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I made this to solve a problem I have regularly with my side projects, which is that I often need a phone number to sign up for some service (e.g. PayPal) but I
by stanleydrew 4y ago
I made this to solve a problem I have regularly with my side projects, which is that I often need a phone number to sign up for some service (e.g. PayPal) but I've already signed up with my personal number.
Anyway I hope some of you in similar situations might find it useful. Let me know if you have feedback or comments here or via email to hello@oneway.tel
- icedchai 4y agoCould you tell us what provider you're using for these phone numbers? Many services won't sent SMS to VOIP numbers due to fraud, fake accounts, etc.
- danpalmer 4y agoI’ve tried using Twilio in the past to automate 2FA for a shared team account and the number just got rejected everywhere I tried. This would be great if it works but given that defeating this isn’t one of the selling points on the main page I’d guess that it’s not something that has been considered.
- stanleydrew 4y agoSuccess with 2FA depends on the type of phone number. Right now oneway.tel offers US wireline VoIP numbers (from Twilio), which won't work for verification with some services (although there's no technical reason they can't). I have one customer using a UK mobile number (also from Twilio) to successfully authenticate with Wise (among other things). If you're interested in testing out a non-US mobile number let me know via email to hello@oneway.tel and we can work something out.
- stanleydrew 4y agoThese are Twilio numbers. I have had success with verification using Twilio numbers although sometimes the "Call me instead" option is required. I implemented a simple voicemail inbox for those cases. Your mileage may vary of course. I'd like to collect a list of services that don't allow verification at all via landline/VoIP and post it.
- tjfl 4y agoHi, I was a charge.co customer a few years back. It was neat, and bummed it's no longer around. For this new service would customers own the phone numbers as long as they're paying for them? Could they be ported to another service?
- stanleydrew 4y agoYeah I'm a little disappointed about how Charge turned out too. Working with Sprint was tough, I'll just leave it at that. The question about porting is a good one, and I basically punted on making a decision until I could tell whether anyone was interested in the service. I am of course using Twilio under the hood, so porting out requires using their process, documented here: https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223179588-How-do-I-port-my-phone-numbers-away-from-Twilio- https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223179588-How-d... It's a little cumbersome but I don't see any reason to prevent port-outs.
- edmundsauto 4y agoWhat features does this offer in comparison with just signing up for a Twilio number for $1/month? I've always just used their message logs UI to look at inbound messages for 2fac.
- stanleydrew 4y agoI used to do that with Twilio directly too, and just got tired of configuring the same thing multiple times with multiple accounts. I added a simple voicemail inbox and then made a UI to display all the messages and voicemail recordings, and that became oneway.tel. So oneway.tel is basically just the Twilio messages/calls/recordings log in a more convenient interface, with Google/FB auth (which is convenient for me). If you're already experienced with Twilio configuration and their console then $5/month may not be worth it.
- edmundsauto 4y agoThere is great value in wrapping a generic offering for a specific purpose, I congratulate you! I apologise if it felt like I was being critical.