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Honestly, Twilio's API is so well done I don't believe my code is worth anything. However, it's available here: https://github.com/dickeytk/callinwithus for anyone to take a look at if they're curious how it works.
Thank you so much for sharing the code. <3
This is as simple is it gets.
Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha
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Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha
What about starting everyone off with a balance of say $5-10, and running it down after the first call with an option to top up via PayPal once over?
I wish Twilio was available in the rest of the world though...
What I don't understand is why it costs 2x-4x more than a regular phone contract gives you.
One day America's companies will discover that outside its borders there are, literally, billions of people.. imagine that.
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Take a look at Tropo — in my opinion it's better than Twilio, not least because scripts can be written in Ruby and hosted on Tropo, and has (or had) much better international support.
I do like that they don't charge dev rates, but it does cost 3x as much in production. And twilio works great with ruby, callinwith.us is a rails app. Although if I needed international support I guess that would be an issue. Being a naive American has some perks though.
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I do like that they don't charge dev rates, but it does cost 3x as much in production. And twilio works great with ruby, callinwith.us is a rails app. Although if I needed international support I guess that would be an issue. Being a naive American has some perks though.
We've got great coverage for voice in countries all over the world: http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates You can both call to those countries and receive calls from them. We also just recently added local numbers in the UK in beta ( http://www.twilio.com/uk-voice ), which is just touching on the surface of what will be coming outside the US. You've got my email now so we can get international cal…
Twilio: "Twilio does not offer phone numbers from outside the US and Canada, and you can’t port international numbers to Twilio." http://www.twilio.com/faq/international
Tropo: "We offer local numbers in the US and 40 other countries - here's the full list of available countries, note that these are also free for developer accounts" https://www.tropo.com/docs/scripting/international_dialing_s...
If the link is opened with the code already set, instead of showing "Your conference room is good to go!" show "We are waiting for you!" or something like that.
This way you can send the link instead of copy-pasting the instructions.
I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours. Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.
Here's a take on it that uses Twilio Client to allow people to join from the browser as well as the phone http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us I'll see if I can get Aaron in here to give out a few beta codes
(btw it's currently browser only, but when it goes publicly available it'll be both)
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Here's a take on it that uses Twilio Client to allow people to join from the browser as well as the phone http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us I'll see if I can get Aaron in here to give out a few beta codes
I saw that one, and it looks great. Definitely the best thing out there I could find. My two problems though: 1. It's in private beta. 2. Not sure I the dinosaur theme is something I would want outside clients to see, although I personally think they're hilarious.
I'm in the process of making it an actual product, including rebranding it. Still with a dinosaur theme for now, but more like http://docraptor.com in terms of professionalism. If people use it, I might rebranded it yet again based on feedback.
I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours. Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.