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Twilio's API allows you to create ad-hoc telephone conferences really easily

Hey HN, just thought I'd share a little toy project I put together over the weekend. It's basically just ChatRoulette over the phone. Pretty sure its only appeal will be novelty, but it was one of the ideas I had when I was toying around with Twilio's API, so voila.

One idea I had for making it more interesting/useful was allowing you to select a "category" or "location" so that you could be randomly paired with people from the same location or people with similar interests. Any thoughts?

1. I launched it this morning, so no, I haven't made any money off of it yet.

2. I worked on it part-time for 2 weeks. I'd say it was about 4-5 full days to put together but a lot of that time was spent learning new technologies/APIs I hadn't used before.

The tech used to build it are on the FAQ page: Tornado Redis Twilio Google URL Shortener ReCAPTCHA Mako Templates jQuery SimpleModal IcoJoy WinningTheme

This was just a quick side project, so I didn't research too heavily any alternatives. I've never seen Jott before, but from a cursory glance the differences are:

Jott has a monthly fee whereas Call2Record is pay as you go.

Jott is probably much more expensive unless you record a lot of audio ($4/month and $12/month compared to $1/hour)

Jott limits you to recording only up to 30 seconds of audio at a time whereas Call2Record will allow you to record for an unlimited amount of time.

Jott seems to have a bunch of other extra services and features that are built around and compliment their product.

Thanks! I need to change my account to accept international calls to make sure that you can use it.

I agree it's a pretty niche application that most technical users wouldn't find a use for. Very interesting suggestion about a voice contact form. I agree it might be really useful for interacting with a less technical user base.

I'll probably make the service completely free if it doesn't see any uptake.

hi HN! I put this together to toy around with some new technologies that I hadn't played with before.

It's a service for recording audio directly to 'the cloud' with any mobile phone.