The author shares his experience of sharing the birth of his son with friends and family who are far away. He wanted to find an easy way to automate this process, so he built an API that allows people to send a Twilio phone number and receive picture messages with photos from a cloud storage account, specifically Dropbox in this case. The author guides through purchasing a Twilio phone number, setting up a Visual Studio Web API project, creating a Dropbox helper class, and connecting the API to Twilio using ngrok. He provides step-by-step instructions on how to use the API to share photos with others, including generating an access token for Dropbox and handling errors. The author concludes by sharing his completed code and invites readers to build upon it or report any issues they may find.