This is pretty cool. I like the simplicity of the whole thing. It definitely makes you cut down your pitch to a handful of words. Check out my pitch here:

http://pitchpower.appspot.com/pitch?id=agpwaXRjaHBvd2VychILE...

I definitely think embedding the audio in the page somehow should be your next step.

I was messing around with Twilio last week for AgileTask. It is pretty neat, and has some really cool functionality.

Best of luck.

*Update: Make the "PitchPower" text at the top of the permalink page into a link back to the main page. If I post this on twitter or facebook, some people are naturally going to try to click that heading to see what PitchPower is.

Nice pitch, direct and to the point and I understood everything.

The only thing missing would be a little excitement. You sounded a bit bored.

Yeah, you were the first one to do a real pitch & I was thinking the same. Be a little more positive & articulate clearly. Feel free to try again! ;-)

Haha thanks for the feedback on the pitch. Maybe I'll run through it again once I get some more coffee :)

I just saw your pitch generated about 100 pageviews, do you see any traffic on your side?

We noticed a small little spike for sure.

Thanks for the data point, I'm pondering which direction to go with this: community (pitch & receive some free traffic) or service (pitch until you're pitch-perfect ... ha)

Pitch until you're pitch-perfect. Definitely.

Besides sounding better, it's actually much more useful.

Some ideas:

- Embed the m3ps (maybe use soundcloud?)

- Let people vote them up or down

- Let people record directly in their browser (via flash?) or upload their own 20-second mp3s.

I chose phone because ultimately I want the service to call you at random times & force you to pitch.

maybe just me, but I wouldn't appreciate getting random calls. I really don't like giving out my phone number and having someone call to do a survey on their service, or asking me if I need anything. If I want to take the time to reuse your service it will be on my own time.

ok I get that, good point. It'd be an opt-in service of course. FYI: while Twilio returns the caller ID, I'm not actually storing that right now, so no worries.

All of that + an box to transcribe the audio, maybe some people are deaf or maybe some people can't really understand accents.

I actually tried out the twilio audio transcription and it was really crappy so I removed it again. When even only 10% is transcribed wrong on a 20 seconds pitch it gets really painful quickly.

hey this is awesome, if you drop a note to me at [email protected] I'd love to give you some extra Twilio credit, and if you're cool with it I'd love to feature this on the Twilio blog. Thanks for building cool stuff with our API!

thanks for the nice words danielle, mail sent ;-)

Add an 'upload pitch' feature to the website so that you don't have to call a phone number and can try a couple of times without wasting trans-atlantic phone calls if you are in some place other than that US?

I'm sure people in the developing world with good stuff would like that too.

Very nice concept!

To anyone else who's trying: you can use Google Voice to make free international calls. Something I sadly only found out after spending some $$$ while building this thing.

You can make free calls to the US and Canada using Gmail. I think that's different than saying Google Voice gives you free international calls.

Google Voice on its own is just a forwarding service, and is only available for user in the US.

(Not being pedantic, just clarifying in case someone gets confused.)

Felideon, I stand corrected: Gmail does NOT do free international calls, but for all practical purposes Gmail + PitchPower is still free.

Is the sound quality of a google voice connection comparable to an MP3? (I haven't used it GV)

Techcrunch did this but with video:

http://pitches.techcrunch.com/

site seems dormant. You may want to explore the reason why this wasn't more popular.

My personal opinion is that video should work better than voice, or even just text + a deck.

Call me crazy, but I'd really like to see pitches implemented in a reddit/HN style system.

you're talking about up/down votes, right? I'm a bit torn on that: implement it on PitchPower or allow the conversations to take place on existing sites like HN / Reddit?

20sec is pretty short, good discipline though

I really dislike talking on the phone.

Have someone in the room to pitch to while you make the call.

I made one. It's showing up as "None by None website audio permalink" - I should note the sound quality is low on my end, that was SkypeOut into a built-in laptop mic.

Overall looks like a cool implementation.

> So tell me: what should be the next feature for PitchPower?

1. Some sort of tagging or summary that makes it easy for people going to the site to choose which pitches to listen to.

2. Some elegant method of leaving feedback on a pitch. Maybe contact info - Twitter, email, something else? A static comments/feedback link for each pitch?

If you got a significant number of pitches, really anything greater than 10, you'd want both of those features so people have a way to figure out what they want to listen to, and a way to easily give feedback on topic.

Overall, looks very nice - congrats and cheers.