Well, we did it... we built yet another Skype alternative...
A little late to the party but it's actually been 8 months in the making.
Back in Feb when Pieter posted about Skype shutting down my co-founder Mitya and I decided to jump on it.
We registered the domain in March and quickly whipped together and MVP.
The MVP sucked and we weren't feeling very inspired. To be honest, at the time I kinda felt like a poser just doing whatever everyone else is doing.
So we did what good founders do and shelved in our graveyard of unfinished projects.
About a month ago I was feeling restless one day and decided to take another crack at it.
Totally locked it and hardly left from my computer for days.
Sent it to Mitya to show him I've been a busy little boy and he loved this version. Boom! We started shipping.
I realize a bunch of other people have jumped on this already so we're a bit behind but we are absolutely cranking on this now.
Already have a few organic paid users (which is wild) and built some really cool features.
You can call 200 countries, buy credits, buy numbers (local & toll-free), toggle btwn numbers, call history/stats, store/import contacts, and overall just focused on creating a really amazing UI/UX.
I'm super proud of what we've built so far. Honestly, even if we're not the biggest or the winner or whatever, as long as some people use this I will be stoked.
I've been an expat for 7 years now so this one is kinda near and dear for me and very fun to work on. I'll drop the link below for anyone who wants to check it out
Skype ceases to exist in 2 months
Me and my friends still use Skype regularly if we need to make international phone calls, not online calls, but PHONE calls, like calling US IRS or smth
I wouldn't know where else to do that
I can't use my phone for it cause would be super expensive
Spinning up a basic website that works on laptop and mobile, that charges credits (not free!) and lets you voice calls anywhere probably gets you to $1M ARR in no time I think
And there's 100% an API out there that already does that so all you need to build is a front end
<title>{brandName} - A Skype alternative to call international numbers worldwide</title>
And you have 2 months to build it cause then Skype ceases to exist!