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Join us for the Twilio Challenge: $5,000 in Prizes!

dev.to staff on June 12, 2024

We are so delighted to partner with Twilio for a new DEV challenge. Running through June 23, the Twilio Challenge is all about combining the powe...
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Anthony

Hi everyone, I'm a Developer Evangelist at Twilio.
If you need any support with this challenge, please tag me.

Looking forward to your submissions. Happy coding!

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Andrii

Hi @anthonyjdella, I wanted to participate but Twilio blocked my account without any explanation long time ago, and support didn't help/explain anything.

my email: serafimsanvol@gmail.com

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Anthony

@serafimsanvol Sorry about that, I'll contact support to fix the issue.

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Andrii

Thanks, @anthonyjdella!

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Anthony

@serafimsanvol Could you please create a support ticket? If you could, please attach a screenshot and any info about what steps you took until you reached the error. Once you've done that I've escalated this to support and they'll be able to help.

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Andrii

@anthonyjdella, for now, it magically started working again, I wonder what happened :)
Thanks

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Anthony

Great news, good luck with the challenge!

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cauhlins

Hi @anthonyjdella Does an API service count? Or do I need to build a full app that has a frontend?

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Anthony

That counts, so you can build an app without a frontend if you'd like.

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Mohamed Ashiq Sultan

where to enter the promo code, I signed up with gmail but dont see any options to use the promo code under Billing tab.

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Anthony

@ashiqsultan There are 2 ways to use a promo code:

  1. If you have a Trial account which are upgrading
  2. If you have an Upgraded account

For 1, twilio.com/console/billing -> Upgrade -> Fill in your information -> Fund Account -> Promo Code tab
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For 2, go to twilio.com/console/billing -> Billing Overview -> Add Funds -> Promo Code tab
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Birusha Ndegeya

@anthony. I would like to clarify to know how much trial do we have while using Twilio for learning

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Anthony

Hi @birusha when you sign up for a Trial account you will be given $15 of trial credits.

  1. Here's a guide to Free Trial Accounts (US Only).
  2. If you are outside the US, here's a guide to Free Trial Accounts (Outside the US).

Additionally, use the promo code twilio-ai-devto-anrnp for an additional $20 of credits.

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Birusha Ndegeya

@anthonyjdella

Thank you so much

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dami • Edited

Hi @anthonyjdella, I'm having issues upgrading my Twilio account with the promo code provided. It says the code has expired. please help

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Jess Lee

Hi @thatcoolguy, please try the promo code that's currently listed on the post. Thanks!

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srini047

It doesn't work actually. I tried multiple other promos mentioned in discussions as well.
Any help appreciated @anthonyjdella

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Jess Lee

Have you tried the latest promo code on the post?

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Amit Wani

Hi @anthonyjdella Given promo codes are not working. It is saying code expired.

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Rishab Kumar

Hi @thegeekyamit could you try this promo-code: twilio-ai-devto-6099i. They are rotated every day.

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Amit Wani

Thanks alot. :D

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chintanonweb

Is it possible to change the WhatsApp join code name!! I'm not able to find anything related to that

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omu inetimi

hi Anthony, im building an app but continually receive a CORS error

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Ketan Rajpal

Dear Anthony,

I am trying to use the promo code "twilio-ai-devto-anrnp". But it gives me the error "twilio-ai-devto-anrnp cannot be used on your account.". Can you please help.

Thank you

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Anthony

@ketanrajpal Please try with a new code: twilio-ai-devto-cc4f4

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Ketan Rajpal

I tried but it's the same.

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Shweta Kale

@anthonyjdella it says code is expired. I tried both codes.

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Jess Lee

Can you try code twilio-ai-devto-b24we?

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Ketan Rajpal

This also not working.

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Shweta Kale

@jess this worked for me. Thanks!!

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Jess Lee

@ketanrajpal can you try twilio-ai-devto-6099i?

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Ketan Rajpal

It says, the code has expired.

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Jess Lee

Hi @ketanrajpal, please try the promo code that's currently listed on the post. Thanks!

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Ketan Rajpal

I tried it, it says "twilio-ai-devto-9opgh cannot be used on your account."

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Rishab Kumar

@ketanrajpal let's debug that, could you reach out to me on LinkedIn or X/Twitter..

