I got a jacket as a thank-you for that. (And also an account credit, which I offered to give back for another jacket.) I wore holes in it.
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People ask me why I wore their jackets for so many years. It was a lot like a cherished sports team uniform for me, except semi-earned.
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You wear your team's colors to feel like a small part of something bigger than yourself. Twilio was, very obviously, going to be huge.
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(Somebody asked me "Name a startup that will actually change the world" 2300 days ago -- didn't have any doubts. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1173126 )
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I built a wee little business on top of Twilio. It fed my family for most of the last few years and has helped hundreds of thousands.
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I don't know if "on top of" does it justice. You build on top of AWS, but AWS generally doesn't uniquely enable things. Twilio totally did.
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The best available option for a generalist developer to do telephony was owning hardware and learning Asterisk.
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My day-one project with Twilio was a proxy to assist my family in not calling me at 4 AM in the morning JST. I still use it; it still works.
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(I used that project as an excuse to learn Sinatra: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2010/01/15/deploying-sinatra-on-ubuntu-in-which-i-employ-a-secretary/ … )
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There is something intensely personal about our relationships with phones and with people speaking through them, and it makes magic happen.
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I live a huge portion of my life staring at various IDEs and shells. My mother and my wife have never been interested *except* by Twilio.
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