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It's funny to me to see "was cool" and "amazing this is still alive", because I absolutely love Asterisk. I cut my teeth building Freepbx boxes at a small/mid b
by apotatopot 7y ago
It's funny to me to see "was cool" and "amazing this is still alive", because I absolutely love Asterisk. I cut my teeth building Freepbx boxes at a small/mid business voip provider in college before moving on to a different field.
To give an idea why I think it is so cool, my podcast offers neat things to folks who call in to leave a voicemail. You can listen to entire podcast episodes, explore a crude phone sound "museum", and if you're a subscriber to the podcast you are given the password to our party line, where you can talk to our hosts and other subscribers. I'm also building a choose your own adventure type game on our phone system using IVRs and things for our top tier subscribers to play.
We're not a phone-centric podcast, but it's super easy supplemental content to provide folks for cheap. It's also currently running in the raspberrypi specific release http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/ http://www.raspberry-asterisk.org/
There are other folks who absolutely rely on Asterisk for their shows, some that have been around forever, like the Phone Losers of America Snow Plow Show.
- RIMR 7y agoI use Asterisk to tie a bunch of my shit together. I even have little burner phones that can do all sorts of cool things thanks to modern SIMs and VoIP tech. What's your podcast? I'll bookmark it for later.
- apotatopot 7y agoThat's awesome. I've been toying with the idea of setting up things like that. My next little project is setting up sms support so folks can text in. My podcast is Accidentally Fasting. Again, not related to tech at all, but I get to play around with this stuff since it's such an open format. Thanks for checking us out! https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidentally-fasting/id1448616485 https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/accidentally-fasting/i... https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/accidentally-fasting https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/accidentally-fasting