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Shreya Nalawade

@anthonyjdella can we make application which belong to two or more categories

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Jess Lee

@shreya111111 Yes you can. There will be a section on the template that asks which categories your project may qualify for - be sure to mention all of them!

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Shreya Nalawade

quick question do we have to integrate ai with twilio or ai should be part of application with the usage of twilio @anthonyjdella

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Anthony

@shreya111111 Either works!

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Dhanush Reddy

hey @anthonyjdella , it says promo expired
twilio-ai-devto-cc4f4

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Jess Lee

Can you try code twilio-ai-devto-b24we?

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Rajeev R. Sharma

Apparently this code has expired as well. Any other option?

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Jess Lee • Edited

@ra_jeeves can you please try that one again or twilio-ai-devto-6099i?

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Rajeev R. Sharma • Edited

The new code shared now (6099i), worked fine. Thanks @jess

Tried just now, same result, "Expired".
Was thinking of doing something with programmatic voice, and the default phone number given by Twilio is a US number, which is quite expensive if called from India. So maybe a local Twilio number will be better, but for that we need an upgraded Twilio plan.

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Yogesh Sharma

@ra_jeeves can you please try that one again or twilio-ai-devto-6099i?

@jess This code is also expired

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Rishab Kumar

@1995yogeshsharma Could you give it another try? Thank you.

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Yogesh Sharma

worked now, thanks @rishabk7 !

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Rajeev R. Sharma • Edited

@rishabk7 Deleted my previous comment as the code in the main post worked. And I've refreshed the page many times to confirm that the upgrade is done.

But I've a question related to programmatic voice. Tried buying a local number for India and it seems that it is not possible to do so. So how do I test phone calls receiving? Making a call to the US number is not feasible as the operator charges are quite high. Is there a simpler way to do this?

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Rishab Kumar

Hi builders, I'm a DevEvangelist here at Twilio.
If you need any support with this challenge feel free to tag me.
Can't wait to see what you build!

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chintanonweb

I am confused about WhatsApp send receive from Twilio UI I am able to do send receive but I want to configure AI into it where I can integrate that function for WhatsApp, but I'm not able to find it.

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Anthony

Hi @chintanonweb how are do you have your application set up? You can add some AI API calls into your application for example.

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Sweta Kanguri Sonulkar

why is it asking me identity government card?

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Anthony

@sweta_kangurisonulkar_ From which region are you registering from? Depending on your country, we may ask for an ID to verify the individual. This is to help build an ecosystem with less fraud and spam messages.

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Ben Halpern

Good luck!

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Peter Kim Frank

Excited about this one!

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Jess Lee

Good luck everyone!

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Aditya Oberai

Just finished my submission 🥳

@anthonyjdella, I do have some product feedback. When trying out Twilio Functions, I noticed that the max length of environment variables is set to 255 characters. I was using Appwrite Databases as a part of my project, and the API keys happened to be 256 characters in length. This made it somewhat challenging to use environment variables for that purpose.

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Rishab Kumar

@adityaoberai Thank you for the feedback, that is good point.

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Aditya Oberai

Cheers 🙌

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Anthony

@adityaoberai Thanks for the feedback, we'll alert our product team and try to get this on the roadmap.

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Aditya Oberai

Awesome, thank you :)

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sahra 💫

Sounds awesome. 💥🚀🚀. God Speed to all participants

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Syed Muhammad Ali Raza

Good Luck Developers

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Paulo Henrique

LET'S GOOOOOOO

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Fraser Young

Exciting

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Tolulope Gbenga

Hi, none of the codes are working for me

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Captain jay

@tophepzz1 did your issue get solved? i am having same problems

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Tolulope Gbenga

yes thank you

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Sojin Samuel • Edited

Update: New code: twilio-ai-devto-quwz5

@captain0jay

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Dave Hall

That one, along with all the other codes in this thread have expired 😢

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Jess Lee

Hey, please give the current code a try?

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Dave Hall

Thanks! That worked.

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Vivek K J • Edited

Hey, the promocode isn't working

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twilio-ai-devto-cc4f4, twilio-ai-devto-anrnp, twilio-ai-devto-6099i are also not working

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Rishab Kumar

Could you give this code another try, thank you.
twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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Vivek K J

Yes, that's worked. Thanks 🫶🏼

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Jenna

Hello,

Good luck to everyone participating in the Twilio Challenge! 🪄🤖🙂

Looking forward to the great ideas out there! 🌟💡

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Devananth A

Can anyone share some sample ideas to build ?

