Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
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Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
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Re: Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
#2This sounds crazy, but I'd have a small worry that giving out your CEO's personal phone number exposes potential attacks against other services that use the phone number as a token. Like:
(1) Do you have a store-loyalty program at CVS? Can I use your number when I buy stuff and get your coupons?
(2) Can I re-set your Amazon.com password using live chat with customer support by convincing them that I know your name and phone number and must therefore be you? Or can I at least have some of your recent orders declared missing and re-delivered to my house?
(3) Can I use your phone number in spoof caller ID then call an airline who auto-recognizes the incoming phone number and reveals info about the traveler's flights?
(4) Can I reorder prescriptions or learn about prescription drugs using your name and phone number?
Just some thoughts. Because a personal phone number is often not common knowledge outside of one's friends and acquaintances, third parties sometimes give it unreasonable importance.
Re: Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
#3They don't readily advertise it, but the cost appears to be $15 per month (per number ?).
Re: Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
#4This sounds crazy, but I'd have a small worry that giving out your CEO's personal phone number exposes potential attacks against other services that use the phone number as a token. Like: (1) Do you have a store-loyalty program at CVS? Can I use your number when I buy stuff and get your coupons? (2) Can I re-set your Amazon.com password using live chat with customer support by convincing them that I know your name an…
You are very correct. =c) This is why I won't be using that line as a security number in any case (but you can have my coupons, sure, I don't mind). I have another line for that. I'm glad someone else also thought of that.
Re: Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
#5I've been using very similar features of Google Voice for several years and I have to say it's been GREAT. I can't imagine going back to a regular number.
I sincerely hope Phone Janitor can compete in that space, I'd love to see what improvements can be made and what new features may result from the differing perspectives.
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#6What about calling out? I know with GV you can dial your GV number to dial the number you actually want to call (So the recipient sees your GV number in their caller ID). It was a little cumbersome, but it worked. Does PJ have something like this?
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#7They don't readily advertise it, but the cost appears to be $15 per month (per number ?).
https://phonejanitor.com/faq.html#general-price
"We charge a simple $15 per line per month. No hidden fees, no hidden limits. Even our Terms are written to be human readable."
Re: Phone Janitor – Take control of your phone number
#8I've been using very similar features of Google Voice for several years and I have to say it's been GREAT . I can't imagine going back to a regular number. I sincerely hope Phone Janitor can compete in that space, I'd love to see what improvements can be made and what new features may result from the differing perspectives.
You can filter calls in Google Voice?
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#9I like the control. I wouldn't use it.
Why? The CEO of PhoneJanitor is no longer reachable by a bunch of people in ways that I find useful. The associated at the VC firm that wants to follow up on funding this company? Denied. The CVS courtesy number reminding him his prescription is ready for pickup? Never gets through. His wife borrows a friends phone after hers dies? Can't even leave a voicemail.
It's one way to deal with spam and cold calls, but there's a real cost to these limits.
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#10Other commenters have touched on this as well, but I'd be really interested in seeing a breakdown comparison between this and GV. Clearly they're different, but I'd be interested in explicitly seeing what PJ is not. Really cool idea, though. Not sure I need it right now, but bookmarked.
On a superficial note, the website looks like it was thrown together in minutes, and I think it's actually really refreshing. It honestly grabbed my attention more than a bootstrap site with a full window background image and a snarky tagline overlaid. No cheesy stock photos and disruption talk, just paragraph tags and bullet points. Kudos.