Show HN: Callingly – turn any phone number into a link – powered by WebRTC
Nice and simple service. I was a bit annoyed that you plaster free everywhere, but the only way to find out that it&#x27;s a free trial that includes 10 calls is to sign up.<p>$5 is a good price point for Stripe billing purposes, but 25c a call seems pretty high. I&#x27;m assuming that your backend is Plivo or Twillio or Voip.ms and the cost per minute is about a tenth of a cent.<p>I would consider doing 40 calls for $5 and 100 calls for $10.<p>Also, instead of just an affiliate program, consider doing social media marketing with call credits to encourage it. For instance, if the person retweets a message about callingly, grant them 5 call credits.<p>Also consider making the call page, like callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd, have the affiliate link within the &quot;Get your free call page!&quot; link so any users who sign up through my call page are associated with my affiliate account.<p>Another source of monitization is allowing for CNAME pages. Instead of callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd set things up to have deftnerd.callingly.com. For a $5 yearly fee, allow custom CNAME so I can set up call.deftnerd.com to CNAME to deftnerd.callingly.com. That yearly fee should also allow the user to remove any branding.<p>Lastly, if I&#x27;m in DND mode, the call page at callingly.com&#x2F;deftnerd doesn&#x27;t seem to indicate that. It would be nice to remove the &quot;Call Adam Brown&quot; button and replace it with a status indicator.<p>I built something similar a few months back, but it was purely Bitcoin related. Users would create an account and get a deposit address and as long as it had funds, the service would be live for them. It made sense when Bitcoin transaction fees were nearly free, but now they&#x27;re as much as Stripe for sub $5 or $10 purchases.