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How will you make money from this?

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I'm not the author, but off the top of my head:

* Audio recording and storage

* Speech -> text for transcripts

* Fax/email results to those who didn't attend

* Embedded meeting agenda in the web interface

* Voting app that participants can use during the conference

Good ideas. With Twilio I can easily do the recording and the transcribing, and build my own mailer for the emailing. Not sure how many people would use the fax thing, though, probably business execs but that is not my main market.

Well when I think conference calls I think business execs, but maybe that's just me. :-p

For sure, but I would use conference calls to talk with my twitter followers, or collaborate with clients (I used to freelance for a while).

Don't worry about faxes yet; not even business execs use them these days, plus there are http/smtp gateways for fax.

If/when I move to Twilio, I might charge a (very) small amount to power users. Twilio isn't really that expensive and I'm not interested in profiting from the app in the near future. Dropio is as hands-off as it gets, so I hope I can achieve the same level of simplicity with Twilio.

Can I ask what your using now? I haven't found many alternatives to Twilio. --> Ah, found below that your using drop.io, no idea they offered phone stuff :).

> I might charge a reasonable amount to power users.

Fixed your typo. ;)

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