Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

#1

Post by _aes » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 12:12 PM UTC

Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record
calltorecord.com

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by _aes » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 12:15 PM UTC

hi HN! I put this together to toy around with some new technologies that I hadn't played with before.

It's a service for recording audio directly to 'the cloud' with any mobile phone.

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by aaronrc » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 12:56 PM UTC

_aes wrote: post #2

hi HN! I put this together to toy around with some new technologies that I hadn't played with before. It's a service for recording audio directly to 'the cloud' with any mobile phone.

Very nice. Now if you could email transcriptions of the recordings and use voice recognition to identify the call participants you'd be onto a winner :).

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by senko » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 1:20 PM UTC

Speaking as a technical user, I don't think I'd use your product for recording my voice. I can do that trivially with a voice recorder utility on any computer, or even my smartphone, for absolutely free, and probably with higher quality than a typical phone line can give me.

What I would consider using this is for having a voice contact form. If I deal with users who might be more accustomed to phoning someone instead of filling out web forms, I might tell them "you can call this number and give your suggestions, feeback, etc". Having an option of leaving a greeting message (and to inform them they're being recorded) would be nice.

If you're a developer, these are trivial to do with Twilio directly, but if people don't want to waste time reimplementing stuff they can outsource to you, it could be useful. There probably are other services which do exactly this, although I'm not aware of their names at the moment, as I hadn't had the need to use them yet.

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by _aes » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 1:41 PM UTC

senko wrote: post #4

Speaking as a technical user, I don't think I'd use your product for recording my voice. I can do that trivially with a voice recorder utility on any computer, or even my smartphone, for absolutely free, and probably with higher quality than a typical phone line can give me. What I would consider using this is for having a voice contact form. If I deal with users who might be more accustomed to phoning someone instea…

I agree it's a pretty niche application that most technical users wouldn't find a use for. Very interesting suggestion about a voice contact form. I agree it might be really useful for interacting with a less technical user base.

I'll probably make the service completely free if it doesn't see any uptake.

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by h6165 » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 2:15 PM UTC

I find your app great. I can imagine numerous users (at least in my country) who have don't use smart phones, don't know how to use recording functionality in mobile phones, and have too low bandwidths to upload recordings. For them and for me, its a simplifier.

p.s: my country = India

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by _aes » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 2:31 PM UTC

h6165 wrote: post #6

I find your app great. I can imagine numerous users (at least in my country) who have don't use smart phones, don't know how to use recording functionality in mobile phones, and have too low bandwidths to upload recordings. For them and for me, its a simplifier. p.s: my country = India

Thanks! I need to change my account to accept international calls to make sure that you can use it.

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by rokhayakebe » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 3:01 PM UTC

Call to tweet your audio message, "Hello, I am winning".

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

#9

Post by systemtrigger » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 4:02 PM UTC

I love how low you've made the pricing. You must be in the red after paying Twilio 1¢/minute inbound, 2¢/SMS and 2¢/minute outbound. Thanks!

iPhone limits the size of voice memos that I can email myself so for long memos I will use Call2Record.

Beautiful web design. Nice job.

Re: Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record

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Post by stanleydrew » Fri, Mar 11, 2011, 4:24 PM UTC

systemtrigger wrote: post #9

I love how low you've made the pricing. You must be in the red after paying Twilio 1¢/minute inbound, 2¢/SMS and 2¢/minute outbound. Thanks! iPhone limits the size of voice memos that I can email myself so for long memos I will use Call2Record. Beautiful web design. Nice job.

Just a note: we (Twilio) charge 2 cents per SMS now.