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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour by mysterypie on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @12:10AM (#12440911)
This is cool, but the customer has to jump two technical hurdles: being able to pay with Bitcoin for the first time and using WebRTC for the first time. Perhaps the most likely customers are already fluent with Bitcoin and WebRTC. I have the feeling however that there could be a hundred times more potential users if the hurdles were smaller (or better explained).

Also, although I personally like the super-clean minimal web page, I imagine it'll look amateurish to the typical user. (Maybe this doesn't matter to the target audience.)

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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour by ashitlerferad on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @05:19AM (#12441835)
WebRTC is not a hurdle, every recent browser supports it.
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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour by bjacobel on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @09:08AM (#12443063)
Some things are subtly broken in different (current) browsers, and Safari 9 (the most recent wide-release version) doesn't support it at all. Check out the feature compatibility table: http://iswebrtcreadyyet.com
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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour by mysterypie on Wednesday September 07, 2016 @07:45AM (#12442484)
Stop 100 people on the street and ask them how they'd make a phone call through their browser (not even mentioning jargon like WebRTC). How many will know what to do?

I'll grant you that perhaps all that's needed is a better explanation and examples on the OP's web site.

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Re:An anonymous phone number in your browser for an hour by jbg_ on Thursday September 08, 2016 @12:16PM (#12454379)
(creator of DTMF.io here)

I don't see WebRTC as being too much of a hurdle. If the user is running recent-ish Chrome or Firefox, they don't need to know about WebRTC any more than you need to know about HTTP in order to load the website. It just happens to be the technology we use to make the voice calls work: you still type a number into a box and click a button and then talk.

If they're running Safari, they're unfortunately completely out of luck for now - but SMS will still work!

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