[o-__-o]

Nothing sexy about monitoring. You or I could build our own overnight. Twilio is the true leverage and why they command a much higher P/E multiple

[hunterloftis]

I agree with you but I’d phrase it differently. Perhaps that neither monitoring nor sms is “sexy,” but that you could reasonably hack together a monitoring MVP over a weekend but not a telephony MVP. There’s a natural barrier from the underlying problem domain.

[bydl0coder]

Of course you can put together an SMS sending service over the weekend. It just won't scale to the whole world and will have limited throughput.