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This is absolutely tremendous, and I am already having a blast. Thank you! Only one point of frustration: There should be an obvious way to get variables from
by mcantor 16y ago
This is absolutely tremendous, and I am already having a blast. Thank you!
Only one point of frustration: There should be an obvious way to get variables from the call row. You can update the call row with the "Update Call Row" module in the "Outbound Campaigns" section, but there should be a "Reserve Variable From Call Row" module, too. Otherwise, it seems the only way to do it is to "Reserve Variable" for every one you want to use, and manually set them as pre-filled every single time you create a campaign, which is a hassle.
Also, $0.05 cents per minute feels kind of steep. You have a very novel and wonderful service, though, so maybe it isn't such a big problem. It was so easy and intuitive to make a demo app, assign it to a number after I registered and watch things coming together. You guys are Doing It Right. Kudos, kudos!
One more thing... it'd be nice if there was an easy way to filter outbound calls on whether the person has already been called, according to whether the "outbound_result" field in their row is populated. There's a filter option "is..." that lets you select between "present" and "not present," but it's not clear whether that means "empty" or "is not even a hash key for that row," or if those two things are even different.
Oh, and for God's sake, make sure you block requests on your site that have "4chan" as a referrer... ;-)
- pak 16y agoThese are all great points. Re: filtering, this needs to be better documented, agreed. "present"==="field exists for row, with any value". There's a distinction between empty grey and empty white cells that we tried to make but it may not be apparent to non-programmers. Re: price, we are only a couple cents/min higher than what other barebones API providers are charging. But we are obviously much more than an API service. Hosting all apps in their entirety, along with slick web-based tools to build them, is the extra value we are hoping to provide.
- barrkel 16y agoA "couple of cents" up to 5 cents implies charging 66% more.