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Twilio’s Founder On How To Partner With 20,000 Developers (mixergy.com)
32 points by johns on Jan 10, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments



"everyone in the room, their phones ring as part of the prototype, and literally people would applaud that, saying that was amazing."

It's actually a funny thing: you can do a bunch* of stuff with software but when you start doing things that go outside computers and websites, people start to think it's magical. If you make a phone ring, or if you receive a text, or if you turn lights on and off, basically if you act on physical things that people don't mentally connect with computers, magic happens.

* well, at least, a bunch. Probably more.


> Then a developer in the corner says, "Well, I actually built the prototype and it's working and we can all use it right now."

Very nice. :)




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