[rubynerd]

I'm an ex-intern of Iron.io (ply me with enough alcohol and I'll tell you about it), and I can roughly explain IronWorker: background processing without servers, with a scheduler on top.

I wouldn't call it a 'negative value add' because it means you don't have to babysit a server somewhere, assuming you want to add scheduling onto a Twilio action (call/SMS).

If you took Iron.io out of the equation, how would you schedule the Twilio call? I assume you mean via cron, which is all well and good if you want another server/script to babysit.

That said, I haven't used anything from Iron.io since I've left, and I've written scripts which use a loop, sleep and two if statements to 'schedule' a Twilio call.

[jcampbell1]

Doesn't this require a server for a signup page? Once you have that, you get cron for free.

[rubynerd]

That Sinatra application can be run locally. From what I have gathered from the article, the Sinatra application is a pretty form for putting your phone number in, nothing more, Twilio calls Iron.io directly.

[carimura]

Rubynerd!! Hope all is well. Thanks for the comments.