Show HN: AlternativesToSkype -Find best alternative to Skype, filter and compare

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Post by nikhil_twf » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 11:13 AM UTC

Show HN: AlternativesToSkype -Find best alternative to Skype, filter and compare
alternativestoskype.com

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Post by TowerTall » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 11:19 AM UTC

Can you add which one that can call any phone number?

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Post by drpossum » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 12:33 PM UTC

Cool putting teams at the top of that list but completely ignoring jitsi and no tags on self hosting. What makes this better than the autogenerated AI lists?

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Post by [deleted] » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 12:41 PM UTC

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Post by nikhil_twf » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 12:49 PM UTC

TowerTall wrote: post #2

Can you add which one that can call any phone number?

For calls check this: https://alternativestoskype.com/features/international-calls

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Post by nikhil_twf » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 12:51 PM UTC

drpossum wrote: post #3

Cool putting teams at the top of that list but completely ignoring jitsi and no tags on self hosting. What makes this better than the autogenerated AI lists?

Ah, completely missed jitsi. Adding it.

Anything else missing?

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Post by drpossum » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 4:20 PM UTC

nikhil_twf wrote: post #6

drpossum wrote: post #3

Cool putting teams at the top of that list but completely ignoring jitsi and no tags on self hosting. What makes this better than the autogenerated AI lists?

Ah, completely missed jitsi. Adding it. Anything else missing?

I appreciate you taking the time to go through these. It might take some leg work, but anything on privacy statements regarding data collection would be something I would filter on. That may be too ambiguous to do correctly, but what you have for "no account required" and "end to end encryption" (not sure if "point to point" is another good one) helps.

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Post by nikhil_twf » Mon, Mar 03, 2025, 7:00 PM UTC

drpossum wrote: post #3

Cool putting teams at the top of that list but completely ignoring jitsi and no tags on self hosting. What makes this better than the autogenerated AI lists?

Updated the list now with few more including Jits, check it out