Hi HN. I built a tool for international calls and for a full month I built what felt right to me.
But then I started getting emails from users with feedback about features and I wanted a better way to gather feedback.
I started looking for feedback collection tools. Got a few suggestions but I didn't want to spend 30 minutes integrating a third party tool.
Mostly because my users would have to go at a third place to post feedback.
I wanted somehting more direct so I prompted claude to build somehing similar to insignto by marclou but inside my app.
40 minutes later I had my own in-app tool to gather feedback.
And 24 hours after launch I got my first user feedback on the in-app tool
Lesson learned: even a tiny feedback loop beats building in isolation.
Future plan: I think feedback collection is crucial and I want to build something simple and fast for other developers to gather in-app feedback / feature requests. Maybe publishing it as an npm package will be best? I'll think about it and see where this takes me.
Checkout callspark if you want to make cheap international calls with no installs, and no subscriptions.
I was confused because the lasts version of Skype had video too.
Here most of the people just use WhatsApp, WhatsApp, WhatsApp. I?m not sure how easy is to make a mobile to landline call in WhatsApp, but landlines are disappearing..
So app to app calls are different thing. Both parties needs to have same app installed.
https://callspark.app let's you call any number without an app, imagine international student wants to call a university and universities do not have their number on wahtsapp.
Imagine you have to call IRS or something like your bank support number they sure don't have whatsapp.
Landline is not disappearing.
I used Skype and other app like this a long time ago. My bank here in Argentina has a WhatsApp number, they are pushing it, probably because it's cheaper (I think they have a bot, and I'm not sure if you can escalate to a human. I use the phone anyway, because all the easy task are solved in the webpage/app, and if I call it's probably something weird. They have a bot in the telephone line anyway, but if you press the correct menu items you can get a human eventually.)
I resolved this problem. Now I have installed 600w LEDs in high beams. I only use them when the opposite side blinds me with theirs. One flash is enough to get them to go low beam.
But then I started getting emails from users with feedback about features and I wanted a better way to gather feedback. I started looking for feedback collection tools. Got a few suggestions but I didn't want to spend 30 minutes integrating a third party tool.
Mostly because my users would have to go at a third place to post feedback. I wanted somehting more direct so I prompted claude to build somehing similar to insignto by marclou but inside my app.
40 minutes later I had my own in-app tool to gather feedback. And 24 hours after launch I got my first user feedback on the in-app tool
Lesson learned: even a tiny feedback loop beats building in isolation.
Future plan: I think feedback collection is crucial and I want to build something simple and fast for other developers to gather in-app feedback / feature requests. Maybe publishing it as an npm package will be best? I'll think about it and see where this takes me.
Checkout callspark if you want to make cheap international calls with no installs, and no subscriptions.
Cheers!