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Co-founder here: We are an active team at Startup Weekend Columbia. We pitch tomorrow afternoon here's more about our company: http://blog.killthelandline.com/post/32529411766/about-us We are using Tropo with Heroku for the MVP.
http://plivo.com/pricing/ (Disclaimer: I was in the same YC batch as Plivo. I do really like the service compared to Twilio or Tropo.)
The site looks good and the idea is useful to me. So useful that I wanted to sign up, but I really can't stand clicking "Sign Up Now" and being told "oops, we're not ready for you." If you're not ready, don't have a sign up button.
I was under the impression that Canadian telcos were worse than American ones, but a landline here usually doesn't cost more than $25/mo ...
To those of you saying "But Google Voice does this!", realize that most people outside of HN/the tech community don't know this.
Anybody who signs up for GV is asked if they want to hook up existing numbers to it. It's part of the signup process.
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Yep, this is a totally pointless product. It might've made sense a few years ago, but ever since Google Voice has been out, this has been possible for free.
I disagree. Nobody outside the tech community knows that Google Voice exists, let alone how to use it. This has solid branding (esp. the name) and good messaging. The price might be a little high for what it's doing, but if the idea is to eventually phase out your landline number, this could be a good way of doing it.
Almost every one of my non-tech friends uses it as well.
To those of you saying "But Google Voice does this!", realize that most people outside of HN/the tech community don't know this.
$10 a month just to forward calls from an old number? Why would I not just port that number to Google Voice, then forward my GV calls to my cell phone, all for a grand total of FREE?
You would do just that. I doubt, however, this website is targeted at the Hacker News crowd. If my inlaws wanted to get rid of their landline and get individual cell phones and needed their old number to transfer out, they wouldn't port their number to Google Voice and then forward from Google Voice to their cell phone. I'm also not sure if paying $10 / month is attractive to consumers, but that's just speculation!
Interesting. I'm trying to get my parents to drop their Charter landline - which, yes, is $40/mo, and yes, they both have cell phones - but they haven't wanted to because it'd be difficult to get everyone to change the numbers. I think the biggest aspect of this is the "redirect to two numbers" - my parents would love that, since they would both be able to get the messages. How does it handle voicemail, though? It ca…
I would immediately recommend a service like this.
Interesting. I'm trying to get my parents to drop their Charter landline - which, yes, is $40/mo, and yes, they both have cell phones - but they haven't wanted to because it'd be difficult to get everyone to change the numbers. I think the biggest aspect of this is the "redirect to two numbers" - my parents would love that, since they would both be able to get the messages. How does it handle voicemail, though? It ca…
I can't imagine trying to explain Google Voice to my parents.