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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   Assuming you mean why it's relevant now, not why mobile adoption is up, the mobile number travels with you at all times and also is more heavily used for SMS, which is becoming an increasingly standard way to interact with people. By defin
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   thanks -- so glad u like it!
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   you get one number, good for up to a week or 20 voice minutes / 60 messages, with the initial purchase. after that you can get more burners on a similar basis.
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   So do we :-D
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   in-bound and outbound, calls and texts. and you can turn the ringer and/or message notifications on and off as you like.
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   Good ideas come in cycles. At that time, though, 50% of the world wasn't mobile-only, and there were no smartphones. We think this is really relevant right now.
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   Been gone from the app store for months. RingCentral, along with lots of other players, are focused on small business IVR types of service. Quite different.
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   When we tested out other names, people kept saying, "you mean like a burner?"
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   by gregcohn 14y ago

   Thanks!!
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    I am more sinned against than sinning, when it comes to respect for privacy.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    The app is available in Canada. If you have trouble finding it in the iOS app store there, let me know.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    All phone numbers have some ambient activity -- wrong numbers alone account for at least some randomness, though some obviously have more than others, and even very established carriers sometimes distribute numbers with a "legacy". So it's
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    We are definitely looking at expanding our international coverage as soon as we practically can. Nothing to announce formally yet though.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Nothing to announce yet, but we are looking at this.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Agree!
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Thanks for the feedback. We gave this a lot of thought but ultimately didn't want to create an experience that was a "free" download that required additional in-app payment before it had any utility.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Definitely an issue we've been mindful of and designed for.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    We proudly work with Twilio -- though there's a lot of work that's gone into managing the user-facing aspects of the service and the UX.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    A lot of people won't take blocked calls -- and if you want to be reached in return, or via SMS, that wouldn't be a solution.
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    Show HN: Burner, for temporary phone numbers(blog.burnerapp.com)

    323 points by gregcohn 14y ago|180 comments
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Been looking for this product for a long time!
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    I think what's important is the predictability and stability of the medium. Quora's recent "feature" is particularly repugnant because they had already achieved relatively wide distribution on the model that people were reading things priv
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Great post. It seems like there are several different interpretations of what an API-centric business model would have looked like: the "all the data in one place" model, and the "communications bus for the internet" model. (These are not
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    I used to manage a very popular online diet subscription service. My quick reaction is that you are addressing a pain point that many people have -- it's annoying to plan meals and map grocery purchases to them, while the "shop first and fi
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    First I'm hearing of it, but a) awesome! and b) recommended based on the folks involved.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    Are you looking for feedback on the execution or the idea as a viable and/or potentially large business?
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    As a timely example, right now Air France's mileage booking tool is down. You would never know that from the fact that there are links in their Flying Blue club to "book a miles flight", and on the page it links to a prominent call to acti
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    Why do airline websites suck so much?

    7 points by gregcohn 14y ago|13 comments
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    An interesting dimension of this that other commenters haven't noted is that keeping a home backup of this scope would be so clearly against policy at most corporate technology companies as to be a termination-worthy offense.
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    by gregcohn 14y ago

    That was exactly my question. Your price premium might be $0 -- rationally, I might add, but I wonder what the market's would be.