A bug: I clicked "SEND VOICEMAIL" multiple times and it sent a bunch of emails to my test address.
Thanks, it's in our bug list now.
Show HN: Call emails, not phones
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#12Where is the part that says this service is not going to use the obtained email addresses for spamming?
That's not a guarantee they can make, since they're suggesting you share the link that contains your email address in order for people to call you. To be honest, I'm more comfortable giving out my phone number than my primary contact email address. On the other hand, it's much easier to set up a throwaway email than a throwaway phone number.
Right,
Dialzoo does not share email addresses publicly.
But it's to the users of the service to share their dialzoo url including their email. Like http://dialzoo/your@email.com
Our assumption is that people would use email that are consider public info already, and share that.
Perhaps this is more relevant for public profiles such as - business website - public social profiles like linkedin. - facebook - google +
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#13Dialzoo allows you to hide your phone number and get called for Free. It also allows to send voicemails to any email address in a click. Let me know what you think ? SebP
I get audio files of messages people leave me on MagicJack. I think this is something similar.
I communicate with someone consistently who does not like to type. So, you may have a good use case.
Your website has 90s look. It gives a look of a shaddy service. Doesn't look serious or even professional.
That is what I think. You asked for it.
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#14Great Idea, I like it. Just afraid I might start getting 'telemarketing' emails ... aw well ;-)
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#15What is being used in your app to check browser versions?
I'm using Firefox Nightly (34.0a1) and it says that my browser doesn't support WebRTC, when it most definitely does.
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#16Dialzoo allows you to hide your phone number and get called for Free. It also allows to send voicemails to any email address in a click. Let me know what you think ? SebP
I get audio files of messages people leave me on MagicJack. I think this is something similar. I communicate with someone consistently who does not like to type. So, you may have a good use case. Your website has 90s look. It gives a look of a shaddy service. Doesn't look serious or even professional. That is what I think. You asked for it.
Hehe, I was looking for that :-)
Is it the pictures, or all the rest ?
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#17This was super-confusing, at least to me.
It uses the noun "email", which to me means "an email message", as if it meant "an email address".
I found it very annoying and confusing. Perhaps I'm just old, though.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
I get audio files of messages people leave me on MagicJack. I think this is something similar. I communicate with someone consistently who does not like to type. So, you may have a good use case. Your website has 90s look. It gives a look of a shaddy service. Doesn't look serious or even professional. That is what I think. You asked for it.
Hehe, I was looking for that :-) Is it the pictures, or all the rest ?
Look, if your service is useful enough, it will get traction even if you have no website to boot. That has been the reality of supply and demand since ages.
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#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
That's not a guarantee they can make, since they're suggesting you share the link that contains your email address in order for people to call you. To be honest, I'm more comfortable giving out my phone number than my primary contact email address. On the other hand, it's much easier to set up a throwaway email than a throwaway phone number.
Right, Dialzoo does not share email addresses publicly. But it's to the users of the service to share their dialzoo url including their email. Like http://dialzoo/your@email.com Our assumption is that people would use email that are consider public info already, and share that. Perhaps this is more relevant for public profiles such as - business website - public social profiles like linkedin. - facebook - google +
Is the point of the service to allow anyone to send voicemail to any email address? Or is it for people who own the email address to allow anyone to voicemail them?
Because in the latter case (which is what I think the service is), you could make the users register their email address (using a verification email to ensure they do not register someone else email without their consent) in your service and then have a map from a random hash to the email, allowing you to provide urls looking like dialzoo.com/nzef1824Ldaw68873 rather than forcing user to publish their email in clear. Or even require a username and use that for the URL.
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Is WebRTC a fully baked spec though? I was under the assumption that it's still experimental.
If you know the interest is there, Flash is often used as a fallback for WebRTC things. I mean, yeah, there's a "spec" for Flash, but that doesn't solve things for iOS users either.