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Show HN: Call emails, not phones

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Re: Show HN: Call emails, not phones

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post #30

Make it paid, and you might have a fighting chance with executives and salespeople. Executives get cold-called AND cold-emailed by terrible salespeople all the time. Know why? Both media are essentially free. Paying would create a much-needed quality barrier in these irreplaceable but miserable media. Free isn't always better...how are you planning to make money anyway?

Interesting, thanks.

The registered email address getting the redirection to it's own phone pays for that service by the minute... at a rate comparable to SkypeOut. This is TollFree at really great rate.

Oh, did I mention, once you have an account, you can also dial out to normal phone number using simple URLs again... and pay for that. But this is really an add-on.

Re: Show HN: Call emails, not phones

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post #32

Can I register and still get callers to leave voice mail? How about using an alias instead of my email in the url?

Allowing voicemails when registered: #1 requested feature. allow us another day or 2 :-)

About the alias, we are considering it as as great idea also. But we want to keep it simple for now.

Re: Show HN: Call emails, not phones

#35

What 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.

We check the browser agent not to be IE or Safari. Strange, will try to figure this out.

Re: Show HN: Call emails, not phones

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post #3

Dialzoo 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 don't think it's going to work. google had gvoice for years and marketed it with free phone calls and voicemails, and it didn't take off. i had a similar project 5~6 years ago, which fell apart. my conclusion is that free call is not attractive at all to general public. if you are competing again telcomms (excluding MIM apps), you need a product that is 10x better, and "free" is not a magic word. or, find your nich…

> my conclusion is that free call is not attractive at all to general public

Well Google has the free calling built into Gmail and Hangouts now so I wouldn't be so sure about that.

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