Twilio.com - Build Your Own Phone Applications

Twilio is a company that intends making the creation of inbound and outbound phone applications an effortless task. In essence, what the company does is to let you provide your reasoning via HTTP while they take care of the infrastructure – IE, web development, servers and databases.

The one requisite for using Twilio is being a web developer, as HTTP knowledge is required for getting the ideas across. No other software or special knowledge is actually required.

The site includes examples of the voice applications which can be created using this approach, and you can peruse them at will by visiting the corresponding section.

On the other hand, pricing is dealt with using a “pay-as-you-go” philosophy. The company charges a per minute rate for calls, and a monthly amount for each phone number that is assigned to you.

In finishing, Twilio offers an interesting service that can arouse quite a bit of online interest. Direct your browser to www.twilio.com to find out more.

“We're always building web applications, and sometimes we want those apps to be able to interact with phone callers. Maybe we want a customer to be able to call in and get information, or maybe we need to coordinate our employees more efficiently. Before Twilio, you would have had to learn some foreign telecom programming languages, or set up an entire stack of PBX software to do this. At which point, you'd say 'aw, forget it!' Twilio lets you use your existing web development skills, existing code, existing servers, existing databases and existing karma to solve these problems quickly and reliably. We provide the infrastructure, you provide the business logic via HTTP, and together we rule the world. Or something.”

It enables anybody with a basic HTTP knowledge to come up with fully-realized voice applications in a smooth fashion.

How much does the company charge? Are there different plans available?