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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.
The header of your blog has a link without the www subdomin. It doesn't work.
The 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.)
My grandmother did the exact same thing, again without issue.
I am thinking that the market for people doing this is finite and limited, but there is likely money to be made on making a clean experience (versus Google Voice) serving the ever dwindling population of people who actually have land lines.
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.
Tropo is driving your costs up, compared to people with real servers running SER and similar call routers.
More seriously, I'm familiar with the Tropo API and know that no matter what direction this product goes, Tropo is a capable platform to build it on.
Landlines have long been killed. Unless you didn't notice, Magic Jack killed 'em. It is much cheaper and it just works. You have to be really crazy to be paying $48 for the landlines.
For people that use the phone a lot, and need something that just works, this isn't true. My parents use their home phone quite a bit, and the $25/month they pay for it is worth it. I'd set them up with voip to save money, but I have tried voip setups, and even with qos I haven't been impressed with the audio quality when other people are on the internet.
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You keep reposting the same comment. GV has roughly 1% penetration, thus your circle friends/family is statistically highly unusual. Given the technology profile of your friends and family you should not trust your instincts for estimating market demand.
Source? And what makes your circle of friends/family any more reliable than mine?
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Tropo is driving your costs up, compared to people with real servers running SER and similar call routers.
I work on the devops team for Voxeo Labs, the company behind Tropo, so I resent the implication that we don't have real servers. :-) More seriously, I'm familiar with the Tropo API and know that no matter what direction this product goes, Tropo is a capable platform to build it on.
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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.
I had to login just reply to this... Google Voice is used by all kinds of people. I can think of at least ten people over the age of 50 in my family alone who use it. Hell, my 81 year old grandfather has a GV account that forwards his old landline to his cell. Almost every one of my non-tech friends uses it as well.
Everyone 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 a…