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Current plan, because I'm not out to save the world:
Integrate Twilio Chat Bot with the Guild Wars 2 API, so I can ask it stuff about my account while I'm playing.
I tend to play with only one monitor, so this would allow me to not need to switch windows all the time. While the game itself has neat chat features like
/ageto know your character and account playtime, sites that hit the API like GW2Efficiency are way more useful to players.Initial plan is to start with some endpoints that don't take auth keys for the proof of concept, then add requesting a key to get some simple account stats like age as mentioned above. Time permitting, add more complex data like achievements and guild information.
Since I've messed around with the GW2 API before (it's actually really nice for a videogame API... tons of info to grab and actual documentation), I'm toying with the idea of doing this in Python rather than going the safe route of Node. I've done Python with school but never really made anything with it.
I love this idea, both because it's something you care about, but you're planning to try something a bit new with Python too. Hope it goes well for you!
EDIT: I BUILT IT: dev.to/technoplato/clipper-text-a-...
I've been wanting to build a YouTube "clipper" app for a while now, and figured this was the perfect time. There are plenty of times where I want to save a clip from a long-form interview on YouTube and currently have no way of doing so.
For this competition, I'm going to build a text bot where you text the number your URL, a start time and either a duration or an end time and I'll text you back the URL to your uploaded clip on YouTube.
Super excited to play around with new APIs and good luck to all!
EDIT
Almost have my first prototype working! Really excited about this. Going to get this minimally working and move on to more ideas! Will share a progress update tomorrow. Going to make a tutorial as well.
Sweet 🙌
I would like to hear some thoughts about an App that is related to COVID-19 Communications.
I'm thinking about an App that helps to connect those people who need help (Buying groceries, Take the dog out, Get medicine, Just someone to talk) with those people who like to help.
The first interaction would be with a text bot(via SMS, WhatsApp...) where the people specify some general information (What do you need?, Where do you live?, What do you want to help with?)
and the app would match and connect these people.
What do you think?
I think sounds good.
One update/adjustment that could work could be instead of "people who like to help" be replaced by same people that needs help, but in the following way:
I don't doubt that there are many people that really wants to help each other, but I think there could be more people that actually are planning to go somewhere and I think they could take that route to help others.
That's a good idea! I think both of our ideas could coexist in the app
I think it sounds like this post dev.to/lakshyabatman/twiliohackath...
No, I don't think it does!
My idea is to connect the people who are in need in for support (Over 65 y/o, chronic illness, not feeling well, immune deficiency...) with those people who can support (young, healthy).
The idea of the referenced post is to connect consumers with shopkeepers. I think that both ideas could complement each other well
My idea, which I am half-way through is to build a chatbot, which gives you 2 options. Either to make a confession or to react to someone else's confession. If you choose to submit one, it is stored on server, until someone answers it. If you choose to react to a confession, a confession from the server is fetched for you and once you answer it, the person who submitted it is notified with your answer.
Is it anyhow useful? I don't think so.
Did I learn something along the way so far? A LOT!
Is it fun? Hell, yeah. Finally someone answering my messages immediately 😂.
What do you think?
Hello, I am working to create a platform where people that produce food locally can make an account using their email and phone number. I want to verify this phone nr is valid firstly and then I will want to send them a code by SMS. In order to do task nr 2, I presume I need a "virtual number" from where I will send the SMS, right?
I tried creating a number from Twilio Dashboard, and I am not allowed. Can you please give me some hints on what I am doing wrong here? Thank you :)
response message: "Trial numbers can't be provisioned to an upgraded account"
That's weird that you can't provision a number. I don't know why you would be seeing that message. Your best bet may be to get in touch with Twilio support to try to sort that out.
On the other hand, if you want to do phone number verification you don't actually need your own number. You can use the Twilio Verify API instead.
Hi, I think this situation occurred when I first created a project in the Twilio dashboard and I didn't select it's for a hackathon AND I live in Romania, where (after documenting about this) I have 0 access to SMS API :) (Wish I had, because this enables other devs - myself included, to create integrations/apps with Twilio in products that can be used locally)
And thanks for the point, of not using my own phone nr, I did add it as an env property so it's not exposed in the code at all, but still, good to know I don't have to altogether. After I changed the type of project, I got a phone nr from the platform, but still using a real nr for SMS testing.
I know that SMS numbers in Romania are not available, but you can still send messages from Twilio using an international number. So if you do need one, you can use a US number (for example) and send your messages from that.
My idea for my project is an application that can connect people who are suffering from COVID-19 with people who have already recovered. The people whom I've heard from who have the disease say that having someone who went through it to talk to has helped immensely. It would use the Twilio Chat API to connect sufferers with the recovered.
Hey!
We all know that tens of thousands of hospitals in the world have a massive shortage in the number of isolation wards/hospital beds. On the other hand, there might be some other hospitals, stadiums and other public places closed down due to COVID-19. In the midst of this pandemic, the public places which are willing to set up beds/offer spaces as additional isolation wards would be able to aid the patients' need.
Think of it as an Airbnb for Isolation wards.
This web app would be able to connect hospitals that are in need of isolation wards with the providers.
Suggestions are welcome :D
Hey, this is a legitimately good idea. This might actually work out as I frequently heard lots of hospitals don't have enough beds. If this problem exists in your area, they will probably use it from day one.
I wish I can give you useful suggestions, but wish you the best!
Nowadays people are worried about their symptoms, some of them keep bombing their doctors all day telling them about their cough, body temperature or blood pressure etc.
Many of them are just in panic, but some of them might need some care and monitoring.
Few words about the idea.
It's a platform for doctors and patients where patient send his data to doctor to review periodically. Some business logic will be implemented to determine how critical is the reported data.
Twilio Notify will be used to notify doctor whenever critical data reported, or to patient whenever he doesn't input his data on time.
For future it's worth to do some research for patient real-time monitoring using sensors with RPi or similar.
I know my idea isn't unique probably at this moment but I'll have something to play with.
Good luck everybody! Be healthy Always! :)
It's great everyone have great ideas and some of them are really awesome. And here I am unable to come up with any ideas after going through Twilio documentation. 😔
While I don't know what I want to build, I do know that I'm not going to use chatting, voice, or video API as I'm not interested.
Alright, I'm torn on a couple ideas and would love to get some feedback from the community. So, let me have it! Here's what I'm thinking:
Budgeting app where you text a number as you spend money. e.g. "$4.51 at Starbucks", or "$125.23 on groceries at Publix". At the end of the week/month, get a quick tally of where you're spending the most money.
An appointment scheduler that texts you a reminder when you have an upcoming appointment, and afterwards asks you how your service was.
Get notified when a website changes. Text a website, and get a text back whenever any element on the site changes. Bonus points, identify it as a minor (product out of stock) or significant (complete redesign) change.
Any of these, or trash them all? 😅
Edit: I also thought of a 4th one: Schedule believable fake texts to get you out of uncomfortable or dangerous situations. Before leaving, schedule a time where you'll receive a message like "How's everything going?", and depending on if you include a scheduled keyword, it'll change the conversation to an innocuous and believable reason for you to leave.
I think 3 is the coolest! Also seems the best UX in my opinion. Bonus bonus points for human readable summary of changes :P