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4points
12comments
#197of 370 in 2010
Top 54%of 2010 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

0 positive, 2 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 2 critical, out of 5 comments about the project. Thread score -0.24.

Execution: 0 for, 1 againstPricing: 0 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.

positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Looks like a nice MVP

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations! It looks like you have a nice MVP there. Good work. I found the "Pricing" page to be needlessly confusing. There's a lot of room for optimization there.
      michael_dorfman on HN

Objections

  • Pricing page is confusing

    From 1 comment
    • Congratulations! It looks like you have a nice MVP there. Good work. I found the "Pricing" page to be needlessly confusing. There's a lot of room for optimization there.
      michael_dorfman on HN
  • Monthly plan forces estimating usage and recurring charges

    From 1 comment
    • The problem with the "monthly" concept is that it forces me to estimate how many notifications I am going to get each month, and then choose an appropriate plan. For me, that was…
      michael_dorfman on HN
  • UK number verification text not delivered

    From 1 comment
    • It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
      1tw on HN

Requests

  • Pre-paid message packs instead of monthly plans

    From 2 comments
    • Minimum Viable Product. In terms of the Pricing page, there are two possible ways to deal with the problem. One, of course, is to fix the page. The other is to fix the pricing…
      michael_dorfman on HN
    • The problem with the "monthly" concept is that it forces me to estimate how many notifications I am going to get each month, and then choose an appropriate plan. For me, that was…
      michael_dorfman on HN
  • List the countries where the service is available

    From 1 comment
    • It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
      1tw on HN

Questions

  • Does the service work outside the US

    From 2 comments
    • It might be a good idea to let users know where the service is available? (I entered a UK number complete with country code and the site claimed to have sent me a verification…
      1tw on HN
    • John from Twilio here. We do deliver to a huge number of countries, but there's issues with some non-US carriers that prevent us from guaranteeing delivery to non-US numbers.…
      johns on HN

Alternatives named

  • Google AdWords prepay model

    From 1 comment
    • Are they really going to be using the product "monthly", or just continuously, on an ongoing basis? I was thinking, I suppose, of Google AdWords, which has a pre-pay model-- you…
      michael_dorfman on HN

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