Show HN: Skype is closing down, I built a replacement
zippcall.comYou may have heard Microsoft is closing down Skype in a month: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43202052#43202881
As someone originally from the UK who spends a significant amount of time in Morocco, I constantly faced the challenge of making affordable and straightforward calls back home, especially to essential services like my bank or credit card company - Skype always made it easier for me with their outgoing to calls to a regular phone number. I used Skype 2/3 times a week.
When I heard they were closing down, and saw a post by @levelsio on X, I put my head to creating a replacement, and here it is: https://www.zippcall.com
It allows you to make international calls from your web-browser to regular phones (landline or mobile/cell) in any country.
Nice idea. What number shows at the receivers phone?
Atm I have a pool of US and Canada +1 numbers that get randomly rotated to show as the caller ID.
I want to keep it as simple as possible but toying with the idea of letting people add their number as the caller ID, it would involve number verification with an automated call to setup so need to see if it's what people would want?