Audrey M. Roy

I won the Twilio+AppEngine contest with Price It By Phone, an app that lets you look up Amazon.com book prices by touch-tone phone.  Right now it's up and running at http://price-it.appspot.com.

If you try it and run into problems, please let me know!

My interview with Twilio is here. 

I like the Twilio API a lot.  It's the easiest-to-use API imaginable.  You set up your Twilio phone number with a URL to post to.  Then, when you call the phone number, Twilio sends a POST request to that URL with the caller phone # and the digits entered as parameters. 

They have a Twilio-AppEngine sample among their demo apps.  This is awesome.  As you can see, I'm back to really liking GAE again, a lot.

I'm putting a bit more time into Price-It and hoping to launch v2 soon.  Features that I want to put into it for sure:  support for ISBNs with Xs and any other chars that appear in them, user accounts, verifying your phone # before you're allowed to see your book lookup history, being able to delete your history.  Possible features to be added: integration with Amazon wish list, FB connect. 

Also, I want to make it look web2.0 shiny, with cute illustrations and bright, designed gradients.  Yes, I know that the dark, trippy background doesn't have mass appeal.  Sometimes I make art for the sake of making myself happy :)  View the page's source code to see how it's done.

If you have other feature ideas, I'd be interested in hearing them.