Ten days ago the regular HackFMI competition was held. This year they tried sending SMS notifications to all participants which was powered by Twilio both in terms of infrastructure and cost.
Twilio provided a 20$ upgrade code valid in the next 6 months for all new accounts. This was officially announced at the opening ceremony (although at the last possible time) of the competition, however no teams decided to incorporate SMS/Voice into their games. I'm a little disappointed by this fact.
In terms of software a simple Django app was used. It is by no means production ready but does the job and was quick to write.
A little over 300 messages were sent with number distribution as follows:
- Mtel - 166
- Globul - 86
- Vivacom - 50
The total price for Mtel and Globul messages is roughly the same because sending SMS to Globul via Twilio is as twice expensive. The total sums up to about 25 $. HackFMI team used two accounts to send the messages - one using the provided 20$ upgrade code from Twilio and the second one was mine.
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