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by caseysoftware 1834 days ago
I was at an SMS aggregator before joining Twilio back in the day.

At the SMS aggregator, it took $10k to get started, $1k/month for a short code, and $0.1/message.

When I discovered Twilio and found it took $0 to get started, $1/month for a long code, and $0.01/message, the world changed.

It became easy enough to build yourself, fast enough to experiment with, and cheap enough to fail. I see the same thing happening here but with lives on the line.