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Date Published
Author
Danielle Morrill
Word count
863
Language
English
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None

Summary

The Twilio + App Engine contest has come to a close, with Audrey winning a Dell mini Netbook and $1000 in App Engine credit for her application "Price It by Phone". Price It by Phone is an innovative application that allows users to comparison-shop for books using their touch-tone phone. The app was built from scratch over the course of two days, utilizing Twilio's API and Google App Engine. Audrey based her idea on a sample provided by Twilio and used jQuery to parse and format the data received from Amazon's Product Advertising API. Despite some challenges, particularly with dealing with XML responses, Audrey found the development experience with Twilio on App Engine to be relatively easy and praised the Twilio forums for their helpfulness.