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by aoprisan 4846 days ago
it's misleading to offer this free credit but have such a huge exclusion on what you can do with it.. Twilio used to have a $20 credit for all new accounts without restrictions, but now that the product matured, it's no more. if you expect people to start building things on your platform and show them off, give them real credit without the *fine print.
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You can still use all our apis and xml and build your apps. Like I mentioned earlier, you can still use any of the free DID services and those will work with us.
Except you can't call out or use SMS - there aren't any free services that provide those - which constrains the apps you can build. I have to agree that this announcement is a little underwhelming especially compared to what Twilio used to offer.
Plivo Endpoints works just as great as real numbers. So, you can just build your app using endpoints and use real numbers when you are good to go.