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Listen — A smart phone number
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@_jacksmith hey! latest update fixes incoming call errors. let me know if that works! <3
Working alongside the Listen team for the past 6 months, I am very excited for today's launch. I put my Listen # on my biz card and the idea of managing a phone number like a social stream makes a lot more sense in 2016 than the traditional carrier way that acts like a pop up when your phone rings.
Love what @laurenleto & team have done with Listen. Was glad to be part of the beta launch and they listened to feedback. Lauren, I had no clue that you could have it installed on two phones and get it to ring at the same time. Might wanna highlight this feature. SMBs/Support teams would happily pay a couple of bucks for just this feature. Regardless Im glad to see an alternative to Google Voice.
@laurenleto + @camh + @austenito Congrats on the successful launch! Excited to see where Listen goes from here. So far this feels like what Google Voice should have been.
I think this is legit awesome! Love the concept and love the design. I believe I'll be using this right away! Really shocked it's not upvoted more today. Just Brilliant!
Very glad to see a team taking on G Voice with a passionate interest on redefining the phone number experience. More innovation in this space is a great thing!
Hi Product Hunt-ers,
I’ve spent the last eight years working on text and voice products. We launched Listen today, our solution to the many ways our current phone numbers fail us. I hope you get as excited as I am when you try Listen.
Thanks!
@laurenleto fantastic! Can you please add one feature that everyday i wish my phone had?: Status.
Basically I'll set my status to "meeting", for example, so that incoming calls from my inner circle receive an auto-responder, kind of "Soufian is in a meeting"
@malihsoufian Yup! That's how auto-response works–we've been thinking about renaming it to 'Busy mode' though–status is also good!
Hey, love this idea, congrats on the launch! One question a friend of mine had when I showed this to him: What sort of data-protection do you guys offer? You guys are potentially sitting on a data mining goldmine, and I think that skeptics would feel better if they knew their call logs and such were safe.
@shortformernie Data is transferred to and from the client with TLS. Our database is encrypted at rest by using AES-256, block-level storage encryption. Keys are managed by Amazon, the individual volume keys are stable for the lifetime of the volume.
All calls, texts, and media are deleted from Twilio via their Delete API see https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014...
BUT Unfortunately we can't ensure security of SMS because it travels through many other companies. We can't change that.
However, we plan to build end-to-end encryption for users who are talking to other Listen users.
Looks great! I've been using Google Voice since day 1 and it still works like it did back then, seems like Google forgot the thing even exists! My number: 858-346-5195
This is awesome!
Feature request I've wanted for regular text messages for years:
Scheduled texts. I occasionally need to text someone something I think of in the middle of the night but don't want to disturb them after hours.
Current workaround for me is a reminder on my phone but scheduling would be ideal
The features that have kept me using Google Voice for years are email notification, voicemail transcription and porting my main number to GV. Any suggestions on how I can make Listen my replacement for GV?
@israelvicars Hi! We're working on ability to port. We're also adding in VM transcription soon, but email notification might not be until early next year. :( I hope you still keep an eye on us!
@austenito @camh @laurenleto FYI uselisten.com has a horrible WOT score https://www.mywot.com/en/scoreca...
@laurenleto @austenito @camh Here is the FAQ for domain ownership change https://www.mywot.com/en/faq/sit...
Great product! Quick question for you though. Will you eventually add the ability to delete/close the account if it becomes not needed? And also the ability to change or get a different number?
@wilparker82 adding ability to delete account but we think 'changing' # might be a paid feature
Texting or calling a traditional phone number is still the best way to get in touch with someone (if you know their number) but it's still trapped in old tech. Love the idea of wrapping a phone number within an app to give people more control and features, but continue to support traditional means of communication for those that don't have the app (yet).
Here's my number: 541-236-9102. Text me! 😘
@rrhoover Your crazy for posting your number... Good thing Listen has auto-response 
When will it have call block for spam calls??!!!
When will it have call block for spam calls??!!!@parkerwoodward @rrhoover If you use Listen we have a default setting where contacts ring your phone 'like normal' (read: full screen) and people who are NOT in your contact book ring your phone as push notifications. So spam calls are in no way as intrusive when you're on your phone–plus you can mute them afterward and never see a call from that number again :)
@laurenleto That's cool...just hard to ignore all the robo calls, you can mute 1,000 and still get just as many calls, would be nice to mute one and then label as a robo call so other Listen users would benefit...food for thought :)
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