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I'll definitely add the pricing to the home page. It's 10$\u002Fmonth or 100$\u002Fyear. For the longest time, the homepage was Rails' index.html. It was so hard for me to bang out…",[85],{"value":86,"source":79,"evidence":87},"Ruby on Rails",[88],{"id":82,"by":11,"text":83},"unknown",{"praise":91,"objections":120,"requests":151,"questions":179,"alternatives":195},[92,101,112],{"value":93,"source":94,"evidence":95},"Solves a real personal pain point","commenter",[96,100],{"id":97,"by":98,"text":99},"4737801","guynamedloren","Using technology to solve a personal pain point. Not a huge problem, but a problem nonetheless, and now your life is a little bit better. I like it. It's stuff like this that…",{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"value":102,"source":94,"evidence":103},"Good idea that others have also built",[104,108],{"id":105,"by":106,"text":107},"4737928","zacharycohn","I've seen (and built) similar things on top of Twilio before. Even set it up to have multiple passcodes for different friends, then it will text me \"John just let himself in.\"…",{"id":109,"by":110,"text":111},"4738386","bjeanes","Hahah nice. I built that same thing about a year ago with the Twilio API. It took about an hour. I still use it 2 apartments later. Awesome.",{"value":113,"source":94,"evidence":114},"PIN and timed access ideas are useful",[115,116],{"id":63,"by":64,"text":65},{"id":117,"by":118,"text":119},"4740047","gallaghersean","This is a wonderful idea. I've thought of doing the same with Twilio. 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I would include a summary on the use case on the questionsthree website or a short paragraph describing what exactly it is. The only reason I had some idea of…",{"id":176,"by":177,"text":178},"4737782","sushantsharma","How much is the price after 30 day trial is over? You may want to put up that price somewhere on the site.",[180],{"value":181,"source":94,"evidence":182},"Why do gate systems require a local phone number",[183,187,191],{"id":184,"by":185,"text":186},"4737861","hugi","Very cool. Still I wonder, why don't these gates accept non-local area codes, seems like a design flaw.",{"id":188,"by":189,"text":190},"4738394","weaksauce","This is great advice but it also brings up a point; why do these systems require a local number in order to operate? 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