Inspiration
This idea was mostly born out of a joke that turned serious; now it's the subject of this hackathon.
What it does
It allows you to build plugins to talk to anything you like over SMS, simply by dropping .js files in the plugins directory.
How we built it
We used twilio to handle the SMS stuff (sorry esendex guy </3) and built a pretty simple plugin loader in node.js to load in the plugins. The plugins accept the standard twilio request and response as arguments.
Challenges we ran into
node.js is really weird
Accomplishments that we're proud of
We managed to get core functionality and the plugin system working in a couple of hours, leaving us lots of time to build some cool demo stuff.
What we learned
node.js is really weird but seriously, we learned a lot about node.js, including better understanding how promises work, some superglobals, etc.
What's next for TextEverything
We plan to write a web frontend to allow users to download and upload plugins to their instance of the server. A lot of the code needs refactoring, so we'll do that too
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