Not bad for a Startup Weekend project! Congrats to Philip and team. It'll be neat to see if this can turn into something self-sustaining!
Show HN: Kill The Landline
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#42Everyone that's saying Google Voice: You can't port landlines easily to GV. It was my first thought too but did some research and turns out they don't support it directly.
Now: To pull this off you need to make it super simple and intuitive. I want to come to your site with inviting colors, a clean layout, and a very clear call to action and easy signup. This should be so easy and inviting that I will want to do it again after I'm done. This is where good design comes into play. If you make it hard, the copy hard to understand, a pricing plan that is confusing and not straightforward, then it will scare people off. Your biggest chance of success is a UI that is so easy to use it's mindless and "just works."
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#43I remember hearing a landline is useful in case of emergencies. Something about emergency services are able to connect it to an address quickly. Also a landline is less likely to get clogged and drop your call in case of mass emergency.
Are these still the case? i don't know but i keep my landline active. It's insurance I guess.
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#44I remember hearing a landline is useful in case of emergencies. Something about emergency services are able to connect it to an address quickly. Also a landline is less likely to get clogged and drop your call in case of mass emergency. Are these still the case? i don't know but i keep my landline active. It's insurance I guess.
One of the advantages of a landline in emergencies is that landline phones don't require their own electricity or batteries to operate.
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#45Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
The average person doesn't know Google Voice exists. This product is marketing to people who likely have never heard of GVoice.
Do you have a cite for GV awareness?
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#46The greatest strength of the landline is that fact that it will still be up during a power outage. (Just make sure to use a corded phone, cordless uses power.)
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#47Given the easy availability of alternatives, this feels extremely scammy. $10/month plus 8 centers per minute after 100 minutes? What a fucking ripoff. This project deserves to fail, it's nothing more than an attempt at exploitation.
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#48Hi, this is Brian, one of the Kill The Landline developers. We're working on this right now at Startup Weekend in Columbia, Missouri and really welcome all the feedback you can provide on our idea! We have a blog at http://blog.killthelandline.com/ with a short survey you can fill out as well as more details about the origin of the idea.
Hey, your blog header links to http://killthelandline.com, which doesn't work.
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#49I remember hearing a landline is useful in case of emergencies. Something about emergency services are able to connect it to an address quickly. Also a landline is less likely to get clogged and drop your call in case of mass emergency. Are these still the case? i don't know but i keep my landline active. It's insurance I guess.
One of the advantages of a landline in emergencies is that landline phones don't require their own electricity or batteries to operate.
Interestingly, the Verizon FiOS landline that I got for free with my TV/internet package has a battery backup because it does require electricity. That is definitely true of traditional land lines, though.
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#50Earlier quoted context omitted.
One of the advantages of a landline in emergencies is that landline phones don't require their own electricity or batteries to operate.
Interestingly, the Verizon FiOS landline that I got for free with my TV/internet package has a battery backup because it does require electricity. That is definitely true of traditional land lines, though.
Yes, copper. :)