$250 AWS Credit & a Netbook? Build a Twilio App by Midnight on Sunday

http://blog.twilio.com/2009/08/twilio-teams-up-with-amazon-web-services-for-this-weeks-contest-category.html

by Derferman • 17 years ago

29 34 17 years ago

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marcusestes• 17 years ago

Which values an hour of our development labor at, what, $10?

ShabbyDoo• 17 years ago

And, the prizes only go to the winner.

noodle• 17 years ago

although you might be undervaluaing the PR you get from winning or possibly even just participating in the contest. may or may not re-balance the equation, but its still something of value not necessarily being considered.

johns• 17 years ago

I won the contest (with a project I had already built and was paid for) and won the netbook (which I love) but it didn't get me much PR. Granted, I wasn't selling anything or promoting a service, but the traffic increase to my blog was negligible.

jcapote• 17 years ago

Doesn't anyone hack for fun anymore?

fishercs• 17 years ago

all the hackers have grown up and work desk jobs.

if you're not contracted out to test for vulnerabilities and exploits then there better be some other incentive involved since you're no longer living in your parents basement.

catch23• 17 years ago

It's more fun if we aren't restricted to some company's application platform.

pavs• 17 years ago

This is a contest not a paid job. You are volunteering your time on something with a possibility of getting something in return.

I suppose you don't do anything for fun, just code for money?

randallsquared2• 17 years ago

For some of us, things are more fun if there's no possibility of money at all; bringing money into it means a cost/benefit calculation, whereas doing something for fun doesn't usually involve that. I like playing WoW, but if I were paid for playing WoW at $5/hr, I would do less of it.

dmorrill4• 17 years ago

well, the netbook is worth around $250 and then there is the $250 credit --- so if you take 50 hours to build your submission then it is about $10 an hour. doubt it would take that long though.

durana• 17 years ago

Anyone have any ideas for apps they want to share?

Barnabas• 17 years ago

You can get some ideas from the previous contest winners: http://www.twilio.com/contest/netbook/

sanswork• 17 years ago

I was going to use twilio for our nagios alerts but ended up going with tringme.com since they allow for international calls.

dmorrill4• 17 years ago

oh bummer, I guess we'll just have to launch international - get it on hacker news before you can get it anywhere else.

Pricing http://www.twilio.com/international-calling-rates

Account Configuration http://www.twilio.com/user/account/international

International FAQ http://www.twilio.com/international-faq

There you go!

kitcar• 17 years ago

just a tip to all startups that have a blog separate from their main website - please include an "about us" page link on the blog, or a 2 sentence summary of what your company does somewhere in the sidebar. Or at least a link to your company's product page.

(took a surprising amount of time for me to figure out what exactly Twilio offers, as I had never heard of them before...)

dmorrill4• 17 years ago

that's a great suggestion, I just re-styled the blog and will add that right away - thank!

-danielle at Twilio

david• 17 years ago

It would also help if the link to "Twilio.com" up top didn't point to "blog.twilio.com".

diN0bot• 17 years ago

haha. good point.

i didn't even bother looking--immediately opened a new tab and google for twilio's homepage.

(btw - i love contests. they're so much fun!!!)

$250 AWS Credit & a Netbook? Build a Twilio App by Midnight on Sunday

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