This is a YC company that finally really excites me.<p>The best technology removes problems from the equation all together. Profig (which is kind of a silly name despite its amazing core service) provides a virtual phone system that can be developed like web infrastructure.<p>Once their account creation is automated (which it sounds like that's their main to-do based on yabbadabbadoo's responses and product description), build-up and tear-down of virtual communication infastructure would be like going to pick up pens and pencils for your business (a trip that might take 20 minutes).<p>The faster and cheaper critical business infrastructure (e-mail, "productivity", research, communication) can be integrated into an organization the more market opportunities exist for smaller players, as new or temporary opportunities could be capitalized on with much less foresight or risk.<p>YC companies like this that use other YC companies as initial users sounds like something Xhibit would do, but what PG is essentially doing is actively researching into building virtual companies at increasingly marginal rates, directly on the market itself with real companies.<p>I will be watching this one more closely for sure!
At $30 a month, it offers less in terms of low priced options to get started compared with, say, these guys:<p><a href="https://secure.grasshopper.com/" rel="nofollow">https://secure.grasshopper.com/</a><p>I have no idea about anything else though - I ended up not using Grasshopper because they rejected my credit card for whatever odd reason.<p><i>Edit</i> - changed the wording to make it clearer what I mean about pricing tiers.
yabbadabbadoo: Profig looks interesting, but I can't discern why or whether it's better than using existing cheap SIP providers like OnSIP, which allow startups, small business, and even medium-sized corporations to use Android, iOS, Windows, OS X, and Linux softphone SIP clients as well as brandname SIP phones from Polycom, Cisco, etc.<p>Please help me understand, how exactly is Profig better?
Is this anything like what Plivo (another YC company) is doing? What are the differences, if any? Sorry if these are stupid questions, I know next to nothing about telephony or the market opportunities therof.
1) How is this any different than uReach, which is what we currently use? It starts at 24.99 a month.
2) The logo looks too much like Simple's (simple.com)