Show HN: My two-week MVP, Call2Record
Speaking as a technical user, I don't think I'd use your product for recording my voice. I can do that trivially with a voice recorder utility on any computer, or even my smartphone, for absolutely free, and probably with higher quality than a typical phone line can give me.
What I would consider using this is for having a voice contact form. If I deal with users who might be more accustomed to phoning someone instead of filling out web forms, I might tell them "you can call this number and give your suggestions, feeback, etc". Having an option of leaving a greeting message (and to inform them they're being recorded) would be nice.
If you're a developer, these are trivial to do with Twilio directly, but if people don't want to waste time reimplementing stuff they can outsource to you, it could be useful. There probably are other services which do exactly this, although I'm not aware of their names at the moment, as I hadn't had the need to use them yet.
I find your app great. I can imagine numerous users (at least in my country) who have don't use smart phones, don't know how to use recording functionality in mobile phones, and have too low bandwidths to upload recordings. For them and for me, its a simplifier.
p.s: my country = India
I love how low you've made the pricing. You must be in the red after paying Twilio 1¢/minute inbound, 2¢/SMS and 2¢/minute outbound. Thanks!
iPhone limits the size of voice memos that I can email myself so for long memos I will use Call2Record.
Beautiful web design. Nice job.
I launched an almost identical service, http://savethatcall.com, in January. My prices are extremely low (50 cents + 5 cents per minute), but it's hard to compete with free! Good luck.
hi HN! I put this together to toy around with some new technologies that I hadn't played with before.
It's a service for recording audio directly to 'the cloud' with any mobile phone.
Same questions as those to @jiffyjeff:
Have you made any money off the service?
How long did it take you to build it? What tech did you use?
I think if you had transcription included, this would be a more compelling offering (for me, at least -- sample size of one).
The domain name is really impressive. Did you have to buy it on the domain market, or was it available?
What is the benefit of using this service over jott.com?
Call to tweet your audio message, "Hello, I am winning".