Our contest is as simple as Twilio itself, every Monday we announce a "theme" to help guide your ideas for what to build and you have one week to build and submit your project. On the following Monday we announce the winner and send them a Netbook, and any other prizes from our contest partners.
Week #24 & #25 Category: Twilio for Salesforce, with AppirioDeadline: 11:59pm on Thursday, November 19th
How can you help your customers streamline their business processes,
convert leads, and take their company to the next level using Twilio
plus Salesforce? For the next two weeks, we've teamed up with Salesforce and Appirio for what promises to be one of our most exciting developer challenges yet.
With the help of Kyle Roche and Aslam Bari from Appirio, Twilio is now available for development on Force.com, the Salesforce development platform. The Appirio team has implemented the Twilio API in APEX, which is the force.com backend language, so get ready to build scalable reliable voice and communications apps on the leading platform for business apps and website
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Twilio for E-Commerce - TapeOnline.com Phone-In Order Manager by Jimmy Baker
Customers of TapeOnline.com can call in to check the status of their orders, place new orders, or get in touch with a customer service representative. Dial 877-248-0621 to give it a try!
Twilio for E-Commerce - Ripstyles CD Conversion Ecommerce by Jonathan Kressaty
Customeres of Ripstyles can call in to get the status of their orders over the phone. To give it a try dial 866-960-9433, press 2 at the prompt, and then enter 1001588 as your order number to hear the order status.
Twilio + Google App Engine - Price It by Phone by Audrey Roy
Price It by Phone makes it easy to check Amazon.com for the lowest prices on books while you're out shopping at the store. Call 877-265-8137 and enter the 10 digit ISBN code to find the new and used prices are on Amazon.
Once you're back at home, visit the Price It by Phone website and enter your phone number for a full list of books you've searched.
Twilio for Government - Mobile Commons
Mobile Commons provides many ways for citizens to contact their local representatives in the Senate and Congress, as well as the President of the United States.
With Mobile Commons, calls can be initiated via web interface, SMS, or simply by dialing 866-581-7519 Try the demo now.
Twilio for Government - FixMyCity DC by Zvi Band
Have you ever wanted to report a particularly bad pothole, downed
tree, or other issue that needs to be resolved by city services?
FixMyCityDC provides a tool for doing just that, and then takes it one step further by calling you back when the issues is resolved. Transparency and accountability in government services has become increasingly popular, and with FixMyCityDC taxpayers can make sure their money is put to work on the issues that impact them directly.
Windows Azure - Cloud Call Me Facebook App by Dennis Palmer
CloudCallMe is a Facebook application for calling your Facebook friends with the click of a button. Using it is simple, just add the app and configure your phone number. Any friends who also have the application will be listed, and you can simply click "Call" to be connected to them. Dennis coded right up until the contest deadline with the (very vocal) support of his wife. You can find Dennis on Twitter @CoderDennis
Try CloudCallMe now
Amazon Web Services - Email Center Pro Voice Alerts by Evan Coonrod
Voice Alerts is a new feature of Email Center Pro that gives you a
phone call when new email matching certain criteria arrives in your
Email Center Pro account. It reads a list of matching conversations,
and allows you to select a conversation to have it read to you.
Amazon Web Services - Ask-a-Human by Eugene Osovetsky
By combining Twilio with Amazon Mechanical Turk, Ask-a-Human allows anyone with a caller-ID-enabled phone to call a toll-free number, submit the question, and then get called back with the answer. Ask-a-Human uses two incoming Twilio numbers (a toll-free one for the question submitters, and a toll one for the Mechanical Turk answer submitters). The application is written on ASP.NET, and is completely stateless (with all state being handled by Twilio and MTurk).
Try it out! Call (866) 584-0774 from any caller-ID enabled phone, ask any question, and you will get called back with the answer within one hour.
Interactive Advertising - ExcitementLivesHere.com by Bradley Lambert
With ExcitementLivesHere.com viewers experience a pregame pep talk, and receive a customized call from the head football coach of the Middle Tennessee State Blue Raiders.
The coach's phone message is unique for each home football game of the season and for each "favorite play" selected. The goal of the application is to motivate fans to purchase tickets, and these eye-catching interactive elements and fresh content make the page sticky and interesting on every visit.
Interactive Advertising - AdGames by Chad Etzel
The AdGames demo provides an interactive gaming advertising method
that advertisers could use in store fronts or anywhere else that an
internet enabled screen can be displayed.
By turning the cell-phone
into a video game controller, anyone walking around a mall or city
shopping district can now become an engaged player instantly. This game
challenges the viewer to re-arrange tiles on and advertisement in order
to claim a coupon.
The .NET Framework - Twilio REST Library for .NET 3.5 by Robert McLaws
Congratulations to Robert McLaws, who resubmitted from Week 5 to win the Week 13 Netbook prize! Robert built a Twilio WCF REST Client Library for
.NET 3.5, which he describes as, "a strongly-typed .NET API to build
rich, robust services against Twilio's platform".
The library helps developer productivity by reducing the learning curve by eliminating the need to learn the ins and outs of Twilio's system, and provides a discoverable, thoroughly-documented, IntelliSense-backed API library, as well as a sample Console application to get you up and running quickly.
