thisnumber.rocks
Infrastructure
phone call forwarding
SHOW HN2017
How HN took it
3 positive, 17 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 21 critical, out of 41 comments about the project. Thread score -0.40.
Idea: 0 for, 11 againstExecution: 0 for, 4 againstPerformance: 0 for, 3 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 1 againstDesign: 0 for, 1 against
The thread, comment by comment
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What HN said
What people liked
Neat and useful idea; bring-your-own-number keeps control with the user
From 3 comments
Looks like this is "bring your own number". It's neat, but I wouldn't trust this site to stay up under any kind of stress, which means my number would be erratically dead. If the…
scrollaway on HNAwesome well done @hme Big fan of services that plug into your own billing system (rather than acting as a proxy).
onassar on HNYou keep control over your number, which you bought on Twilio.
hme on HN
Objections
Twilio's Twimlets and call forwarding already do this
From 4 comments
Doesn't look good. Remember, you're giving this unknown business the power to snoop on your phone calls. Do you want to open that back door? No visible privacy policy. No visible…
Animats on HNIf you don't need the opening hour logic, you can already achieve this will Twilio's Twimlets.
beejiu on HNTwilio has something called "Twimlets" that make setting this up very very simple. For voicemail you simply have to create a separate "twimlet" and have the resulting URL…
josh_carterPDX on HNOfficial solution https://support.twilio.com/hc/en-us/articles/223179908-Setting-up-call-forwarding
AbeEstrada on HN
Google Voice already offers this
From 3 comments
How is this any different from Google Voice?
robojamison on HNIsn't this exactly what Google Voice does?
koolba on HNYes, it is.
darrelld on HN
No visible privacy policy or pricing; concern about the operator seeing calls
From 2 comments
Doesn't look good. Remember, you're giving this unknown business the power to snoop on your phone calls. Do you want to open that back door? No visible privacy policy. No visible…
Animats on HNWhy is there no information on the costs or requirements? It seems the only possible way to find out is to sign up, which requires providing an email address...
tallanvor on HN
Hosting reliability and free service continuity worry commenters
From 2 comments
Looks like this is "bring your own number". It's neat, but I wouldn't trust this site to stay up under any kind of stress, which means my number would be erratically dead. If the…
scrollaway on HNThat's not reassuring. It's a free service that could shut down at any time. It's lovely, but I would never use it directly for anything serious unless I could pay for it.
scrollaway on HN
Requests
Open source the code so it can be self-hosted
From 2 comments
Looks like this is "bring your own number". It's neat, but I wouldn't trust this site to stay up under any kind of stress, which means my number would be erratically dead. If the…
scrollaway on HNPersonally if I built this I would probably open source it. Then anyone can run it. Although I suspect this is just a marketing ploy for http://aworldforus.com/ or they built it…
throwaway2016a on HN
Fix the login validation and certificate domain mismatch
From 2 comments
Some things that need fixing: - I could just create an account with nothing entered on the password field and could also login to that account that way. -…
aatishnn on HNConfirmed; source of the error appears to be the domain for the cert and the one using it are not the same domain.
saycheese on HN
Questions
How is this different from Google Voice?
From 2 comments
How is this any different from Google Voice?
robojamison on HNYou control the number of Google Voice and it has the same features too and is free. Clearly if you wanted to use Twillio platform with the same number there are things Google…
saycheese on HN
What is the pricing and how does the service make money?
From 1 comment
Why is there no information on the costs or requirements? It seems the only possible way to find out is to sign up, which requires providing an email address...
tallanvor on HN
Alternatives named
Google Voice
From 2 comments
How is this any different from Google Voice?
robojamison on HNIsn't this exactly what Google Voice does?
koolba on HN
Twilio Twimlets
From 2 comments
If you don't need the opening hour logic, you can already achieve this will Twilio's Twimlets.
beejiu on HNTwilio has something called "Twimlets" that make setting this up very very simple. For voicemail you simply have to create a separate "twimlet" and have the resulting URL…
josh_carterPDX on HN
Plivo call forwarding
From 1 comment
I built my Call Forwarding app using Plivo. It was pretty straight forward to use. https://www.plivo.com/docs/getting-started/forward-an-incoming-call/ is their official…
ramya_raghu on HN