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"
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! 😘
@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 :)
There's really not a whole lot of details on the site, the app page or here for that matter. It sounds like several other tools on the market. Maybe you can explain a bit about it
@hgottfried hey! yep, one of hardest things about explaining Listen to new users is that it *sounds* like other products. but what we're really doing is redefining what it means to be a phone number.
everyone who builds a phone service builds voice with a set of expected behaviors and we believe some of those expected behaviors are wrong. that's why we let you disable voicemail or mute a contact or receive calls as push notifications. a lot of people don't like phone calls so why shove calls in their face? if we *have* to have a phone number for things like; making a doctor appointment, calling a loved one, receiving verification texts for login-why not try to make it behave better and give users more control?
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