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Not indefinitely but at least to the point where they’re smarter than humans.

They’re discovering previously unknown mathematical theorems.

How is that not new?

I do. Just based on personal experience of using these tools for the last several years and how they’ve progressed.

I think you’re right. And yet still.

I just don't get it. How do you go from writing the kinds of future visions he has to staring at the singularity practically hitting you in the face and calling it "the world's money-losingest technology"?

Is it because he isn't actually using the technology for work on a day-to-day basis like a lot of us?

There’s a short story out there about a device that can actually do this and then let you stay in contact with your alternate self for a while to see how things turn out. Fascinating stuff.

It's definitely possible, but you have to do it in a sustainable way and not focus on the grind.

I'm 34, have a 3 year old at home and my current startup hit product-market fit at pretty much the same time as my son was born.

I work about 40 hours a week, keep a sane and flexible schedule, pay myself a market salary and try to keep the business mostly profitable.

It also helped to have investors that were 100% on-board with all of this and are supportive of running a calm company: https://calmfund.com/

I feel like this is the popular sentiment these days but I don't fully agree.

I've seen so many companies spend themselves to death and its easy to have it happen much faster than anybody in charge realizes.

I've also seen companies grow expenses as things go well and suddenly there's a massive downturn in the market and they can't recover in time. Meanwhile, more frugal companies have the runway to weather unexpected events.

So I still think there's more value in frugality than is generally accepted.

Were there any correlations in this study between changes in severity of symptoms and therapies such as ABA?

So I'm confused, because according to https://caseyhandmer.wordpress.com/2019/11/02/starlink-is-a-...

"Based on the Starlink website, that all satellites will be deployed below 600km. In this case, satellites may be visible during twilight but not after nightfall, greatly reducing the potential impact to astronomy."

Can anybody verify this?

A startup I worked at used to have a crying room. So not just Jeff Bezos.

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Yep, that’s the one.

Soooooo... if people use their standard password on this you'll be able to login as them as soon as you get any personally identifiable info - like email or FB account, right?

We just added the dialpad, so you should be able to navigate phone trees as well now.

Thanks! I'm actually working on the dial pad right now so that should be updated in a day or two.

For now we've got Google's reCaptcha set up. We're also going to be implementing a way for recipients of the calls to control what they do and don't receive.

After that we're going to have to watch the behavior patterns and compensate for anything that comes up.

It is one of our biggest concerns but something we believe can be conquered.

Oh yeah, definitely. In fact, I believe that dealing with fraud will be the #1 concern for this business aside from getting traction in the first place. Thats why even my prototype is protected using Google's reCaptcha.

However, I also believe that this is something that can be handled while also providing a good experience for real users.

I've run other web telephony businesses for several years now and those get hit by scammers at least once a month, but I've learned how to automatically block them out. I'm sure there's a way to do that here as well.

So I don't want to "bash the competition" but these sites are exactly the problem I ran into when I tried to find a way to do this before building it myself.

On the first one my calls just fail for no reason. And on the second one my call is limited to 5 minutes and it looks like they only allow a certain number of calls per day.

That's the issue. There's a ton of "demos" of this online but nobody that actually takes it seriously or makes any effort to really refine the experience as a core of their product. That's exactly what I want to do.

Yeah, that's a good way to put it. Thanks!

Thanks for the advice!

I'll look into those providers and see what I can set up. If I can get the costs down by an order of magnitude that would obviously be amazing.

As for tracking the source of the caller, I'm not talking about their name but how they came to the website to that then generated the call. Whether thats though organic search, PPC, advertising, some random forum post, etc. It's a lot easier to get exact referral information when the call is a web event rather than an actual phone call.

So first I have to grow this to some decent amount of usage where it even matters really planning out the long term. :)

But, the current plan is to charge the businesses that want to receive calls from their international customers for tracking and control.

We can allow the businesses to have branded links that auto-dial their number that they can share on their website, email, etc. With these they can also track the source of the caller, do call recording, and route the calls how they want.

For travel businesses, for example, that do business with primarily customers outside their country this is a problem that we can solve for them. Most people would never dial an international number, but they'll click a link and make a free call from their browser.

Honestly just ease of use. No fees. No ads. No account required. Nothing to download or install.

Just go to the website, put in the phone number and call.

From what I've experienced with my relatives overseas this is something that's really needed and something they have not been able to find.

Really? Your costs are as low as that?

Who are you using for your provider?

This is through Twilio, although I'll probably have to expand it to other providers in the future to cover more countries.

For starters though, I should be able to grow this from just the USA to 38 countries just through Twilio.

Hey all, I wanted to post my prototype here and get HN's feedback before submitting my YC application.

This project came out of the combination of my work on web telephony from the last several years and the troubles that I've had communicating with the family members that I have overseas.

Skype is amazing. But it can't beat a phone call. And if you're trying to deal with a company, a bank, or (god forbid) trying to sort out Visa issues you need to be able to make a call from anywhere.

I realized that its the 21st century and it doesn't make any sense for international calling to be so difficult or expensive. Calling should be free and available to anyone in the world and I wanted to make that happen.

I believe that through sponsors and a Tom's Shoes-style model where those that can pay for extra features subsidize the costs for those that really need the free service, we can make this work. And not only can this be a viable business model but also something that brings a huge amount of social good to the world.

International communication should be easy. And we want get there, even if its one country at a time.

I appreciate any and all feedback!

- Interesting point about the voicemail option. I'll think about that, maybe run some tests.

- Thanks for the feedback on the up-front per-call pricing model. I struggled with making the decision on that just because it does introduce some risk to me and the industry standard is per-minute. However, I really do believe this simplifies the experience for my users and I appreciate hearing that others agree.

- Thanks for those suggestions too. I'll add those to the FAQs.

Awesome suggestions. Thanks!

- For pricing: sorry about the confusion, I have a pricing section of the home page in progress but didn't want to wait to post this.

- I'm using Twilio and the WebRTC connection is cheap but calling to an outgoing phone line is not. It's a few cents per minute, depending on where I'm calling. I might play with pricing some more but even at $0.25 a call I'm worried about breaking even depending on how long the calls last.

- Social media marketing w/ call credits is a great idea. That goes on the immediate to do list.

- Same with affiliate link and CNAME. Someone has mentioned the CNAME concept before but I somehow didn't understand what they were talking about until you spelled it out that way.

- Status indicator - cool idea. You don't think it will deter people from making the call if they know the person is not available? Or is it better to know beforehand that you're going to voicemail?

Thanks again for the great ideas.

I've been working for a while on a number of different projects to harness WebRTC to connect businesses and customers and make it all very easy to use.

Callingly is the latest and most straightforward solution - something that can be used by everybody from a mom selling things on Craigslist or Etsy to big international corporations.

Basically, you just sign up with your phone number and you get a Callingly page like this: https://callingly.com/leon

You can put this link in your email signature, post it online, on social media or even embed it as a button in your website. Then anybody can just click on the link and call you directly through their computer, tablet, mobile phone, etc.

The call goes right through to your phone and you know it's coming from your online profile. The caller never gets to see your phone number and you can control what hours during the week you're available to let your phone ring. Otherwise, it just goes to voicemail.

Plus, the web call is free for the caller anywhere in the world - so it's perfect if you have international customers.

I'd love any feedback!

If only it supported WebRTC like even Edge does. I'm running a WebRTC startup and its killing me that Safari and Mobile Safari don't support it at all.