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Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by Justin_K on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:06AM (#35749935)
Probably twilio
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by culi on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:04AM (#35750446)
how can you use Twilio to reroute a call to your phone number?
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by Scoundreller on Saturday April 29, 2023 @02:45AM (#35750641)
Either route all calls from that callerid to your twilio number, port your own phone number to twilio and route all other calls to your new number, or what I would do: replace my mom's phone with an ATA and setup a dialplan for how to route calls to the child's number.
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by pigcat on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:51PM (#35754638)
Yep, that's pretty much spot on :D

I never knew about ATA's! I think would have solved things a little more elegantly. Thanks!

Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by macNchz on Saturday April 29, 2023 @10:35AM (#35753244)
Many phone providers actually offer what they call “Selective Call Forwarding”, which allow you to set up a limited number of basic routing rules to forward calls coming from specific numbers.
Re:Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself? by jskopek on Saturday April 29, 2023 @12:58PM (#35754704)
pigcat's brother here :)

In our case, my grandmother always calls my parents home phone number. The phone provider only offers simple call forwarding, so we route all calls to the home phone over to a Twilio number. We have a very simple Twilio Studio flow that routes calls from my grandmother's phone number to the call handler script we created, and all other calls are routed to my dad's cell phone number: https://share.cleanshot.com/ywwhzJ8H

We are a little lucky in that we can forward calls from our landline to a cell phone. If your relative is calling you directly on your cell phone, your carrier would need to offer selective forwarding for this strategy to work