Callblock is the first app that lets you stop telemarketing phone calls in iOS (https://techcrunch.com/2016/09/07/callblocks-new-ios-app-will-block-calls-from-over-2-million-telemarketers/), with the world’s biggest directory of telemarketers – now over 3,000,000 classified entries from over 100 countries!
Our team likes to block annoying stuff! (See also https://www.producthunt.com/post....) When we caught at WWDC that programmatic call screening might be possible in iOS 10, we jumped. Alas, the new VoIP parts of iOS were too buggy at launch to screen telemarketing calls. We’ve been helping Apple debug since, though, and are glad to be able to share Callblock now that you can actually use the app to block telemarketers – more than 3,000,000 in the version we’re releasing today.
App Store guidelines prevent us from offering a Product Hunt–only discount, so we’ve made Callblock free for everybody to try for a month instead. Tell us what you think!
@oldestlivingboy@rocketship, @callblockapp, @adblockfast Where do I get such a list of the numbers to block from? I could seriously use some telemarketer blocking in my own startup which generates customer calls to local businesses all over, but has the sad side effect of bringing oodles of telemarketer calls along with it. I don't have an IOS app, I just use Twilio for call forwarding.
This would be very helpful.
PRETTY PLEASE AND IT'S ACTUALLY MY BIRTHDAY. :)
@zak_kinion The telemarketer directory is something of Callblock’s secret sauce, but we have a few bits about how we compiled the entries in our faq: https://callblockapp.com/#faq
Happy birthday! 🎂
@oldestlivingboy Thanks for the bday wishes!
Yeah, I imagined it was something like that. One could screen scrape sites those "number lookup" sites that are seo spammed all over and then of course add to the list from private sources and especially from customers "reporting" numbers by tapping that its a telemarketer. It'd be near impossible to grow up that kind of db organically from scratch.
You should know that the ability to build and continuously improve a db like that, that can be used across many different solutions is probably far more valuable than just an iOS app. Something to keep in mind.
Best of luck to you.
@oldestlivingboy Not your customer/contact data, that'd be a terrible thing to do. :)
I was referring to the unique ability to create a constantly updated and most importantly accurate db of telemarketers. Think more along the lines of: all the white listing and black listing that used to go into spam email filtering, but applied to phone numbers instead. That alone, is very powerful.
Was really looking forward to using this as I get a tonne of spam calls every day.
But having the app free to download and then do literally nothing until you pay for the monthly subscription. That is not free.
Shame....
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