The service is ad-supported, so we need to know about user as much as possible to target ads. The ads will be interactive flash applications shown while user is on call.
The problem with .com domain is known: there no more unregistered domains left and all decent names are taken by moro^H^H^H^Hclever guys, which they sell starting from $5000. We developed service on a very tight budged, so we could not afford such expense on domain name.
Adobe Flash player always asks user to permit access to microphone, there's no way to overcome this "issue".
By poor design do you mean design of the website or the app itself or both ? :-)
I'm no expert, but screw ad support for this app. You're not going to get enough page views and in order to get targeted information you have to ask a lot for a lot of intrusive information up front.
You can provide free long distance? A lot of people would love to use this. But don't make it free. Make it, I don't know, $4.99/mo. Makes the whole thing seem more legit and you solve the money issue. And you can hire a designer ;)
Have you ever tried to charge end-users ? We are doing this on gtalk2voip.com for past two years. I can tell you it's a bitch! We are trying to get rid of this model soon as possible. I don't advise to any other startup to step into this crap as we did.
There are a lot many problems, starting from all kinds of frauds and ending with offering $1000 support for each $5 paid, esp if you are in voip industry where connectivity problems happen just out of thin air. If I manage to find a spare minute, I'll try to put together all the things into another essay. I put my essays on http://www.gtalk2voip.com/essays, just if someone cares.
Although, admittedly, that would mildly conflict with the version that has an E in the name, which appears to be an ad spam site, which would only encourage the domain owner to hold on to it (since it would start making more money thanks to you).
But I suspect that freeringer.biz would have this same effect on the .com.
The service is ad-supported, so we need to know about user as much as possible to target ads. The ads will be interactive flash applications shown while user is on call.
The problem with .com domain is known: there no more unregistered domains left and all decent names are taken by moro^H^H^H^Hclever guys, which they sell starting from $5000. We developed service on a very tight budged, so we could not afford such expense on domain name.
Adobe Flash player always asks user to permit access to microphone, there's no way to overcome this "issue".
By poor design do you mean design of the website or the app itself or both ? :-)
Thanks again.