If you know the interest is there, Flash is often used as a fallback for WebRTC things. I mean, yeah, there's a "spec" for Flash, but that doesn't solve things for iOS users either.
i don't think it's going to work. google had gvoice for years and marketed it with free phone calls and voicemails, and it didn't take off. i had a similar project 5~6 years ago, which fell apart. my conclusion is that free call is not attractive at all to general public. if you are competing again telcomms (excluding MIM apps), you need a product that is 10x better, and "free" is not a magic word. or, find your niche! (e.g. crowdfunding project funders, consider my disapproved kickstarter project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1015114671/1150193072?t...)
Look, if your service is useful enough, it will get traction even if you have no website to boot. That has been the reality of supply and demand since ages.
That's not a guarantee they can make, since they're suggesting you share the link that contains your email address in order for people to call you.
To be honest, I'm more comfortable giving out my phone number than my primary contact email address. On the other hand, it's much easier to set up a throwaway email than a throwaway phone number.
Is the point of the service to allow anyone to send voicemail to any email address? Or is it for people who own the email address to allow anyone to voicemail them?
Because in the latter case (which is what I think the service is), you could make the users register their email address (using a verification email to ensure they do not register someone else email without their consent) in your service and then have a map from a random hash to the email, allowing you to provide urls looking like dialzoo.com/nzef1824Ldaw68873 rather than forcing user to publish their email in clear. Or even require a username and use that for the URL.
I think this is a neat idea. It brings up some questions about telemarketing and spam. I am not familiar with telemarketing laws but I'm a little more familiar with the spam laws. Now that the message is going through an email, I wonder if someone could get into trouble for breaking a spam law where a phone call would have been fully legal.
For me this is a magical combination of two unpopular modes of communication. There's a reason texting/chat is so popular, people don't like email and they don't like phone calls.
Make it paid, and you might have a fighting chance with executives and salespeople. Executives get cold-called AND cold-emailed by terrible salespeople all the time. Know why? Both media are essentially free.
Paying would create a much-needed quality barrier in these irreplaceable but miserable media.
Free isn't always better...how are you planning to make money anyway?
The registered email address getting the redirection to it's own phone pays for that service by the minute... at a rate comparable to SkypeOut. This is TollFree at really great rate.
Oh, did I mention, once you have an account, you can also dial out to normal phone number using simple URLs again... and pay for that. But this is really an add-on.
Noticed you had that invest link down there are you looking for huge VCs or have do you have the legal and technical ability to handle investments from the public?
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Just not on iOS. Sigh.
It also allows to send voicemails to any email address in a click.
Let me know what you think ?
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good luck!
Well Google has the free calling built into Gmail and Hangouts now so I wouldn't be so sure about that.
I communicate with someone consistently who does not like to type. So, you may have a good use case.
Your website has 90s look. It gives a look of a shaddy service. Doesn't look serious or even professional.
That is what I think. You asked for it.
Is it the pictures, or all the rest ?
To be honest, I'm more comfortable giving out my phone number than my primary contact email address. On the other hand, it's much easier to set up a throwaway email than a throwaway phone number.
But it's to the users of the service to share their dialzoo url including their email. Like http://dialzoo/your@email.com
Our assumption is that people would use email that are consider public info already, and share that.
Perhaps this is more relevant for public profiles such as - business website - public social profiles like linkedin. - facebook - google +
Because in the latter case (which is what I think the service is), you could make the users register their email address (using a verification email to ensure they do not register someone else email without their consent) in your service and then have a map from a random hash to the email, allowing you to provide urls looking like dialzoo.com/nzef1824Ldaw68873 rather than forcing user to publish their email in clear. Or even require a username and use that for the URL.
http://dialzoo.com/67135a14d3ac4f1369633dd006d6efec
http://www.developer.it/post/gravatars-why-publishing-your-e... http://archive.hack.lu/2013/dbongard_hacklu_2013.pdf
I'm using Firefox Nightly (34.0a1) and it says that my browser doesn't support WebRTC, when it most definitely does.
It uses the noun "email", which to me means "an email message", as if it meant "an email address".
I found it very annoying and confusing. Perhaps I'm just old, though.
Paying would create a much-needed quality barrier in these irreplaceable but miserable media.
Free isn't always better...how are you planning to make money anyway?
The registered email address getting the redirection to it's own phone pays for that service by the minute... at a rate comparable to SkypeOut. This is TollFree at really great rate.
Oh, did I mention, once you have an account, you can also dial out to normal phone number using simple URLs again... and pay for that. But this is really an add-on.
How about using an alias instead of my email in the url?
About the alias, we are considering it as as great idea also. But we want to keep it simple for now.
Check it out !