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SignalWire
Company blog · signalwire.com/blogsprogrammingbusiness
SignalWire is the company blog at signalwire.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2018, 12 different Hacker News readers have linked it 15 times, most often “SignalWire – Build with the OGs”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (10) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link SignalWire as a Twilio alternative for messaging, voice and video APIs, pointing to its pricing and product pages. Commenters also note its connection to the FreeSWITCH open-source project.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 10 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Build AI voice agents, contact centers, and unified communications on one programmable platform. One control plane, no vendor stitching.
Most-linked posts?
- SignalWire – Build with the OGs2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-04-15
- /pricing/messaging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2020-06-24
What Hacker News says?
https://SignalWire.com | Sr. Product Mgr - Collaboration Products | REMOTE (North America) With a fresh $11.5m in the bank + tracking on good revenue and greenfield market opportunities in front of us, we’re looking for awesome individuals like you to join us! We are the Original Geeks (OGs) in communication. Our founders come from the largest open source communications project this planet has ever known. We eat our…
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on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (September 2019)”Submitted SignalWire – Build with the OGs as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSignalWire's SDK is another option and it uses an MCU instead of SFU: https://signalwire.com/products/cloud-video
Comment linking /products/cloud-video
on “Enhanced noise suppression in Jitsi Meet”Submitted Don't Just “Write Documentation” as a story · 2 points
HN discussionWhile this does not resolve your current issue. Have a look at https://signalwire.com its from the same people who created FreeSWITCH.
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on “Twilio blocked our account and with it hundreds of our customers [resolved]”Submitted Deutsche Telekom Invests in SignalWire as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSignalWire is also a Twilio competitor. Their SMS pricing is much, much cheaper and they have cloned the Twilio APIs. I am not affiliated with them, other than as a customer of both Twilio and SignalWire at different times (small dev accounts.) https://signalwire.com/pricing/messaging
Comment linking /pricing/messaging
on “Twilio’s Dutch rival MessageBird plans an IPO”Submitted OG or not OG? That is the question as a story · 1 points
HN discussionHey! I'd naturally recommend SignalWire (as one of the founders over there.) We have a full messaging + voice + video APIs, including a Twilio-compatible API just for people who need to switch. We're backed by companies like Deutsche Telekom, T-Mobile, and Samsung so we know how to make telecom infra! https://signalwire.com/products/cloud-messaging We're also the folks behind the open-source FreeSWITCH framework tha…
Comment linking /products/cloud-messaging
on “Twilio’s toll fraud problem”I have had good experience with https://signalwire.com/ I run a few projects that interact with their API for SMS. I recently had to go through some extra hoops to 'verify my business' with them, due to the newer carrier regulations. But overall, works how I expect it to and with minimal issues.
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on “FCC Threatens to Disconnect Twilio for Illegal Robocalls”No, it's not. If you use Twilio, maybe, but there are many other options today, one of them being SignalWire [0]. Another being Plivo [1]. [0]: https://signalwire.com/pricing/messaging [1]: https://www.plivo.com/pricing/
Comment linking /pricing/messaging
on “Using your SIM card for MFA when logging in to an SSH server”What is your use case, exactly? Are you trying to do some complex programmable telephony, or just make/receive calls across your personal devices? If the latter, I think just having an iPhone and iPad or Mac will let you natively do that: https://support.apple.com/en-lamr/102405 without needing to route the call through some rando internet service. Otherwise, there's still Google Voice, but the call quality (last I…
Comment linking /use-cases/voip
on “Ask HN: Is there a better VoIP provider than Skype?”The webpage they push you to in the Press Release has the prices: https://signalwire.com/laml-apis
Comment linking /laml-apis
on “SignalWire Launches Twilio Alternative with Disruptive Pricing”* FreeSwitch Messaging API - https://signalwire.com/pricing/messaging Can/will do the trick for fractions of a penny... B) Check their UseCases... * https://signalwire.com/products/cloud-messaging#message-use-... Also, if you're a real PBX nerd, check Asterisk.org which pre-dates and may have sparked if/not powered early-Twilio.
Comment linking /products/cloud-messaging
on “I Built an SMS Gateway with a $20 Android Phone – Jonno.nz”
