[clammer]

At 3 cents a message, my freemium service would go bankrupt fast. Twilio has way overestimated the value they provide. My guess is that AWS will be much cheaper, like 100x - 1000x cheaper.

[robryan]

I thought the SMS problem was that the phone carriers apply higher fees to them?

[clammer]

Perhaps Twilio does pay the carriers, but I send hundreds of text messages a day and pay nothing because I send it through their email to SMS gateway.

[johns]

I'm a long time HN user that just started at Twilio so I'd love to talk to you about your app. Can you email me at [e-mail] if you want to talk more?

[hesdeadjim]

Blame the carriers, not Twilio.