Looks promising, though it needs a workflow for when potential customers click the link and you show as busy. What then? They aren't going to sit and refresh every 5 minutes waiting for you to get free.
Show HN: OnAir – create link, receive calls
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#42A small thing that might be useful: allow users to get a regular phone number to call. Most users probably won't need it, some will, and when they need it and there's no number, it's extremely frustrating for the (potential or current) customer. Example: in most cases, I don't have a microphone or headset on my office desktop PC (don't need it, we don't do zooms), have very slow internet access on my smartphone (forg…
Why does that need to be part of the app? You can just put a phone number on your website next to the call button.
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#43Earlier quoted context omitted.
If the creator has the app (onair.io/ios , onair.io/android), they would receive notifications there and can take the call. Also, if a browser is open when someone calls them, they would also receive notifications there as well.
Is there a way the creator can mark their availability on the app? May be on a calendar?
Yes. You can set yourself `always online`, or `always offline`, or `scheduled`. In the last one, you specify hours in the day (e.g. 9am-5pm), and sync with external calendar (currently Google Calendar) which marks you as offline when you're busy.
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#44Looks promising, though it needs a workflow for when potential customers click the link and you show as busy. What then? They aren't going to sit and refresh every 5 minutes waiting for you to get free.
Agreed. For now, you can customize the offline message, such as saying "I'm typically online 12pm-4pm on Mon/Tue", or alternatively, drop a Calendly link or your email.
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#45A small thing that might be useful: allow users to get a regular phone number to call. Most users probably won't need it, some will, and when they need it and there's no number, it's extremely frustrating for the (potential or current) customer. Example: in most cases, I don't have a microphone or headset on my office desktop PC (don't need it, we don't do zooms), have very slow internet access on my smartphone (forg…
Why does that need to be part of the app? You can just put a phone number on your website next to the call button.
actually I'm curious about how to get a business-related phone number like this? Does Google Voice do this, but also support round-robin, transcriptions, and webhooks?
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#46> E-Commerce store owners... are not responding as expected... Ideas are welcome.
What about audience engagement for streamers? my first thought when I saw this was oldschool public access "phone in" shows.
of course, a different usecase demands a different featureset (like, delay, moderation, OBS integration...
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#47Jitsi Meet ( https://meet.jit.si ) has been doing this job for me for a few years and I'm pretty happy with it. Easy to self-host too.
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#48Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why does that need to be part of the app? You can just put a phone number on your website next to the call button.
actually I'm curious about how to get a business-related phone number like this? Does Google Voice do this, but also support round-robin, transcriptions, and webhooks?
You don't need a fancy service for this. Every phone operator supports it out of the box.
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#49A small thing that might be useful: allow users to get a regular phone number to call. Most users probably won't need it, some will, and when they need it and there's no number, it's extremely frustrating for the (potential or current) customer. Example: in most cases, I don't have a microphone or headset on my office desktop PC (don't need it, we don't do zooms), have very slow internet access on my smartphone (forg…
Why does that need to be part of the app? You can just put a phone number on your website next to the call button.
We actually do that. We have just released a web widget which maps to your current phone number IVR or voice bot flow. Have put a quick link on our web site at the bottom left corner, not clean ,but works :)
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#50Had launched something like this in 2016. We had called it as ering.me, so you could have an url like ering.me/handle. Used it in email signatures, web calling etc. It didn't pick up at that time or we didn't market enough :)
Hope the market is mature now and products like this succeed. All the best.