Comments on: CloudVox Goes Public

By: Troy

Troy — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:13:59 +0000

Just an update that Cloudvox has been public for a few months now, and live for almost a year. We tried to make the most practical, stable, open environment for API-driven phone calls.

You can use Adhearsion, Asterisk-Java, PHPAGI, HTTP & JSON, or any other common open-source library for Asterisk. We’ve documented how to do stuff like conferences, find-me-follow-me, and voicemail.

http://cloudvox.com/ and http://help.cloudvox.com/ have lots more, and you can sign up for free. I’d love feedback.

By: Scott Cooper

Scott Cooper — Tue, 24 Feb 2009 02:51:54 +0000

I didnt get a response after — about a two week wait either — Love to get a beta invite.

By: Dave Schappell

Dave Schappell — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 20:19:07 +0000

Interesting — looks like another startup that’s presenting at Seattle Tech Startups, Twilio (www.twilio.com) — am sure there will be a ton of these in coming weeks/months/years!

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By: Troy Davis

Troy Davis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:43:59 +0000

Scotty, good question. We want to make open phone APIs easier to adopt, and specifically remove two barriers: the barrier to getting started, and the barrier to production-izing an app (for the public or an internal audience). We’re developers, so we built it on the platforms we want to use.

As Thomas says, voice really is the paprika – everything tastes better with it. The overhead to add that “last 10%” paprika is just too high.

I did a presentation yesterday at Ruby Hoedown that went over a couple prototype apps that show just a bit of what’s possible. Here’s a few to play with:

http://github.com/eric/phoenix_status
http://github.com/eric/voter
http://gist.github.com/4670

Note that you’re getting a sneak peek; the numbers mentioned might be intermittently down as we add to the apps.

It shows what I’m talking about, though: the barrier to having something callable is now very close to zero.

Troy

By: Troy Davis

Troy Davis — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 15:38:44 +0000

Hi Mike,

First off, let me apologize for the crossed wires. I just double-checked our procmail filters and ticketing system, and only found the list request. To that end, you’ll have an email in the next 2 hours with access. I’d be happy to troubleshoot further

In any case, I really appreciate your interest. Cloudvox is squarely in production, and already serves many live apps. I’d love to see what you can mix in.

Troy

By: Mike Clark

Mike Clark — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 18:51:03 +0000

This sounded exciting. I went to the site on July 22 as soon as I read the blog post and put in my email address. Haven’t heard a peep since. Tried a note on the feedback page several days later. Still nothing. Are they really ready for prime time?

By: Scotty

Scotty — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 00:00:33 +0000

Hi Thomas,

I’m a fledgling VoIP entrepreneur and I’m still wrapping my mind around all the different aspects of the technology and business of voice enabled business processes.

This post touches on a question I’ve had for a while:
> A lot of my voice mashup work was done
> with Ruby and Adhearsion, but the problem
> was that it always lives in a box behind a
> firewall. When I had to stick my
> application outside the firewall, I had
> to write Ruby and integrate it into
> VoiceXML from Voxeo…

I’m really curious to hear more about that. Why pay Voxeo 10-15 cents per minute instead of building my apps on top of Asterisk/Adhearsion for a fraction of that?

Sure, a platform like Voxeo will scale without extra work, but when the time comes, wouldn’t the effort put into scaling with Asterisk/Adhearsion pay off?

Or, is the straight “Asterisk/Adhearsion” approach nice in theory but a just not workable in a production environment with lots of users?

Anyway, maybe CloudVox will make the question irrelevant anyway. It certainly sounds compelling. Hopefully, they’ll open it up soon so I can check it out.