Awesome well done @hme Big fan of services that plug into your own billing system (rather than acting as a proxy).
Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
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#42Shameless plug (UK only): https://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/call-handling/divert-forwa...
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#43Is this like DNS for a Twilio number? That's what I get. If I misunderstand could you fill out more, as if so this could be useful for contingency planning.
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#44Earlier quoted context omitted.
Op got downvoted a lot (and perhaps deserves it because of the tone of his post) but makes a valid point. This is nothing like dropbox. This is barely a hello world app on the Twilio platform. I have little doubt he could write a tutorial to walk people through it in an hour two two. This would be a good analogy if you dropbox was literally just provisioning a user and setting an FTP password. And if it was, Dropbox…
It's actually a feature. It saved you one day of your life. And if this free service just disappears some day, you are just one day away to build your own. You got your number from Twilio, there is no lock-in.
Personally if I built this I would probably open source it. Then anyone can run it. Although I suspect this is just a marketing ploy for http://aworldforus.com/ or they built it for their own use and decided to release it.
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
>>knowing the Twilio API and looking at this design I think someone could build this in about a day. I don't want to shit on the idea, but with the amount of "build this thing with twilio" content twilio puts out, the benefit of this is saving the time of setting something similar up for yourself.
Don't get me wrong, I wasn't trying to debate buy vs. build. Although if I was going to buy there are much more robust services also built on-top of Twilio. Just the op asked "what makes this different" and I was pointing out that the barrier of entry is very low. With that said, if you already know the Twilio API and you already know AWS Lambda + API Gateway + DynamoDB it might be worth it to build because: 1. It wo…
>> It is a lot of fun... especially for a developer who usually lives in a web browser... to be able to call a phone number and hear the result of your code.
That really is the key. I've built some stuff with twilio simply because the delivery method of my code is somewhat unique.
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#46Is this like DNS for a Twilio number? That's what I get. If I misunderstand could you fill out more, as if so this could be useful for contingency planning.
It's more like DNS using Twilio. It's analogous to Google Voice.
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#47Isn't this exactly what Google Voice does?
Yes, it is.
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#48Shameless plug (UK only): https://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/call-handling/divert-forwa...
I don't understand how you make money, which makes it look like there's going to be hidden costs. If I start at https://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/memorable-business-number/... and choose, for example, a revenue generating number then go to the payment it says I get a free number that diverts to my phone for no up-front cost and zero monthly fee. So how does that work for you?
Ah, hang on the slide-away at the side says £10, whilst the "STEP 5" says £0. Looks like there might be an issue with your business logic?
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Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#49Shameless plug (UK only): https://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/call-handling/divert-forwa...
I don't understand how you make money, which makes it look like there's going to be hidden costs. If I start at https://www.windsor-telecom.co.uk/memorable-business-number/... and choose, for example, a revenue generating number then go to the payment it says I get a free number that diverts to my phone for no up-front cost and zero monthly fee. So how does that work for you? Ah, hang on the slide-away at the side sa…
On that particular number type the caller pays to call so we take a cut of the call charge, hence revenue generating. Also, only the one and two star numbers are free.
Which combo did you select to get the £10 and £0?
Re: Show HN: A virtual phone number for your company based on Twilio
#50Twilio has something called "Twimlets" that make setting this up very very simple. For voicemail you simply have to create a separate "twimlet" and have the resulting URL attached to the other one you use for the forwarding.