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Ryan • Edited

The best way to share news or updates is different for every person. Aunt Joanne may love using WhatsApp, but cousin Rick may want a good ol' fashioned phone call. In our case, everyone wants to know when my wife delivers our newborn this summer and we cannot wait to share the good news with everyone! But, with the stress of preparing to be a first-time parent and of course the new normal everyone is adjusting to that is the COVID-19 outbreak, the last thing I want to think about is preparing all the group chats and phone calls we will need to get to everyone.

I will be setting up a website where I can add all my loved ones to a notification list and make sure they all get notified in the way that best works for them. It would be great to leverage an Alexa Skill where I can have Alexa send a notification using Twilio to everyone subscribed while we rush out the door to the hospital.

This framework would be great for other use cases as well. COVID-19 has stressed the importance of digital communication, and any news/announcements that should be shared quickly could benefit from allowing recipients to receive notifications in the way that's best for them.

I want to make the front-end in Javascript, something I have never done but have always wanted to try. For working with the Twilio API, there are a lot of languages with existing SDKs but not an official one for Go! There are some interesting libraries already made in the open source community, but I think it would be fun to use what I know in Go and practice making a simple library myself to interact with the Twilio API.