain there’s a very good reason the Telco offerings cost an arm and a leg.

These are companies that have been dealing with natural (and man made) disasters and emergency response for decades.

Anyhow, I hope you have good insurance

do you provide functionality for SMS? For example, I use a number of phones on a daily basis (vonage lines, 2 mobiles, land lines). I’d like to choose which outgoing number is used (for callerid displayed on receiver’s line).

That is pretty much offered by Grandcentral now, and formerly by TalkPlus, although w/ GC you’re stuck w/ using your GC number as the callerid. But the big piece missing is that folks can’t text you back at that number. Of course you’d also need to ask me which mobile num to direct the text to.

Doable w/ your service?

My point, started these projects over a year ago using IfByPhone.com. The technology has been available and it’s not that challenging to integrate. Not sure if Twilio can match all the functionality but the PRICE is great – less than half per minute charges with no minimum.

I will migrate when my volume increases if I can match functionality.

Thanks,

Paul