"Build on top of existing twilio project", What does it mean ? To use Twilio API and add AI features to it ?

cc: @anthonyjdella @rishabk7

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Rishab Kumar

So that means, if you already have a Twilio project that you built in past, add AI functionality to it, if applicable. Hope that helps.

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Devananth A

ohh okay, that helps. Thanks

If possible, Can you share some sample ideas to build ?

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Anthony

@devananth For inspiration, our developer blog has a lot of fun projects. Also, if you're in the US, we have 2 upcoming holidays which you could use for inspiration.

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Devananth A

Thanks, will checkout the blogs.

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Aditya Gupta

hey @anthonyjdella I was kinda building react app using twilio but somehow I could not login after few hours of inactivity Is there any way to resolve this issue I already generated support ticket but they fwded it to another team.

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Anthony

Could you please send me your Account SID, error, and email address to me at adellavecchia@twilio.com ?

I can flag this to our support team.

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Aditya Gupta

Oh I got it resolved by support team Ig I had made two accounts before and for this contest created third one so they kinda raised security issue but I gave them my details and support team was quite helpful and I submitted my project today. Still thanks for helping out :) Anthony

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Aditya Gupta

Also @anthonyjdella can we extend the deadline for submission cuz ig many people are facing same issue as myself.

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Arthur Burgin Jr

Hello! I tried a few of the codes shared throughout the comments but they're all expired..

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Jess Lee

@artyymcflyy try this one? twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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Arthur Burgin Jr

It says the code has expired, I mustve missed the window to redeem. Can I have another then I'll try?

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Rishab Kumar

It should work, could you give it another try, thank you.
twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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Arthur Burgin Jr

That worked! Thank you

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Bibek

Finally, after over a week and iteration through multiple ideas I am able to complete this project.

dev.to/bibekkakati/simplify-phone-...

Looking forward for your feedback, folks ⚡️

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Trang Le

Hi @anthonyjdella . Is it possible to configure a Whatsapp number to call a webhook URL? In this doc, the example is for a phone number. I tried replacing the phone number with the WhatsApp number and Twilio CLI sent back a 400 response.

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Anthony

@bytrangle Yes, I believe this is the doc you are looking for.

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Yogesh Sharma

@anthonyjdella @rishabk7

I am building a WhatsApp chat bot with Twilio. I have set up, Twilio phone number, messaging service, and content template, and got the WhatsApp business account set up.

I am writing my code in a flask app, when I am trying to send message, I am getting "ERROR: 63024"

I am not really sending any authentication-related message so not sure why my message should get blocked.

Can you point me to the right direction on what I should do?

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Trang Le

Hello Twilio team @anthonyjdella . It seems like the promo code for dev.to participants has expired.
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Rishab Kumar

@bytrangle So the promo-codes are rotated daily. Could you try this promo-code: twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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Peter Saulitis

AND Cloudflare Workers AI??? Oh yeah - can't wait for this one!

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Rishab Kumar

let's go 🚀

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Dhruv

@anthonyjdella @rishabk7

Twilio was unable to fetch content from: 127.0.0.1:3000/gather
Error: Blacklisted IP 127.0.0.1
Account SID: ACb072243accc9f456f0ea6e443942bf15
SID: CA08d2eea701d997c97d655ef196edecab
Request ID: 100fc8d1-3a5d-4d9b-95fc-c4d39e75da5b
Remote Host: 127.0.0.1
Request Method: POST
Request URI: 127.0.0.1:3000/gather
URL Fragment: true

can we not make a gather request action to a localhost route?

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Anthony

Hi @dhruvb26 your application is hitting localhost, but you'll need a publicly accessible URL from the Internet. Try to deploy your application or have it tied to a public URL, instead of localhost. One tool I like to use is ngrok, here's a cool guide to help you.

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dami

Hi @anthonyjdella @rishabk7 . I'm having issues upgrading my Twilio account with the promo code provided. It says the code has expired. please help. I've tried all the options provided in the comments

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Rishab Kumar

Hi dami, could you give it one more try, here is the promo-code: twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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dami

Thanks it worked

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Radhika

Hello team @anthonyjdella and everyone, quick question - are no code/low code solutions allowed? hoping to integrate airtable/zapier based workflow -- but such apps don't provide source code and we directly use api on their platform. write functions. So are such solutions valid?

p.s. some tools allow few additional members on free plan so can add organiser/others as team member.

