Twilio has an incredible API

#1

Post by dickeytk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:51 AM UTC

I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours.

Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/

Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.

Twilio has an incredible API
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Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#2

Post by dickeytk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:52 AM UTC

I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours.

Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/

Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#3

Post by iamdave » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 5:58 AM UTC

dickeytk wrote: post #2

I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours. Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.

join.me is what I'm trying to get my company to replace webex with.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#4

Post by dickeytk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:01 AM UTC

iamdave wrote: post #3

dickeytk wrote: post #2

I made an entire conference call application in like 2 hours. Not for no reason though, I was unable to find a simple conference calling service. Typing 'simple conference calling' into google comes up with crap like this: http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.

join.me is what I'm trying to get my company to replace webex with.

I like it, very straightforward. It is screen sharing though, which isn't quite what I was looking for.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#5

Post by rokhayakebe » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:06 AM UTC

This is as simple is it gets.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#6

Post by dickeytk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:14 AM UTC

rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

This is as simple is it gets.

Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill.

Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#7

Post by aymeric » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

I wish Twilio was available in the rest of the world though...

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#8

Post by childoftv101 » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:17 AM UTC

dickeytk wrote: post #6

rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

This is as simple is it gets.

Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha

premium number is audio advert free?

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#9

Post by iamdave » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:19 AM UTC

dickeytk wrote: post #6

rokhayakebe wrote: post #5

This is as simple is it gets.

Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha

True story. A friend and I were two shakes of a salt shaker away from launching a business on top of Twilio using openVBX and a few other things.

There are tons of ideas out there in the mobile voice arena.

Re: Twilio has an incredible API

#10

Post by dickeytk » Tue, Sep 20, 2011, 6:20 AM UTC

childoftv101 wrote: post #8

dickeytk wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Trouble is offsetting the twilio bill. Getting money is the hardest UX problem ever, so I just decided to skip it as long as I can afford it haha

premium number is audio advert free?

From a UX perspective, it'd be great, unfortunately getting advertisers hooked into their system would need much more work than it took to actually build the project in the first place.

I was thinking of just putting it out for free until it got too expensive, then asking for donations and if that didn't make ends meet putting some restriction on such as advertisements or a time limit or something.