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Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by unixispower »

Zod666 wrote: post #15
unixispower wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I manually moderate the voicemails and run a script locally to build out a static site and upload it to Neocities. The site is relatively fresh (created within the past year); it just hasn't seen much traffic yet.

If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

I'm not really sure to be honest. The traffic today has me stepping away from work occasionally to process calls in little batches :) I would probably just streamline the moderation process to make it a bit easier. For various reasons I wouldn't want it to be completely automatic (for one I just like to listen to the messages).

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by bdavbdav »

Zod666 wrote: post #15
unixispower wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I manually moderate the voicemails and run a script locally to build out a static site and upload it to Neocities. The site is relatively fresh (created within the past year); it just hasn't seen much traffic yet.

If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

TTS, an LLM to vet them

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by piperswe »

Zod666 wrote: post #15
unixispower wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I manually moderate the voicemails and run a script locally to build out a static site and upload it to Neocities. The site is relatively fresh (created within the past year); it just hasn't seen much traffic yet.

If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

I would assume that it wasn't necessarily designed to blow up in popularity, but just to be a fun quirky webpage

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by nico »

unixispower wrote: post #19
nico wrote: post #17

Really cool, thank you for posting Are you using something like asterisk or FreeSWITCH to connect to the siptrunk? If so, do you have a backend for the dialplan? Would love to see the code if possible

For fun I self-host Asterisk at home, but I'm using a cheap VoIP provider (VoIP.ms) to take the burden of hosting for this project. The code that I did write to pull messages is just some boring API interfacing in a simple Python script: https://gitlab.com/unixispower/after-the-beep/-/blob/main/_u...

Awesome, thank you!

How do you like voip.ms? Any other providers you’d recommend?

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by PenguinCoder »

nico wrote: post #24
unixispower wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For fun I self-host Asterisk at home, but I'm using a cheap VoIP provider (VoIP.ms) to take the burden of hosting for this project. The code that I did write to pull messages is just some boring API interfacing in a simple Python script: https://gitlab.com/unixispower/after-the-beep/-/blob/main/_u...

Awesome, thank you! How do you like voip.ms? Any other providers you’d recommend?

Not OP, but I recommend and use sipstation. I moved from VoIP.ms because they often had troublesome outages. Sipstation has been reliable and a good value.

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by unixispower »

nico wrote: post #24
unixispower wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

For fun I self-host Asterisk at home, but I'm using a cheap VoIP provider (VoIP.ms) to take the burden of hosting for this project. The code that I did write to pull messages is just some boring API interfacing in a simple Python script: https://gitlab.com/unixispower/after-the-beep/-/blob/main/_u...

Awesome, thank you! How do you like voip.ms? Any other providers you’d recommend?

voip.ms has been pretty good. They got DDoS'ed shortly after I signed up which soured the experience for about a week, but I haven't had an issue for the 2 years I've been using them since. I like that they have a wiki that explains how to set up ATA devices for their service -- that's what sold me on them initially.

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by speps »

unixispower wrote: post #20
spxneo wrote: post #18

the voicemails are genuinely wholesome and theme of the 90s, i cracked up at the hot pockets one some more details about stack and implementation would be great too curious how this was built

Site is static built using Jekyll. Voicemail inbox is hosted using VoIP.ms. I pull the voicemails manually by running a Python script, edit the Markdown file that the script spits out to add a memo, then run another script to build and upload the site to Neocities. I thought about making a dedicated "app" for all of it, but why make it more complicated than it has to be. I manually moderate all the calls anyway, so I…

Any interesting ones you couldn't publish?

Re: Anonymous public voicemail inbox

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Post by internetter »

bdavbdav wrote: post #22
Zod666 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If the site blew up in popularity how would you plan to continue moderating the voicemails?

TTS, an LLM to vet them

Bad idea. The appeal of sites like this is the humanity of it. Don't take that away.
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