Dev tools · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio
I wrote this over the last couple of weeks using Rails 3, Twilio and a variety of Gems, putting in about 2 hours per day. I'd love any feedback from the HN community on any aspects of the site (design, API construction, documentation, marketing, pricing which is TBD). On a related note: I have to say that I'm really flying with Rails 3. Typically I roll with Django, but have been super impressed with the Rails 3. Feels really clean, and there are some Gems that make the more mundane parts of the webapp construction fun and agile: Haml/Sass, blueprint, Fancy-buttons, Devise. I'll probably…
Phoneify is a web application built with Rails 3 and Twilio that enables phone functionality integration. The tool is designed for developers seeking to add phone capabilities to their projects. It was developed… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Phoneify - 20 hours with Rails 3 & Twilio launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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2010 · txt2ping.com · its alternatives →
- 2NW
My buddy paulsingh and I have been working on this for a few weeks, got something up and running and wanted to show you. The problem we're solving: When you need customer service (your flight got canceled, strange fees on your bill, etc) you just want to talk to a real person. Waiting on hold wastes your time AND your concentration; you can't be coding in the zone when part of your brain is waiting for an operator. Our solution: We wanted to make it "one click" to reach a real person. How it works: You click on who you want to talk to (even a specific department, like the billing dept at…
2011 · fastcustomer.com · its alternatives →
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Phone verification at no cost (Deprecated). Contribute to natsu90/dial2verify-twilio development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 4
Telebugs▲391Hey hackers! In January 2025, I started building Telebugs. It's an installable error tracker that works with Sentry SDKs. I come from a Rails background and previously worked at an error tracking/APM company, so I figured: why not build my own? I wanted a simple, reliable tool I could own outright, without surprise bills for overages. Telebugs is built with Rails 8, Hotwire, TailwindCSS, and SQLite. Like 37signals’ ONCE products (my inspiration), it’s pay-once: prep your hardware, run one command, and you’ll be up and running in 10 minutes (5 minutes refers to the actual installation…
2025 · telebugs.com · its alternatives →
- 5AT
2020 · capiche.fm · its alternatives →
- 6KM
http://kitify.com I'd love to get HN's feedback on Kitify (http://kitify.com), a new service I built. Kitify makes it easy for DIY project writers to document, share and sell kits for their projects. I built Kitify because DIY is fun and a great way to learn, but actually getting the parts together for many projects is a pain; I want to solve that. This is my first Rails project. I knew how to write simple PHP scripts before this, but I had no exposure to Rails - or MVC or, actually, anything meaningfully involving objects. I had the idea for Kitify months ago, but wasn't able to move it…
2012 · kitify.com · its alternatives →
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Twilio Engage▲123Build hyper-personalized end-to-end marketing campaigns
2021 · twilio.com · its alternatives →
- 8AV
2017 · thisnumber.rocks · its alternatives →
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Twilio Notify▲150One API to orchestrate notifications across SMS, push & more
2016 · twilio.com · its alternatives →
- 10AL
A buddy and I decided to hack on this little project this weekend, putting in about 12 hours. It's running Ruby on Rails, deployed to Heroku. We tried to keep things super lean with different gems handling user accounts, mailchimp for an email list and super lean styling/layout. Everything should work well enough on mobile devices, too, so give it a look! Right now the magic all happens via the Soundcloud API (of course), but we're exploring different ways to make this appeal to a broader audience of music listeners. We'd love your feedback! Here's the site:…
2014 · its alternatives →
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Hey it's Andrew - author of https://www.crowdwave.com here! - crowdwave works best on your phone - unless you've got your headset and microphone plugged in to your desktop, in which case desktop works great too. Here's the story: So about six months ago I saw this post on HN https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39910119 https://afterthebeep.tel is really cool - it's an anonymous voicemail box - you call the provided phone the number and leave a message. Blaine - the guy who runs the site (eventually) listens to and approves your message and writes a…
2024 · crowdwave.com · its alternatives →
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Zernio▲60Hey HN, I'm Pau. We've been building Zernio for the past 9 months and we just crossed $1M in ARR (bootstrapped). Zernio is a unified API for social platforms. One API for Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, LinkedIn, X, and 9 others. Today we're adding WhatsApp. We've spent 3 weeks just getting a test message to send. Meta requires a developer app, a WhatsApp Business Account inside Business Manager, business verification (2-14 days), phone number OTP, webhook configuration with a two-step subscription, and token management for tokens that die every 60 days. Miss one step and messages vanish with no…
Mar 2026 · zernio.com · its alternatives →
- 13MF
2012 · themescroller.com · its alternatives →
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Connect salespeople to clients with security and compliance
2022 · support.twilio.com · its alternatives →
- 1544
@andrewacove and i built this in a few hours at the apihackday. if you like it tweet it up. this is mostly for fun, but it should translate any phrase to the best of the twilio transcription service.
