akalsey

20 ms·

61.
by akalsey 16y ago
Total time to create the app itself was about 6 hours. We spent more time on the web site and the video than we did the app. :)
62.
by akalsey 16y ago
Key quote from the article... "their strategy seems to have revolved around buying second-tier applications and frittering away those startups’ talent and userbases."
63.
Deploy a rich communications app in 3 minutes with Ruby, Heroku, and Tropo(tropo.heroku.com)
25 points by akalsey 16y ago|8 comments
64.
by akalsey 16y ago
Yes, Tropo does international voice and SMS. We've got numbers in 36 countries and speech recognition in 9 langauges. If you buy a number from us outside the US, we can't do SMS on that yet, but we're working on it. In the meantime, feel fr
65.
When starting a company, don't count on anyone but yourself.(egoist.blogspot.com)
32 points by akalsey 16y ago|3 comments
66.
The apps and winners from the Seattle Open Government Hackathon(blog.tropo.com)
1 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
67.
Scaling a voice app that goes viral(blog.tropo.com)
1 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
68.
What does a startup CTO do?(codemonkeyism.com)
5 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
69.
by akalsey 16y ago
One thing that's always frustrated me about these sort of apps is that I don't actually want every business card I pick up at a conference to become a contact. I want to collect the information electronically, but I don't want to stuff my c
70.
by akalsey 16y ago
Also see Unbounce. (Not connected with the company, just a customer of theirs). http://unbounce.com/
71.
How we launched Chrometa, flopped, and then and learned to build traction.(blog.chrometa.com)
70 points by akalsey 16y ago|6 comments
72.
AdhearsionConf registration open(labs.voxeo.com)
2 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
73.
by akalsey 16y ago
Patents are largely useless if you're small. They're very expensive to get, and once you have them even more expensive to defend. Moreover, a defensible patent is so narrow in scope that it provides very little protection by itself. Someone
74.
by akalsey 16y ago
How about something substantive? WHY is it superior? Or are you just trolling? There's an effort going on to get Adhearsion running on FreeSwitch anyway.
75.
by akalsey 16y ago
Tropo uses Phonetag.com and Simulscribe to provide the actual transcription, and we've built a custom engine to handle the delivery and management of the transcriptions on the back-end.
76.
Real-time communications apps with PHP, Limonade, and Tropo(voiceingov.org)
16 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
77.
by akalsey 16y ago
To play an audio file in Tropo, just use the URL inside of your say() command. We'll recognize it automatically and do the right thing. And you can store the recordings on Tropo -- your Tropo app space has FTP and WebDAV credentials, so you
78.
by akalsey 16y ago
Unless you come in pre-funding or take a C-level position, you're typically not ever going to get rich off options. 0.1% isn't actually too bad for company that's been around long enough to get to a series C and for a middle management posi
79.
by akalsey 16y ago
Are you looking to just compile a list of the ways that someone might do this, or are you looking for a good solution? Basically, every method listed here uses something as a proxy for a signing authority. In the real world, we have Notarie
80.
by akalsey 16y ago
Now that long distance service is essentially free for everyone and mobile phones (and VoIP) have nationwide networks, more people are choosing not to update their phone numbers when they move. This means that there's a good chance my phone
81.
by akalsey 16y ago
You could use a service that works internationally like http://tropo.com/ , http://cloudvox.com , or any voicexml hosting company.
82.
by akalsey 16y ago
Not exactly. We created Tropo as a way of reaching a different group of developers than our VoiceXML products are used by. We noticed that lots of developers were writing VoiceXML that was basically a couple of XML tags surrounding huge blo
83.
by akalsey 16y ago
I wouldn't say it's taken this time to hit the mainstream. It's just experiencing a second wave of popularity. VoiceXML and it's predecessors were all the rage in the late 90s among the web developer crowd. Most of the automate phone system
84.
by akalsey 16y ago
We plan worldwide domination. :) We already offer phone numbers in Japan. Some Asian countries don't allow voip services to operate or have extremely high costs. So it depends on where in Asia you're looking. From your Twitter profile, look
85.
by akalsey 16y ago
As noted by others, Tropo works worldwide. We've got numbers in 30 countries and 8 different European languages for text to speech. If you want a number in a place we don't list, let us know and we'll see what we can do.
86.
by akalsey 16y ago
Woah, that was longer than I intended. Sorry about the wall of text there.
87.
by akalsey 16y ago
I'm the developer evangelist for Tropo. Here's a rundown of the big differences between Tropo and Twilio. Tropo is 100% free for developers. No credits, no limits on minutes, no ads played to you or your callers. You even get your own phone
88.
by akalsey 16y ago
You could have your Tropo app send you the audio file, too as an MP3 attachment.
89.
Welcome to the Troposphere(ananelson.com)
3 points by akalsey 16y ago|0 comments
90.
by akalsey 17y ago
Tropo also supports speech recognition (in 8 languages, even), SMS to international destinations, IM, Twitter, and does it all with a single API. No messing around with one API for voice and another for SMS. Write once, run anywhere.

More ›