A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a full-fledged service?

Re:A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a... by thrown-0825 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @03:52AM (#44897870)

Great idea and good luck.

Before you open this up to the public you should prepare to be used as a potential spam vector and put some rate limits in place.

Assuming you are using something like twilio behind the scenes it can be very difficult to get yourself off a blacklist once you wind up on one.

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Re:A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a... by Animats on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:05AM (#44897949)

Twilio will be a problem. Twilio no longer comprehends that there are non-advertising SMS applications. I used to use Twilio for something that just responded to incoming SMS messages. Then they changed their rules so that I had to register as an "ad campaign" and pay extra fees, even though I didn't do anything outbound.

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Re:A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a... by thrown-0825 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:20AM (#44898068)

Yeah i have had similar issues with them.

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Re:A telephony agent for my parents. Should I turn it into a... by ranabasheer on Thursday August 14, 2025 @04:01PM (#44904975)

I agree, keeping the spam off the tool is the hardest part. I have put in place a whitelisting of phone numbers. But that will all be thwarted by a determined spammers.

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