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İren SALTALI

I have tried almost all of the promo codes on this page, but they have all expired. Can I have another valid promo code @anthonyjdella ?

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Jess Lee

Hi @irensaltali, please try the promo code that's currently listed on the post as they are rotated regularly. Thanks!

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İren SALTALI

Thank you.

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Jay Captain

Hi @anthonyjdella i was trying to signup for twilio sendgrid but i was locked out saying "after a thorough review we regret to inform you that we are unable to procced with ctivating your account" it happened in matter of seconds so i have no idea what thorough review is being talked about here and i am not able to access twilio sendgrid website without which i am not able tto move further in the project i got a mail sying my support ticket is #17367301 it was open and closed in seconds can you please fix it deadline is near

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cauhlins

Hello @anthonyjdella Does the use *Twilio SendGrid * count? If yes, is there an available webhook that I can use to monitor incoming mails? Thanks in anticipation of your response.

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Anthony

Hi @onwuagba yes Twilio SendGrid counts as a product you can use. Yes, you can use a webhook to monitor incoming emails. Check these docs

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Aditya Oberai

The promo code seems to have expired

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Jess Lee

Hi @adityaoberai, can you try this code? twilio-ai-devto-6099i

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Aditya Oberai

That worked! Thank you 😁

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John Louie Navales

Goodluck to all participants

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Alik Darley dos Santos

Bacana 5000 dólares não se ganha toda hora! Boa sorte aos participantes
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Devarshi Shimpi

Participating!

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Rishab Kumar

let's go 🚀

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Alex • Edited

sounds great! thank you for organising

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Martin Baun

Best wishes everybody! :)

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Samuelrivaldo

Thank you verry much. 🙏

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adriens

Quite excited by "making something fun"

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Ansh Saini • Edited

Can one person be both the 'prompt winner' as well the 'prize category winner'?

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Jess Lee

Yes, you can can win both the prompt and prize category but that is generally unlikely.

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Hussain Shaikh

Hi @anthonyjdella @rishabk7 the promocode twilio-ai-devto-gutvt has expired

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Pratyay Banerjee • Edited

@thepracticaldev, @anthonyjdella This is what we shipped → dev.to/neilblaze/visuspeak--24j ✨ , I hope y'all will love it! Feedbacks are greatly appreciated! 😎

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Pratyay Banerjee

@anthonyjdella any feedback on our product? Thanks! :D

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Femi Akinyemi

Hi @anthonyjdella , can you please help me with activating my SendGrid account? Despite responding to the questions asked, it is still unactivated.

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Femi Akinyemi

Hi @anthonyjdella can you please help me check this

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imdad.tech

Hello, the twilio-ai-devto-cc4f4 promo has expired

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Jess Lee

Can you try code twilio-ai-devto-b24we?

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Aditya Oberai

Just wanted to double check whether Sendgrid is considered valid too?

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cauhlins

Does an API service count? Or do I need to build a full app that has a frontend?

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Anthony

There are no restrictions so you can build an app without a frontend if you'd like.

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GreggHume

ahh im only seeing this challenge now, good luck all!

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Captain jay

@anthonyjdella the code given here and in comments are not working

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Tolulope Gbenga

@anthonyjdella @captain0jay
please i'm having issues with the whatsapp sender API, i can't seem to get it registered
on facebook i can see it but on the twilio whatsapp sender page, it's not showing

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Sojin Samuel

I'm gonna win this one

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Dwaipayan Sen

@anthonyjdella , can you please provide today's promocode? All promocodes are seemingly expired.

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Jess Lee

Hey, please give the current code a try?

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Chris Bala

@anthonyjdella it seems the promo code keeps expiring. Can you post one that doesn't expire?

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Kaleab Woldemariam

How do I join a Team?

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Nazmul • Edited

Twilio banned my account without any reason. I also emailed them but they don't responding. My email: nazmulislam2322@gmail.com

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Dhruv

@anthonyjdella can we not use Twilio for messaging without getting the number verified first?

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Ansh Saini

You can use the sandbox environment for developing and testing.
It does not require you to get a Twilio Phone Number