2010 · its alternatives →
- 16AB
Video introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UwZcM62Dc Link: https://www.teletyped.com/ Hey HN! My brother and I worked on this UI for ChatGPT, Claude, LLama 3, and Mistral models. Our features: - Full text search across all your chats - Saved chats - Switch models mid-chat - Edit model outputs and continue generating, or save model responses for longer prompt engineering - Temporary chats - Edit model creativity (temperature) - Different color themes On our roadmap: - Upload pdf files + photos (we know this an important one and plan to support in…
2024 · its alternatives →
- 17OA
2011 · shoutatweet.com · its alternatives →
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Twilert Twitter Alerts and Monitoring System - Monitor Twitter 24/7 with Twilert's professional twitter alerts and notification system. Never miss a mention for your brand or business.
2014 · twilert.com · its alternatives →
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Everify▲69SMS verification made dead-simple, secure and cheap.
2021 · everify.dev · its alternatives →
- 20IM
I built a little script that gives me a fake phone call to escape boring and awkward situations. I bought a virtual number from twilio and saved it as one of my relatives. Whenever I feel stuck, I just tap a button called “ESCAPE” on my phone. It sends a request to my remote server. The server runs a small Python script which schedules an actual call. After a minute, my phone rings and plays a pre-recorded audio. I simply say “sorry, I’m getting a call” and walk away. A tiny project, but it has saved me so many times. Script -…
2025 · its alternatives →
- 21LR
Hi HN! I've been building this solo for about three and a half years. I kept trying every new project/notes tool (Notion, Asana, Trello, etc.) and always ended up back in a plain text file. I wanted something that felt like a text editor on first touch but could grow into real structure when you needed it. https://lightwave.so (desktop only) The tech stack is Laravel, MySQL, Redis, and hand-rolled JavaScript on the client. No frameworks like React/Vue/etc. ~270 lines of jQuery (out of 80k+ total LOC) for a few legacy DOM utilities, plus IndexedDB for local…
Feb 2026 · its alternatives →
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Hey guys, Just finished up hacking on my submission for the Wufoo API contest. VoiceForms 4000 takes any existing Wufoo form and turns it into a phone survey. The app is written in Python, runs on App Engine, and uses Twilio for all the phone magic. https://voiceforms4000.appspot.com/ Go ahead and fill one of the sample forms and tell me what you think. Enjoy.
2010 · voiceforms4000.appspot.com · its alternatives →
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What I built: Bonjournal, a travel journal app - iOS app (https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/bonjournal/id719266933) - web app (https://bonjourn.al) What and how I learned (in order of importance): * Ruby on Rails * - Michael Hartl's Ruby On Rails Tutorial - Railscast - Code School - Ruby Toolbox * Objective-C * - Nerd Ranch iOS Programming - NSScreencast - Code School - WWDC Videos (for performance improvements) - CocoaPods Rank (https://gist.github.com/luvtechno/8842522) And of course, a lot of Stack Overflow. I didn't think it would…
2014 · its alternatives →
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