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Comment · 3 years ago
Love the the bridge! Looking forward to your email!
Comment · 3 years ago
Love this!

I have built a small business to solve a similar problem for Property Managers: to manage all their phone-based intercoms (Doorking, LiftMaster, etc.) in one easy-to-use (and patented) SAAS UI. I did work with a similar integrators like RemoteLock.com (but love your approach a lot more).

Would love to work with you, check it out at www.DropBy.io and feel free to reach out to me at [email protected]

Again, great great idea!

Comment · 3 years ago
Very useful to know, thanks for explaining more. I am curious to know (if you happen to remember) if this was an off-the-shelf product, and if so which one? I assume the product was either an MFA device or an SSH/SSO solution or both.
Comment · 3 years ago
My experience (over maybe 10 years of using SSH-CAs) was similar, I mean by using long-term key pairs (mostly for humans) and shorter certificates. I can imagine secretive to be a very useful tool for SSH-CAs and other uses. I also like the fact that you can't import a key, makes it pretty clear that A- it's a specific device, and B- there is a human adding their bio info to unlock it.
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you!
Comment · 4 years ago
Great suggestion about the video, thank you!

I described it above for previous comment but basically we program all the units to call our phone numbers. And then we process these calls in the cloud, record, forward, log, etc.. interface between intercom and us is phone line.

Comment · 4 years ago
Cool. Always great to hear what people tried to do with these intercoms. I played with Arduino myself a lot for similar reasons. Thanks for sharing.

It’s simple actually. We program all the units to call our cloud phone numbers. These numbers are shared among all US customers, so service is cheap to run. Also we got a patent in how we process these calls.

We then process, record, forward, these calls to their destinations. And also we send text message updates for certain events.

Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you Will fix!

I’m still doing it on the side, but I did get some help from others over the years. Mainly some friends put some $ and got 2 other great partners helping me also on the side. One is in the property management business which is very helpful. He came first as a customer.

Comment · 4 years ago
Without changing any hardware (e.g. DoorKing intercom) get:

- Full logs - Call recordings - Change tenant's phones any time - Add more than one tenant per unit

Disclaimer: this is my business/project.

Comment · 4 years ago
Comment · 4 years ago
Added pricing back, thanks again for the feedback!
Comment · 4 years ago
We removed pricing, one reseller wanted that out. But good point, I think we should add it again and be transparent since his business is good but not good enough to do so.

What happened when you git Sign up?

Thanks a bunch for the feedback!

Comment · 4 years ago
I retrofit old phone-based intercoms with software-only solution: https://www.DropBy.io

a bit above $500/month ARR, stable and sticky. Started a few years ago, now have 2 other partners.

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