Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for HN users, what now?

Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by chaosmachine on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:45AM (#1786789)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by c1sc0 on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @07:53AM (#1786798)

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

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Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by minalecs on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @08:16AM (#1786843)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by c1sc0 on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @08:22AM (#1786853)

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.

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Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by Keyframe on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @10:41AM (#1787244)

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

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Re:Ask HN: I built a free elevator pitch phone hotline for H... by c1sc0 on Wednesday October 13, 2010 @12:31PM (#1787710)

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.

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