Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged phone call: GetOutCall.com

Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by Roedou on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:59AM (#4489405)

This was my recent 'weekend project'. I have so may half-finished apps & sites, that I really needed to break the seal, and ship something. This was the simplest thing I could make, so here it is; it's definitely a relief to have something else 'in the wild'.

It's very simple: a flat HTML page for the front end; the back-end is Python on Google App Engine, using Twilio for the text messages and phone calls.

I'm more than open to feedback!

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by borplk on Friday September 07, 2012 @12:56PM (#4490037)

Excellent work. Congratulations on shipping. If I could find a good Twilio alternative for other countries I might do something similar for another another country.

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by Roedou on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:16PM (#4490127)

Which country are you looking for?

They have their international beta program: http://www.twilio.com/blog/2012/08/twilio-launches-beta-phon... http://www.twilio.com/international

and this page seems to include a LOT of countries: http://www.twilio.com/voice/pricing

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by borplk on Friday September 07, 2012 @01:29PM (#4490201)

Was looking for Australia in particular. I was just searching for it and from the search results I thought they are not providing for Australia just yet but clicked on the link you gave me and seems like they actually do.

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by akalsey on Friday September 07, 2012 @10:09PM (#4491990)

Tropo has Australian numbers. And 40 other countries. Has for years. http://tropo.com (disclosure, I'm the product manager).

But really, if all you're doing is dialing out, then you don't actually need a local number. Just use whatever service you want (us, Twilio, Plivo, someone else, etc) and set the caller ID to a local number or make the call as a blocked caller ID.

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by notyourwork on Sunday September 09, 2012 @12:08AM (#4494897)

Ok - Awesome idea and project. I just tested it out and it worked great but I did have one bit of feedback.

To make it more realistic, you should let the call run a bit longer. For example, on my phone with the volume up in a quiet room you can hear the beep when the call ends. With this service the call ends quite abruptly. Perhaps let it run for a few seconds though I am not sure if this would incur any cost on your side?

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by rada on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:25PM (#4490477)

Beautiful design, noticed a bug though, on iPhone: http://imgur.com/2nOJc (background image doubled).

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Re:Show HN: escape from meetings, etc with a prearranged pho... by Roedou on Friday September 07, 2012 @02:42PM (#4490552)

Interesting, thanks.

Seems like I need a much wider image for the BG on mobile devices; I guess this is down to the very high resolution of iPhone screens?

Also, looks like the webfont character in the H! didn't work either.

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