Chute (YC W12) Nabs $2.7M To Become The Twilio For Media Content

Re:Chute (YC W12) Nabs $2.7M To Become The Twilio For Media ... by biot on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @08:38AM (#4285386)

Can someone explain what Twilio for media content means? Twilio is essentially API-driven telephony infrastructure. It doesn't look like Chute allows you to use an API to drive real-world audio-visual infrastructure (that would be cool!), but is rather User-Generated Content with some do-it-yourself APIs and libraries.

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Re:Chute (YC W12) Nabs $2.7M To Become The Twilio For Media ... by gregarious on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @08:54AM (#4285442)

Hi, one of the Chute founders.

It's definitely not how we describe ourselves, but I think the analogy they're gunning for is simply around exposing an infrastructure for a specific media.

User-generated is definitely a broad use of Chute but certainly not the only one. It's also being used where you have your own media (photos, etc.) that you want to publish and have a bit more flexibility in both how they're used and the info you can gather from the usage.

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Re:Chute (YC W12) Nabs $2.7M To Become The Twilio For Media ... by revorad on Tuesday July 24, 2012 @09:45AM (#4285628)

It's like saying Shopify is the Facebook of ecommerce. Software company + API = Perfect analogy!

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