Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby?

http://radar.oreilly.com/2008/08/adhearsion-next-killer-app-for.html

by sant0sk1 • 18 years ago

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stcredzero• 18 years ago

Interesting idea. The name needs some marketing consulting.

mtw• 18 years ago

adhearsion is not a startup, it's an open source project.

wvl• 18 years ago

Two things:

1. Naming is important for open source projects as well.

2. From Jay Philips' Blog (http://jicksta.com/posts/what-were-not-admitting-about-aster...):

"Here’s what I’ll let out: its name is Adhearsion Inc. and it’s not consulting. We’re currently seeking private funding. If you are or know of investors, send me an email at jay-at-adhearsion-dot-com. We think we know how to turn the industry around."

atog• 18 years ago

Looks promising.

comatose_kid• 18 years ago

Anyone looking at this should also consider Telegraph (telegraph.rubyforge.org).

noonespecial• 18 years ago

Not just adhearsion. It seems like Ruby is becoming the defacto sheepdog for shepherding the unwieldy Asterisk. I think its great news speaking as one who has lost one too many dialplans thanks to asterisks wonderful handling of "minor" upgrades.

gunderson• 18 years ago

Is it just me or are dialplans not really that hard?

Also, AEL is pretty powerful too. All of the asterisk "pros" recommend using the dialplan extensively for performance and stability reasons.

Ragi has potential in my opinion, however.

ezmobius• 18 years ago

My Startup(engineyard.com) has just finishing building our phone system in adhearsion. This handles our global support line with tons of features:

Provides a complete IVR written in Ruby, with helpers for menus, multiple dialing, etc. Provides a complete user interface written using Ruby on Rails, for an easy to use configuration tool for both users and administrators. Supports PSTN numbers as extensions, providing a completely virtual PBX. Supports automatic creation of workgroups, including insertion into the dial plan, right from the Ruby GUI. Supports workgroup scheduling from the user interface, so you extension only rings when you tell it to. Supports dialing multiple phones and employees to answer an inbound call. Forwards voice mails to everyone in the workgroup Supports click to dial, call history, etc. from the GUI

The cool part is we're going to open source this thing in the next few weeks. It's probably the biggest adhearsion app out there yet and will serve as a great example for folks looking to do cool stuff with adhearsion.

sant0sk1• 18 years ago

Please let us know when/where you open source your phone system app. I am very interested in learning from your experience.

Adhearsion - next killer app for Ruby?

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