PHP Applications - OnSite Clarity by John Tegen
Would you like to empower your sales team (or yourself) with better tools to manage day-to-day activities? OnSite Clarity is a sales
management application available in the fall of 2009. This Adobe Flex
and PHP based application integrates Twilio to manage outbound (click
to call), inbound (call routing), voice mail and call management.
Controlling Real-World Devices - Control Your House Anywhere, Anytime by David Bello
Have you ever wanted to hack a Roomba, find an easier to answer the buzzer to your apartment building, or turn lights on and off remotely? What if you could do it with your phone? CYHAA by David Bello makes it easy to turn the lights in your house on and off.
Not only did David create a simple and powerful tool for controlling real-world objects, he also used the voice recognition engine from LavaRock HQ, which was created by Twilio customer Kurtis Welch at Magma Software.
Lead Generation - Digital Home Info by Adam Small
Digital Home Information is a comprehensive lead generation and listing marketing system designed to help Realtors reach more buyers and attract sellers. The web interface allows listings agents to set up each of their properties so that information can be retrieved by phone, text, or web browser. When a caller contacts the service, their information is also routed to the listing agent via text message and/or email for follow-up.
To try it yourself. Dial 866-582-7608 and enter property code "2000".
Twilio + Heroku Ruby Challenge - DukeNow by Michael Ansel
Do you ever walk around campus thinking, "I'm so hungry, but what's open right now"? Michael Ansel cleverly solved this problem for the Duke University campus with his winning application. Using instant Ruby platform Heroku and Twilio, Michael created a call-in application that will tell you about the places that are open so that anyone can access this information, even without a mobile browser. To try it out, please call (866) 583-6913 with PIN code 4456-8772.
The demo is live on Heroku and the code is available on Github
Coordinating People - Simple Hotline by John Sheehan
With Simple Hotline, John Sheehan can alert the members of his softball league when inclement weather hits and a game is rained out.
As John says, "Twilio's pay-as-you-go model works perfectly for this league. They only pay when there's bad weather which only happens 1-3 times per year. The hotline has help the league save money at a time when money is tight."
Fun & Games - Simolio by Steve Castle
Studies
say that brain teaser games help us maintain memory and mental agility,
so what better than playing the popular 1980s game Simon via your
telephone with Steve Castle's Simolio?
Simolio is a memory game where you call in and attempt to memorize and repeat patterns of numbers or sounds using the telephone keypad.
To try out the game, call +1 (866) 583-6913 with pin 1089-3785.
Open Source It! - Twilio + Nagios by Alex Polvi
Want to make sure your on-call team gets up and out of bed when a Nagios alarm is triggered? Alex pairs Twilio-powered phone alerts with Nagios systems infrastructure monitoring to generate robot-voice alerts to the systems administrator responsible for handling the situation. And who can resist a robot calling at 3am?
Find the open sourced code on Github
Speech-to-Text Transcription - CallTheMilk by Brian Levine
Do you find yourself thinking of things to add to your to-do list at the most inconvenient times and places? Do you wish you could capture new to-do items as you think of them, on the go? CallTheMilk was created by Brian "Beans" Levine to solve this problem.
The service integrates the power of voice with the simplicity and utility of Remember the Milk, a popular tool for capturing to-do lists and providing reminders. Call the toll-free number anytime to add new tasks to your to-do list. The voice recordings are transcribed to text and accessible in your Remember the Milk account.
Outbound Notifications & Alerts - PagerDuty by Andrew, Alex, and Baskar at Synchronicity Labs
PagerDuty is a tool to help manage on-call staff and set alarms to escalate tickets through the appropriate channels. Forward alerts from your existing monitoring systems (Nagios, RightScale, etc.) to Pager Duty, configure your on-call schedule and business rules for escalation, and PagerDuty takes care of notifying your team members.
With Twilio, PagerDuty offers voice notifications in addition to their SMS and email alerts. If you specify to receive an alert by phone, the contents of the alert are read aloud and the call recipient has the choice to suppress or resolve the ticket.
Outbound Notifications & Alerts - RemindMe by Kurtis Welch
RemindMe is a personal productivity tool that enables callers to create and receive notifications over the phone with voice.
When you call in, the service uses LavaRock to interpret the date and time you want to schedule your reminder, and records your then voice message. On the assigned date and time you'll receive a call and your voice reminder recording is played back to you.
Killer Marketing Tools - Twilleetio by Trevor Smith
The category for Week #2 was "Killer Marketing Tools", and Trevor killed it with this tool for phoning in short audio segments and sharing them with Twitter.
To try out Twilleetio, dial (206) 455-6221, and use passcode 4422. Leave a message, and when you are prompted choose to tweet it. Then visit the Twilleetio Twitter account, to see a link to the audio file and a transcription of the call.
Get the source code for this application here
Improving Customer Service - RepeaterStore by Brendan Gill
RepeaterStore is a leading e-commerce storefront focused on selling wireless
repeaters; those little devices that make your iPhone work inside your
apartment (where you get no coverage).
Using Twilio, RepeaterStore now enables customers to pick up their phone (landline, probably) and call-in to enter their order ID and automatically retrieve their tracking number and detailed order status. If a package hasn't been delivered yet, customers receive an expected delivery date and can even select to have the details emailed with just the press of a button.
