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startledmarmot

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About startledmarmot

Founder/CTO at SignalWire

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    Comment #34267239

    Hey! I'd naturally recommend SignalWire (as one of the founders over there.) We have a full messaging + voice + video APIs, including a Twilio-compatible API just for people who ne…

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    Comment #28624872

    Realtime applications. Anything having to do with video & audio mixing or interaction (WebRTC, VoIP, AR/XR, NLU, Gaming, etc...) Having those as close to the end consumers as possi…

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    Comment #22359017

    Have you taken a look at SignalWire instead of Twilio? Syntax-compatible XML, less price gouging so might be able to help offset some of the costs to make these products even more …

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    Comment #22293452

    I'd also love to help out on this! We power exactly this kind of voice + transcription + voice application platform stuff at SignalWire and it'd be rad if there was a way we could …

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    Comment #7731384

    Truthfully, regarding call connect charges, ringback, per-minute fees, etc... I don't think many folks think much about the fact that a lot of the business and billing decisions dr…

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    Comment #7731211

    It really boils down to money. When the call connects, somebody gets charged. Perhaps both of you do -- you lose a minute on your cellphone bill, and the school gets charged a minu…

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    Comment #7731192

    The U.S. market for straight ringback tones was really hampered by lack of competent marketing, poor (and as josh2600 said: annoyingly over-complicated, Telecom-mentality driven) i…

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