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Twilio has an incredible API
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.
- dickeytk 15y agoI 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/ http://www.freeconferencecall.com/ Anything good out there? I can't be the first guy to make one.
- iamdave 15y agojoin.me is what I'm trying to get my company to replace webex with.
- dickeytk 15y agoI like it, very straightforward. It is screen sharing though, which isn't quite what I was looking for.
- jeffiel 15y agoVery cool! Are you coming to the Twilio Conference this week? If not, would love to have you in the audience. Ping me: jeff@twilio.com
- johns 15y agoHere's a take on it that uses Twilio Client to allow people to join from the browser as well as the phone http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us http://www.twilio.com/gallery/projects/talkasaur-us I'll see if I can get Aaron in here to give out a few beta codes
- dickeytk 15y agoI saw that one, and it looks great. Definitely the best thing out there I could find. My two problems though: 1. It's in private beta. 2. Not sure I the dinosaur theme is something I would want outside clients to see, although I personally think they're hilarious.
- aaronlerch 15y agoThanks! The current Dino theme was intentionally silly because it was for a contest. :) I'm in the process of making it an actual product, including rebranding it. Still with a dinosaur theme for now, but more like http://docraptor.com http://docraptor.com in terms of professionalism. If people use it, I might rebranded it yet again based on feedback.
- aaronlerch 15y agoThanks John- I'll give out talkasaur.us codes to anybody who wants one. :) I made it for a twilio contest, and just didn't feel like personally funding the entire Internet's conference calls just yet. :) email me at aaronlerch at gmail for a code. (btw it's currently browser only, but when it goes publicly available it'll be both)
- aaronlerch 15y agoMeh, screw it. http://talkasaur.us/ http://talkasaur.us/ access code: "rexy" Have at it. :)
- dangrossman 15y agoAside from old cluttered websites, what's wrong with sites like that? Does the website really matter if all you use it for is to get the number to start a conference call, for free?
- antoncohen 15y ago>Aside from old cluttered websites, what's wrong with sites like that? Does the website really matter if all you use it for is to get the number to start a conference call, for free? Everything is wrong with them, they are a scam, it's called "traffic pumping" [1]. Google Voice and other VoIP providers will block calls to those numbers. Free conference call services like freeconferencecall.com have local US numbers in high tariff rural areas, usually in Iowa (like the 712 area code). To you the call is "free" because you have Free Nationwide Long Distance. But your phone company has to pay ridiculous rates, as if it was a 900 number, like over $1/min. If you don't have free long distance, than you have to pay those rates. The Local Exchange Carries in those rural areas have contracts with these scam companies, giving them a take of the money. Or the LECs run the scam businesses themselves. Legitimate businesses and consumers are being ripped off. The legit phone companies are required by law to route your call there, and they are required to pay the ridiculous fees. [1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traffic_pumping
- cjoh 15y agoHow is this a scam? FreeConferenceCall.com isn't lying to anybody. It seems like it's taking advantage of a regulation to charge telecom companies rather than consumers for a free service. With poor customer service, really anti-consumer behavior in Washington, all benefiting in part by government granted and supported monopolies, I have a hard time feeling sorry for large national telecom companies having to give some of their money to local carriers in Iowa, and the companies smart enough to partner up with them.
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- rokhayakebe 15y agoThis is as simple is it gets.
- dickeytk 15y agoTrouble 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
- childoftv101 15y agopremium number is audio advert free?
- dickeytk 15y agoFrom 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.
- childoftv101 15y agoclearly your conference call gets rickrolled after 10 mins unless you call the premium no :P
- dickeytk 15y agoMaybe the rickroll could start out quiet but just get louder and the other callers get quieter until you pay!
- iamdave 15y agoTrue 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.
- aymeric 15y agoI wish Twilio was available in the rest of the world though...
- hopeless 15y agoTake a look at Tropo — in my opinion it's better than Twilio, not least because scripts can be written in Ruby and hosted on Tropo, and has (or had) much better international support.
- dickeytk 15y agoI do like that they don't charge dev rates, but it does cost 3x as much in production. And twilio works great with ruby, callinwith.us is a rails app. Although if I needed international support I guess that would be an issue. Being a naive American has some perks though.
- johns 15y agoWe've got great coverage for voice in countries all over the world: http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates http://www.twilio.com/pricing/international-calling-rates You can both call to those countries and receive calls from them. We also just recently added local numbers in the UK in beta (http://www.twilio.com/uk-voice http://www.twilio.com/uk-voice), which is just touching on the surface of what will be coming outside the US. You've got my email now so we can get international calling enabled for your account if you'd like. Just reply in our other thread and let me know.
- hopeless 15y agoSorry but a year after I chose Tropo over Twilio, Tropo still wins: Twilio: "Twilio does not offer phone numbers from outside the US and Canada, and you can’t port international numbers to Twilio." http://www.twilio.com/faq/international http://www.twilio.com/faq/international Tropo: "We offer local numbers in the US and 40 other countries - here's the full list of available countries, note that these are also free for developer accounts" https://www.tropo.com/docs/scripting/international_dialing_sms.htm https://www.tropo.com/docs/scripting/international_dialing_s...
- asmosoinio 15y agoThe border anti-alias looks odd in Google Chrome (Windows Vista / Chrome 14.0.835.163), works fine in Firefox. http://i.imgur.com/91ahT.png http://i.imgur.com/91ahT.png
- dickeytk 15y agoYou are correct. Oddly it looks fine on OSX. Maybe I could just remove the tilt or something? Not sure how to fix it otherwise.
- knotty66 15y agoFont rendering too is pretty aliased in Chrome on Windows - but fine in Chrome on OS X, Linux. It's strange that Google would introduce Google Web Fonts and then not make it a priority to bring rendering on Windows Chrome up to a reasonable standard.
- JakaJancar 15y agoAfter the code has been generated, change the URL to e.g.: http://callinwith.us/589-106 http://callinwith.us/589-106 If the link is opened with the code already set, instead of showing "Your conference room is good to go!" show "We are waiting for you!" or something like that. This way you can send the link instead of copy-pasting the instructions.
- gfrison 15y agoWTF?
- tluyben2 15y agoIt's nice indeed, however it doesn't work in EU which makes it worthless for most things we do @ Observu :) Any idea if that will ever be solved?
- ntulip 15y agoAnd you open sourced it too! You are a great man.
- mbertrand 15y agoNice work on callinwith.us, have been looking for a sleek solution for conference calls lately. Assuming you built it with Twilio, how are you handling the random access codes?
- dickeytk 15y agoCodes are just randomly generated then stored in a postresql db for later reference. If there is a collision, it adds a digit.
- suking 15y agoWe us twilio for call tracking - any one know how much a local phone number cost if you buy in bulk outside of twilio? We're at 50 cents a number since we're over 1k, but still pretty expensive...
- oronadam 15y agoVery nice UX ! brilliant on the iPhone / iPad We have developed http://939.co.il http://939.co.il although not with such a slick interface :-) we also offer access numbers in more than 25 countries.and Skype access. It's built on top of foneAPI.com which is in private beta right now. If there are any developers who would like to try it we would love to talk to you guys.
- jmonegro 15y agoAlternatively, you can use keeptherecord.com