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Show HN: Callingly – turn any phone number into a link – powered by WebRTC

11 pointsby lionheartover 8 years ago

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deftnerdover 8 years ago
Nice and simple service. I was a bit annoyed that you plaster free everywhere, but the only way to find out that it&#x27;s a free trial that includes 10 calls is to sign up.<p>$5 is a good price point for Stripe billing purposes, but 25c a call seems pretty high. I&#x27;m assuming that your backend is Plivo or Twillio or Voip.ms and the cost per minute is about a tenth of a cent.<p>I would consider doing 40 calls for $5 and 100 calls for $10.<p>Also, instead of just an affiliate program, consider doing social media marketing with call credits to encourage it. For instance, if the person retweets a message about callingly, grant them 5 call credits.<p>Also consider making the call page, like callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd, have the affiliate link within the &quot;Get your free call page!&quot; link so any users who sign up through my call page are associated with my affiliate account.<p>Another source of monitization is allowing for CNAME pages. Instead of callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd set things up to have deftnerd.callingly.com. For a $5 yearly fee, allow custom CNAME so I can set up call.deftnerd.com to CNAME to deftnerd.callingly.com. That yearly fee should also allow the user to remove any branding.<p>Lastly, if I&#x27;m in DND mode, the call page at callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd doesn&#x27;t seem to indicate that. It would be nice to remove the &quot;Call Adam Brown&quot; button and replace it with a status indicator.<p>I built something similar a few months back, but it was purely Bitcoin related. Users would create an account and get a deposit address and as long as it had funds, the service would be live for them. It made sense when Bitcoin transaction fees were nearly free, but now they&#x27;re as much as Stripe for sub $5 or $10 purchases.
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lionheartover 8 years ago
I&#x27;ve been working for a while on a number of different projects to harness WebRTC to connect businesses and customers and make it all very easy to use.<p>Callingly is the latest and most straightforward solution - something that can be used by everybody from a mom selling things on Craigslist or Etsy to big international corporations.<p>Basically, you just sign up with your phone number and you get a Callingly page like this: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;callingly.com&#x2F;leon" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;callingly.com&#x2F;leon</a><p>You can put this link in your email signature, post it online, on social media or even embed it as a button in your website. Then anybody can just click on the link and call you directly through their computer, tablet, mobile phone, etc.<p>The call goes right through to your phone and you know it&#x27;s coming from your online profile. The caller never gets to see your phone number and you can control what hours during the week you&#x27;re available to let your phone ring. Otherwise, it just goes to voicemail.<p>Plus, the web call is free for the caller anywhere in the world - so it&#x27;s perfect if you have international customers.<p>I&#x27;d love any feedback!
Raed667over 8 years ago
I find it really difficult to trust a service that doesn&#x27;t show clearly their pricing before sign-up.