Building Web Apps That Talk Back

A brief presentation on using Twilio to add SMS/Voice capabilities to your application.

Transcript

1. building web apps that talk back With @timmycrawford | github: timmyc Sunday, February 5, 12
2. WHY? it is easy and robots kick ass Sunday, February 5, 12
3. getting started is easy Step One: Sign up at Twilio.com free $30 credit ftw! Step Two: Grab SID and AUTH Token Step Three: Hack away using your Favorite Language Sunday, February 5, 12
4. mo money Mo Problems? $1.00 Lease a phone number per month $0.01 per text $0.01 inbound call per minute $0.02 outbound call per minute Sunday, February 5, 12
5. api library diversity php ruby python .net java node.js -omg! or just roll a rest client Sunday, February 5, 12
6. but since i’m a brogrammer i will use ruby (fist Bump) Sunday, February 5, 12
7. twiml .is_easy? >> true brogram> gem install twilio brogram> gem install builder Sunday, February 5, 12
8. how it works* magical twilio api *ripped off from twilio.com, no they didn’t pay me to give this presentation Sunday, February 5, 12
9. just use verbs <SAY> <play> <gather> <record> <dial> <hangup> <pause> Sunday, February 5, 12
10. real world example #1 product is available! Sunday, February 5, 12
11. i need longboard! Sunday, February 5, 12
12. mom and kid options 1995 Pine hipsters Sunday, February 5, 12
13. Twilio.connect(TWILIO_SID, TWILIO_AUTH) Twilio::Sms.message( TWILIO_NUMBER, MOBILE_NUMBER, "click here to confirm" ) Sunday, February 5, 12
14. you just made your app talk back Sunday, February 5, 12
15. people dig it Sunday, February 5, 12
16. Example #2 conepatrol.com Sunday, February 5, 12
17. how? robots scrape and twiml! Sunday, February 5, 12
18. imagine this: It snows up at mt bachelor they actually open robot scrapes twilio sends alerts! Sunday, February 5, 12
19. text alert flow: rails app twilio api voice alert flow rails app twilio api gets twiml Sunday, February 5, 12
20. <Response> <Play loop="1">http://conepatrol.com/ clips/kids.mp3</Play> <Pause>2</Pause> <Say voice="female" language="en" loop="1">Good morning gaper timmy! It is time to wake up because bachelor got 6 inches. It is currently 26 degrees at west village and 23 degrees at pine marten. RIP IT UP LOL!</Say> <Hangup/> </Response> LIVE DEMO!!! Sunday, February 5, 12
21. repeat from roa 2K11 phone lottery Sunday, February 5, 12
22. 541-526-7770 https://github.com/timmyc/Phone-Lottery Sunday, February 5, 12
23. questions? call my twilio number :P and tell people about conepatrol.com Sunday, February 5, 12