PHLO – Visually integrate Voice and SMS into your apps in minutes
Plivo unveils the public beta of PHLO, a visual way to integrate voice and text messaging into applications and design workflows collaboratively.
PHLO – Visually integrate Voice and SMS into your apps in minutes launched on August 10, 2018 with 17 votes, #867 of 2,619 launches that month and more than 75% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 8 years on.
In plain words
PHLO is a visual workflow design tool for integrating voice and SMS messaging into applications. Developers can build communication features using a drag-and-drop interface rather than writing code, enabling collaborative design and rapid deployment. The tool is aimed at developers who want to add calling and text messaging capabilities to their apps without extensive coding, with the key advantage being its visual approach that simplifies what traditionally required working with communication APIs.
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From the sources
Plivo unveils the public beta of PHLO, a visual way to integrate voice and text messaging into applications and design workflows collaboratively. Developers innovate at a fast pace. To help developers build voice and text messaging communication into applications, we’re unveiling the public beta of PHLO (Plivo High-Level Objects) , a new visual way of integrating communications that empowers developers to design collaboratively, build visually, and deploy instantly. Although communication APIs have simplified the process, building communication capabilities into business applications is still a complex task for developers. We saw a need to simplify it. PHLO takes a visual drag-and-drop…from plivo.com
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