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Comment by tomjen3 | Hacker News Reader

Ok, next time could you indicate that you use a restricted service in you headline so those of us who can't get Twillo can skip reading about it?

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One could always just use a Twilio equivalence in your country. Twilio might look easy, but it's just as easy rolling your own with something like Adhearsion. Just sign up for some cheap origination/termination services and you're ready to roll your own twilio service. I use iCall for origination & VoipJet for termination here in the US; my asterisk & adhearsion stack runs on a small cloud server at rackspacecloud.

Any other disclosures I should add about my startup? Oh, you have to pay for the API too... OMFGBBQAFKBFF4EVA

we are working on international support, stay tuned

International support isn't the issue, the issue is that you won't let non-americans sign up.

And yes, I am running a vendetta against discriminatory start-ups. The internet doesn't care about borders and if you do, you don't deserve to be on it.

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time to write a blog post about this... these "vendettas" from people outside the U.S. against startups that won't let you sign up so annoying. Maybe you should channel all that energy towards convincing your own country to make it easier for us to operate businesses within your borders... the limited resources of a startup have to be carefully spent, and thinking about foreign exchange, taxes, and laws (especially on stuff like telecom) is not a small undertaking

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